Myspace confuses Switzerland and Sweden
I’m not really used to go to the myspace site very often but I went there recently and was suprised to see that they somehow constraint you to access a localized version of the social-networking site. So the main page offers for swiss residents the choice between the three main languages: “German”, “French” and “Italian”. However when clicking on of those links, it is supprising to see that the link redirect the user to the swedish version of MySpace.
The confusion between Switzerland and Sweden is not new and occurs often for north-americans but it is a utterly messed-up blooper for a big company as myspace.com and the danger of badly controlled over-localization It also reminds me the bad design choice of PayPal that provides only german language for the Switzerland based accounts, ignoring by the way half of the population of Switzerland as potential users, letting them annoyed, frustrated and desappointed.
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