Chris de Wolfe, the co-founder of My space announced their launching of a Korean language site. My space representatives believe that the popular hangout language website will be a success in South Korea. The site will include a "Minilog" which is a place were the youth of South Korea can share their feeling and thoughts.On of the representatives stated "The MySpace site will be primarily in Korean, though users can easily switch the interface to another language. Information written on the personal profile pages, however, won't be automatically translated". The facebook website is also breaking barriers by incorporating a facebook in spanish. I think that breaking language barriers is a great idea, this way social media becomes more global and everybody can be a part of it. However, I think that the communication between different languages will probably be very difficult, but the whole idea is to create communication and for everybody to be part of it. Social media outlets are so important today and it is crucial for them to exist in other cultures and languages.http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/15/south.korea.myspace.ap/index.html
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The Internet is a great way to overcome language barriers. Myspace has done a great job doing this. They also recently launched like a Hispanic version of myspace.
I totally think it's great that language barriers are broken by social media. It makes for better culture and better understanding of social issues all over the world. What of this Latin Myspace though? Will it be very popular? I thought that a lot of international people were already using Myspace, or another version of a social networking site. I just don't know if a totally different network is necessary if we're trying to all be in one place ultimately. Does anyone have any thoughts on that? Or better yet, statistics proving why it is a good idea?
I think this a fabulous idea! Did you read anything about whether people doing a random search will be able to find a person anywhere in the world? I find this topic particularly interesting because I will be moving to Korea in a few months to begin an english teaching contract, so this will be a good tool to use to keep in touch with my students. HA! That feels weird to say! :)
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