Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net
"Maligayang pagdating sa Tagalog na Facebook."
The extremely popular social networking site Facebook has switched on its Tagal
og version catering to the site's growing Filipino user base.
The Tagalog version effectively expands Facebook's language options to 34 (seve
n are still in beta phase).
Most of the services and options in the Tagalog version of Facebook are transla
ted into the vernacular, with only a few exceptions. The Home, Inbox and Profil
e tabs remain in English and all English messages and posts sent by users' frie
nds' list will not be translated.
Many Filipino uses have already started using the Tagalog version of Facebook,
sending messages to other users in Tagalog, as well as posting on Walls and Pok
es.
One example: "Ano ginagawa mo ngayon? roughly translates "What are you doing?"
-- a question posed by Facebook which users can fill in with short messages.
Facebook is also encouraging Filipino users to invite others to use the Tagalog
version.
Facebook is one of the fastest growing social networking sites worldwide. It cu
rrently has over 110 million users who are utilizing about 24,000 applications,
many of which are developed and contributed by users.
Facebook now in Filipino
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Hello! Why tagalog? Suddenly facebook seems unattractive.
sana may dialect din noh? :P
Tagalog?Why Unattractive?
i think having a filipino version of facebook is ok. I dont see any reason why
people wouldn't like that.
Hi---Faebook in Tagalog version? Really?---naku--- iwan ko kung cool or not coo
l--
Let's see..maybe, it's different--so I say? why not?
Why do they have to make a Tagalog version eh marunong naman tayo mag English??
?
We're not like other countries na baluktot sila mag english kaya kailangan nila
ng version sa sarili nila na language.
Is this a form of DISCRIMINATION wherein we should stick to our own?
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"LIBRO NG MGA MUKHA" (Facebook)
"KAIBIGANER" (Friendster)
Ano ba tagalog ng "Multiply"???
Actually, it's a good idea to translate Facebook into Tagalog:-) (though medyo
nalilito ako nang gamitin ko ito for the first time, that's why I went back to
the English platform). A contact of mine, American, said she is using the Tagal
og platform. I believe it's for her to learn and practice Tagalog.
So may mga magbe-benefit sa project na ito ng Facebook, i.e. foreigners who wan
t to study Filipino language.
To the Facebook team... Salamat :-)
Tagalog is our pilipino national languages kaya dapat lang na merong tagalog fa
cebook, we pilipinos should comply to where is our nearest origin or kung saan
ka pinanganak, although i was born in cebu, but i grow up in Quezon,Manila,Maka
ti, ano nga ang tagalog ng multiply isnt it nadagdagan,dumadami?, unattractive=
pumapangit, cool=malamig na tao.
Whether English or Tagalog, or any other language, it doesn't matter.
The most important language is the "LANGUAGE OF LOVE".
Sounds corny, huh?
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Maybe it's because most of us are habituated using the English language we find it a bit odd to use Tagalog. There may be other nationals too interested in the Tagalog version but helpless to use it. Filipino version is not a problem but since Facebook is a social network an English version sounds so much better. The Filipino version also seems more concentrated and more confined to it's nationals only.
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i think having a filipino version of facebook is ok. I dont see any reason why
people wouldn't like that.
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