The Facebook Blog

Facebook users tend to be vocal with their suggestions about how to improve the site, and the growing set of international Facebook users is no different. Facebook users in countries outside the US have frequently asked us to add the ability to list screen names for multiple IM clients in the contact information section of their profiles. Today we launched that feature, to make it easier for all Facebook users to contact their friends online.

So if you and your friends use MSN Messenger or Skype to chat in your part of the world, you can now list your MSN and Skype screen names on your profile. Likewise, if you live in the US, you can look up the screen names and IM clients of your Facebook friends in other countries.

Wherever you are, let us know how to improve Facebook.

More generally, Facebook is always looking for feedback from international users. We want to make it easy for you to share information with your friends, no matter where you live (or don't live...my friend Micaela's current address reads "various South American airports"). This is why we made regional networks for all parts of the world, and why various Facebook engineers and I sometimes stay up until 4 AM launching school networks in countries from Peru to Germany to India. We made these networks for you. Let us know if there's anything we can make better.



Kate, a Customer Support Rep, is backpacking around Brazil next month, and is stoked that now she'll be able to look up her new friends' screen names.