Force the facebook ‘like’ button language

Si — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:05:41 +0000

Facebook automatically changes the language of the ‘like’ button to the language of the user who’s session is logged in. Although this is a cool feature sometimes you might want to override it.

Thankfully it’s surprisingly easy… all you have to do is add an URL parameter which specifies the country code! So for spanish you insert “&locale=es_ES“, making sure to honour the capitalisation.

English Facebook like button

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Spanish Facebook like button

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Diana takes one for the team – facebook username mischief

Si — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:27:23 +0000

This story has flown around the internet today via social networks such as Digg, Reddit, Twitter and Facebook. It’s one of those situations where you just can’t help laughing at someone in an unfortunate situation. If this doesn’t make you laugh you really don’t have a sense of humour… … maybe you should add Diana as a friend. It started as a Reddit thead: Facebook girl “loves an*l” but apparantly doesn’t know it Basically, to some up, someone who is probably close to Diana has been able to access her account and choose her username. They chose ‘I Love An*l’. Now, if you type in http://www.facebook.com/i.love.anal you go to her page. I am, of course, assuming she didn’t do it herself. The original person who found this out was good enough to try to tell her… This didn’t go down too well! Reddit also became aware of how much publicity the thread achieved. A new one was started up pointing out the results if you Googled the girls name. Reddit has now removed the above picture as the joke ‘went too far’. They were probably right, everyone was queuing up to tell Diana what has happened. She will almost certainly be a well know name for at least the next 24hours. Just goes to show what happens if you leave yourself logged in somewhere. (please note i have not mentioned her name anywhere in this article, i’m assuming facebook will change her username very soon, hopefully she will soon fall back into obscurity) So, pick your usename name! http://www.facebook.com/username Facebook should have done this from the start! or you could end up like these people (found via the reddit thread): http://www.facebook.com/cumonmyface http://www.facebook.com/cock.eater http://www.facebook.com/gayer

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Force the facebook ‘like’ button language

English Facebook like button

Spanish Facebook like button

Diana takes one for the team – facebook username mischief