E Pluribus Unum Profile: Facebook Goes Latin

We were all bemused when Facebook went pirate on us, now we’re more open to the site giving us another rather random language option for your profile: Latin.

It turns out that the social networking site’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, studied both ancient Greek and Latin in high school, but there’s no word on whether a kofta kebab translation is in the works as well.

The Facebook blog launches into an argument on the usefulness of being able to “puncti” your friends instead of just poking them:

“Latin has joined the more than 70 languages we’ve made available on the site in the past two years, including some which have launched just today–Azeri, Faroese, Georgian and Nepali. Some of these are languages that millions of people speak across the globe. Others are dialects that specific communities use in select geographic areas. Still others are just for fun: ‘Pirate’ may not appeal to everyone, but for those nostalgic for the days of Blackbeard and Captain Hook, it’s there for you.”

Glad to see the guys over at Facebook are making sure they don’t ostracise any imaginable language, including imaginary or defunct ones.

So carpe diem, add a new profile photo.