Thread: Strange facebook experience

Today I clicked at Super Swans face book link but could not enter because I have no face book identity. The form I saw had Thai writing so I could not read it. I did not enter anything.

I then decided to register with face book and accessed a local german facebook page. Again I got a form in Thai language. Obviously they had placed some cookie on my PC and associated me with Thai.

Is it very ignorant on my part to be surprised?

If go here Welcome to Facebook | Facebook in your web browser you have the choice of language on the bottom of the page.

Thanks, yes I had that on my page too and was able to change the language and register.

My problem is only why would it start with Thai when I access a german page from germany? It must have stored that information somewhere on my computer that I had accessed a thai site before and changed the default language accordingly.

Unless you are using a proxy server it is fairly easy to identify your source country from your IP address which is passed when you request a web page. Google does it, unless you tell it different it assumes you speak the language of your source country....

Originally Posted by mediamanbkk

Unless you are using a proxy server it is fairly easy to identify your source country from your IP address which is passed when you request a web page. Google does it, unless you tell it different it assumes you speak the language of your source country....

Yes I know. Sometimes annoying. Even if I chose the english Google I am diverted to the german site and have to chose english from there.

But here the opposite happened. I am in Germany and I chose the german facebook site and still got the Thai script.

Your girlfriend is watching you....

This is indeed a fascinating mystery..........

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