Who needs the letter “a?” There are plenty of others. At least that’s the premise behind the latest Facebook meme, this one by way of France.

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It’s phishing season in France, and the bait is email from Facebook impostor FRfacebook.fr.

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Facebook users in Singapore spend the most time on the social network each time they begin a session, while those in Brazil tend to hang around for much shorter times, according to the latest international study on the use of social networks from Experian.

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Vive La France! If you can’t make it to Paris for the annual July 14 festivities, Facebook is a good guide for celebrations around the U.S.
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The intentions are noble, but we’re not sure about the practicality here: The Education Minister in France, Luc Chatel, has announced that the nation will begin to close the Facebook accounts of French cyberbullies.  Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook and 20 other companies are filing a complaint to France’s highest court challenging a decree requiring them to retain web users’ personal data for a year.
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Earlier this year I began receiving a lot of inquiries about translating the site into other languages. I’ve been forced to put off the launch since I was busy working on other stuff but last week I finally got around to launching the French version of AllFacebook. Right now I am being helped by the team over at KRDS. This is more of an experiment than anything else but I’m pretty excited to expand internationally.
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If you haven’t checked out out Facebook application statistics over the past few weeks, you definitely should. Sorting the leaderboard by daily active users shows that 4 of the top 30 Facebook applications are now French applications. “Que Pensent mes Amis de moi?” or “What do my friends think of me?” now ranks as the sixth most visited application based on daily active users.

For some reason our system only picked up on this application five days ago but it is clearly popular. Another French application which is extremely popular is “Qui a la plus grosse …?” or “Who has the larger …?” You can only guess what type of controversy has been created among friends with that application. Interestingly, these applications are reminiscent of applications that were successful early on for the Facebook platform.
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