Since yesterday Facebook is available in Spanish. It’s interesting for us how from all the languages they could choose to launch first, Spanish was the chosen one. This shows how increasingly important the Spanish speaking world is becoming for the Internet giants (MySpace launched their Spanish version a few months ago).

We released some results in november where we said Facebook was lagging behind in Latin America…  well, we think that’s about to change. We’ll run the same survey in a couple of months to see what the new results are.

Facebook already has around 2.8 million users in Latin America and Spain, oh, and by the way - the translation of the site was done by users.

We think Facebook is a great platform for many things, including online research. So the move is more than welcome.

Facebook Launches in Spanish [Mashable]