# What the heck language is Facebook showing me?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 18, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-language-is-facebook-showing-me/999002 "2024-03-18T22:11:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-language-is-facebook-showing-me/999002/1 "2024-03-18T22:11:19Z")

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I don’t have a Facebook account but for the past several days if I end up at a Facebook page after a search it is in a foreign language. The title reads, “Lihat seterusnya di Facebook”. Wassup?

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**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-language-is-facebook-showing-me/999002/2 "2024-03-18T22:16:33Z")

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According to Google it’s Malay, or maybe Indonesian. It seems like it means something like “go to the next page”.

ETA: In the context of Facebook, I assume it’s something like an attempt by someone who wants to be an influencer to gain followers.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-language-is-facebook-showing-me/999002/3 "2024-03-18T22:25:32Z")

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Yeah. Your search is resulting in link to a click farm.

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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-language-is-facebook-showing-me/999002/4 "2024-03-19T01:18:52Z")

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Weird. But it is on every Facebook page I visit, even ones I had bookmarked from the past. The entire page is in this language. How do I switch back to English?

UPDATE Got it. I cleared my Facebook cookies.

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**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-language-is-facebook-showing-me/999002/5 "2024-03-19T01:32:13Z")

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@FlikTheBlue is correct. It’s Indonesian (or possibly Malaysian - the languages are identical except for some spellings and preferred word choices). I speak Indonesian so could read it without Google.

I would translate that as “See the material that follows on Facebook.”