Memes are the language of the web and Facebook wants to better understand them.
According to a translation of the report posted on the newspaper's English-language section: The Facebook profile of Garzón was deleted in the early hours of the morning.
The significance of the initiative is twofold: It brings the history of Valentino (who retired from the house that bears his name in 2008) to the wired generation in the language of YouTube and Facebook.
The aim is to recruit people for a group it calls the Sentinels, a citizens' brigade of sorts, to reach lawmakers through other means, like writing letters to the editor, dialing in to talk-radio programs and mastering the language of Twitter and Facebook.
It's the language of YouTube and Facebook, and a form of communication for younger artists and older ones as well.
The idea is that you are pretending to speak in the common language of Facebook, and are in fact speaking in that common language, but are aware of how unoriginal you are being; so when you write "omg" you are ironically commenting on the use of "omg," but when other people write "omg" they are seriously saying "oh my God".
The native language of Facebook is human.
We first heard about PlaySay last year, when it launched at the TC Disrupt conference as a Facebook app that let users learn languages through Facebook's own content translated into your foreign language of choice: "Your Facebook friends are your new classmates.
#Egypt #SaveEgypt — Gehad El-Haddad (@gelhaddad) 3 Jul 13 A spokesman for President Mohamed Morsi released a lengthy, English-language statement on the Facebook page of the Office of Assistant to President for Foreign Relations and International Cooperation condemning the military and political opposition for what it called a "military coup" and warning that "there will be considerable bloodshed".
By contrast, seven out of eight of the largest groups of followers of the Facebook feed are from countries whose primary languages are not English.
