Talking to each other is one of the most entertaining activities in India. Gossiping and having fun has been known as a traditional past time in rural as well as urban India since times immemorial. The biggest social networking site, Facebook, is all set to take advantage of this weakness.

After propelling itself as the leader in social networking, Facebook is now being offered in six Indian languages. Mark Zuckerberg had made a pleasure trip to India in May 2008. The fall out was inevitable. Facebook looks towards expanding its over 200 million user base by reaching out to the vast Internet user community in local languages in India. Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam are the languages being offered.

Users can change language settings by using the settings tab or through the language option on their homepage. However, Facebook is not yet enabled for transliteration ie conversion of English script into phonetics of other languages. The move is expected to bring in a substantial rise in Facebook users.