Friendster Converted Into Japanese and Korean
Posted by Nick O'Neill on December 6th, 2007 12:44 PM
Friendster is expanding its dominance in Asia by announcing today that they have converted the site into Japanese and Korean. Friendster now is available in five languages: Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and English. As their press release states, “These languages represent 66 percent of the world’s Internet users, or approximately three quarters of a billion Internet users in total.” That’s really impressive.
Whether or not you use Friendster (I sure don’t), Friendster is the 12th largest website on the internet worldwide. Also, they now support more languages than any other social network. While I may sing praises about Facebook on a daily basis on my AllFacebook blog, they have yet to expand into other languages even though they have stated their intention to convert.
The other social networks need to adapt and rapidly add support for multiple languages. As I recall, Myspace has added support for Chinese, but that is the only other language that they support. If you are in the social network space, you need to be focusing on multi-language support.
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