Help, my Facebook is Foreign!

Get me my English back on Facebook!

Yes, I had the same problem you have. Somehow I must have brushed a button on my computer while viewing posts on Facebook. In the blink of an eye, I got some strange language made up of strange characters that were far from my preferred English language. I let it go for a little while because I could mostly work around it. For instance, if I wanted to “like” something, I found what I thought was the like button. It was in the foreign language but when I put my cursor over it, the English version appeared above the foreign version!

Well, I finally was about to break down and ask a techie friend if I could sit down with his Facebook page to use it as a guide. The problem was, I didn’t remember the location of the “settings” tab and all that stuff was in the foreign language.

I googled my problem and one of the sites that had a fix was called Tech5. After a little trial and error, I was able to get to the correct screen and once again found my beloved English!

Because it was pretty annoying and I noticed many other people reported the same problem, I thought I would try to do a simple explanation. It may help a few of you.

On your Facebook page within the dark blue band at the top, click on the last icon, a small triangle-shape (down arrow). You should see several groupings of items. First block will be your page(s), second block should be create page/manage pages, third block is create group/new groups, fourth block is create ads/advertising on Facebook, fifth block is activity log/news feed preferences/settings/logout, last block is help/support inbox/report a problem. I’m telling you what is in each block because, if your problem is like mine was, all these items were in jibberish! So just use the count from the top of the blocks to get to “settings”…it would be the fifth block down and the third item within that block…click on that.

Next you should be on a page for general account settings. If this is also jibberish, the top item on the left of the screen should be highlighted. There’s a larger block in the center of the page. There are 8 lines under the main heading. Language is what you want, it is the 6^th line down. On this line, go to the far right and click on “edit”. The line expands and shows a drop-down list of languages. Fortunately “English” is in English!! Select it, click on save changes and you should be back in business!