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Facebook has just launched the Spanish language version of their site, a result of the Translations project we learned about a couple months back. To activate the site in Spanish, you can go to your account page, under which you will find a new “language” tab.
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Starting on Monday, users who access Facebook from a Spanish-speaking country will see the site in their native language by default. With a reported 2.8 million active users already in Spain and Latin America, the move marks a big step in the social network's international push, and represents a serious threat to the sites that currently dominate these markets - most notably Orkut and hi5.
According to Facebook, nearly 1,500 users participated in the project to translate the site into Spanish. The company expects to launch user-translated versions in German and French in coming weeks.