More than one billion people use Facebook every day. If you picked two at random, they most likely wouldn’t speak each other’s language. But the company thinks they should still be able to socialize with each other.

A new feature uses automatic translation software to help people post Facebook updates in multiple languages at the same time. Users viewing a post made that way are shown the version most likely to be readable to them in light of their own past language use and settings.

The new feature is also designed to provide Facebook with valuable new data to help its translation software convert slang and other colloquial language from one language to another. More.

See: MIT Technology Review

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