Yesterday, Facebook launched the simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and Russian versions of their site. This is a huge move for Facebook who has been rapidly launching in new languages thanks to their translation tool which crowd sources the job of translating the site. The site has already been translated in to German, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Polish and Japanese.

Facebook is rapidly on their way to expanding their global dominance as the largest social network in the world. It also appears that Facebook has launched in Portuguese, Suomi, Russian, Cestina and Catala. I’m not aware of what many of these languages even are to be honest but my guess is they are now entering uncharted territory! Facebook must now prove that they have developed the best multi-lingual communications platform.

As Facebook rapidly rolls out new languages, they are clearly becoming one of the most dominant international player in the global battle for social network domination.