LONDON -- Google turned to Nessie, marking St. Andrew's Day with a special Doodle. Facebook, however, took a different route, leaving some of its Scottish users quite confused.
People in Scotland posting about the public holiday on Monday could only mark it with a status featuring a tricolour of blue, yellow and red -- the Romanian flag -- rather than the blue and white Saltire, or St. Andrew's Cross.
As well as being the patron saint of Scotland, St. Andrew is as revered in Romania. The tricolour might have made sense in Romania but some Facebook users were puzzled about why they were seeing it in Scotland.
So instead of just creating a saltire, Facebook have decided that St Andrew's day is celebrated by Romania. #goodjob pic.twitter.com/m3kQ7pMCkx— Susan Park (@_NotSusanBoyle_) November 30, 2015
update: facebook still very insistent that I say something about St Andrew's Day, and has added a Romanian flag now pic.twitter.com/F0wZOJ245d— Andrew Dunn (@AnndraADunn) November 30, 2015
Hey Facebook, what is this? #StAndrewsDay pic.twitter.com/cZ0FKo4ZcG— kandice ⚯͛ (@xRockyRaccoon) November 30, 2015
Jeez Oh, @facebook. Random Wednesday gets a camel for Humpday and you can't manage a wee Saltire for #StAndrewsDay? pic.twitter.com/3Ena1v91qd— Kevin Gilmartin (@KevinGilmartin) November 30, 2015
Well done @facebook. Romanian flag for St. Andrew’s day. May have been an idea to let us Scots have a Saltire, no? pic.twitter.com/I5tzaJ4IJk— Stephen M. Blythe (@stephenemm) November 30, 2015
Later on Monday users in Scotland were given an option to celebrate the day with their Facebook friends using the blue and white Saltire, ITV News reported.