Facebook to Ask More Users to Specify Their Sex
Most developers have discovered that a large portion of Facebook’s user base – perhaps as much as 30% – haven’t specified their sex on their profile page. According to Facebook, that’s about to change.
Citing the difficulty of translating the gender-neutral (and invented word) “themself” that appears in Facebook feed stories in English, Facebook has decided to start prompting users to specify a gender. Currently, non-English Facebook users that haven’t specified a gender often get assigned the wrong gender in feed stories.
However,
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