via WikipediaThe popular social network
Facebook has launched on Thursday its long-awaited Chinese edition,
reports the research group Pacific Epoch.
Once users log in, they will see the site in whichever language they had been previously used; Chinese is the default language for new users in China. Facebook presumably used its translation project, through which its users voluntarily help translate the site, for the simplified Chinese version.
Facebooks is tremendous popular in the US and elsewhere, claiming already up to 80 million participants. But US internet companies like
Yahoo and
Google have done rather bad on the China market. Also Facebook will meet already powerful domestic competition and potential regulatory resistance when it enters the market.
via WikipediaThe popular social network Facebook has launched on Thursday its long-awaited Chinese edition, reports the research group Pacific Epoch.
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Let's hope Facebook doesn't collude with the Chinese authorities in their Internet censorship practices.
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"Once users log in, they will see the site in whichever language they had been previously used; Chinese is the default language for new users in China."
It doesn't seem to be working that way on the log in page. Hope they work out the kinks there, as my wife was pissed when she got a Chinese log in page all of the sudden last week. Been back and forth with the Help Desk on this one.
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