Chinese Facebook Coming Soon?
bazza
June 05, 2008, 09:53 PM posted in General DiscussionFacebook's languages now include: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Japanese and Korean.
Surely Chinese will be next?
I think Korean was only added today, I don't think it was there yesterday.
nitrox
July 01, 2008, 07:07 PMI tested the availability of facebook using this link:
http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html
It doesn't seem to be blocked. But I don't know how reliably this link works.
bazza
May 24, 2008, 09:44 AMThere's still 533 phrases left to translation for 中文（简体）. I've translated 4 easy ones. :)
bazza
May 25, 2008, 10:14 AMI've translated 30 phrases now. :)
bazza
May 30, 2008, 06:09 AM364 phrases left to complete now, and then there's the voting phrase to be completed. So it's probably going to be another week or so yet.
hitokiri6993
May 30, 2008, 06:43 AMI think I should help out with the 中文 （臺灣 / 香港）。 It's going to be a hard time for me reading Facebook in all 簡體字。 :P
bazza
May 30, 2008, 08:41 AMThey could use the same process to translate this site into 中文. :)
bazza
May 23, 2008, 10:48 PMThere's a translations application for users to help with the translations, you can suggest new translations and vote on existing ones. http://www.facebook.com/translations/
bazza
June 05, 2008, 11:52 PM中文（简体） Facebook is now down to 195 phrases left to translate.
The best bit about the app is you can actually use Facebook in 中文 and it's works fine even though it's not officially complete.
bazza
June 21, 2008, 10:50 AMIt's now complete and available for everyone to use. :)
boran
June 21, 2008, 11:47 AMI recently read an article that talked about Friendster being the largest social networking site in China. This was surprising since Friendster stopped being relevant in the U.S. many years ago (replaced by MySpace then Facebook). It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I don't remember the original article but here's a similar one:
Friendster’s growth in Asia could make it the top social network in the world, once again
RJ
June 21, 2008, 12:15 PMAn interesting offshoot of facebook is http://facestat.com/
if you have thick skin send your photo out for evaluation by at least 40 other people in terms of attractiveness, age, and other features.
bazza
July 01, 2008, 05:56 PMThere's reports that Facebook might be blocked in China now. Can anyone confirm this?
man2toe
June 05, 2008, 11:02 PMThat is an awesome application (應用程式) Bazza. Thank you for sharing.
and, I second Bazza's thought on how we can get this site translated. I would love to have this site in Chinese again!
henning
May 23, 2008, 02:06 PMIn Germany Facebook is not nearly as popular as in the states. Most people I know use www.xing.com; a service that is primarily designed for a more professional context. Among others there are Chinese and English versions. Surprisingly there are quite a few Chinese in there, mostly from people working for a German company or a supplier. There is also something called www.studievz.net, which is more the domain of kiddies and young students.