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# Sunday, August 30, 2009

Facebook language FAIL and Upside down English?

I did a Google search for “Facebook birthday notifications” and clicked the first link, which was this:

http://blog.facebook.jp/blog.php?post=38780477130

image You know what happens when you click that link? Your Facebook UI is now all in Japanese. Usability FAIL. Now how do I fix that since I can’t read Japanese?

Do another Google search for “Facebook change language” and got this page:

http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?language

and I found this in there:

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How is this useful?

Note: if you do a Bing search for “Facebook birthday notifications” you get an English page. Yay Bing.

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Facebook birthday emails get spruced up with HTML

Interesting that Facebook is now sending out HTML emails. For the past few years they have sent plain text emails only. This made the Birthday reminder emails they send out look particularly bad. However, this morning I was greeted with this:

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I wonder if this is a sign of things to come.

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