Read Facebook in in Spanish and German Now
Feb 07, 2008 | Categorized Under: Web | | CommentsFacebook has released its site in Spanish and German language version. The French language will be the next to follow. Nearly 1,500 Spanish-speaking users on Facebook chose to be part of the effort and translated the site from English to Spanish in less than four weeks.
Current users who want to view Facebook in Spanish can change their language preference from their account settings. Beginning on Monday, Feb. 11, any person who goes Facebook website from a Spanish-speaking country will see the site in Spanish. Facebook currently has more than 2.8 million active users in Latin America and Spain.
According to the Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg, over 60 percent of Facebook users are now outside of the U.S., and many live in countries where English is not the primary language. He says that their goal has always been to allow people to use Facebook in their native language so we built an application to enable users to participate in translating the site into their local languages and dialects.