Considering a move to Cote d’Ivoire?
Social site for college kids, Facebook seems to be big in Cote d’Ivoire, either that or hundreds of pasty-looking UK students seem to have taken to gone troppo for their studies. Here’s why:
[Wed Dec 06 19:28:50 2006]
Why have Country settings in my profile changed from “UK” to “Cote d’Ivoire”?
We updated our country list and broke down the UK into individual countries. You can now select “England” or whatever country you prefer under the Edit My Profile option. Sorry for the confusion and the inconvenience. Please let me know if you have any further issues or concerns.
Thanks for contacting Facebook
Thanks. Surprised not to be notified by some means, other than reading my profile, and finding out I’ve moved to Africa! Surprised also you chose this way to break the country (UK) up. In international applications, I find the widely-accepted standard is usually UK as top level - as in National TLDs, ISO 3166. Country-of-UK can easily be expressed as a defined region, analagous with US state. I’m English, though my descent is also Welsh and Irish. I work at a London university, and study a distance course at Edinburgh University. Until some decison is taken in any part of the UK to change it, UK works for me.
Cheers
PS. See from a quick search that the Cote D’Ivoire population has swelled enormously at Faceboo.
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