Facebook has expanded to the rest of the world with the help of its foreign language members: Engineers first collected thousands of English words and phrases throughout the site and invited members to translate those bits of text into another language.Members then rate translations until a consensus is reached.The Spanish version was done by about 1,500 volunteers in less than a month.The German version was done by 2,000 volunteers in less than two weeks. In early March 2008, Facebook invited French members to help out.They did the translations in a few days. Facebook exists in over 70 different languages and approximately 70 percent of their members are outside of the U.S.(Facebook,2010).