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Facebook, the world's most popular social media networking site, has drawn attention recently for some controversial and offensive language suggestions that appear in users' profile information. On the Facebook profile page, all users are able to specify their city and state locations, phone number, birth date and language. The social networking site has an autofill function to suggest popular terms based on user input. An article from TechCrunch.com revealed that Facebook produced language choices such as "nigga slang" when users typed in their language information on their Edit Profile page. Some tweets about the appearance of "nigga slang" were found, and the discovery upset members of the Facebook community who consider the racially charged term to be derogatory and offensive. Since the discovery, which coincided with Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, "nigga slang" has been removed so that when users type it in, the Save Changes box remains inactive.
It is unlikely that the suggested term was intentional and more probable that the suggestion appeared because of user-generated content. Based on information gathered from user input, search terms pop up based on frequency. Thus, this instance could be attributed to search statistics gathered by Facebook.
Other, less controversial options still remain, including: Franglais (a combination of French and English), IMing (instant messaging), Pig Latin (On'tday askway), a rather poetic Spanish phrase, Universal Language of Money, and my favorite, This is America, I speak American.
(If you still wish to offend, "White-bred Eponics" is still available.)
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