Facebook用户可选择男女以外48种性别
这次要说的是脸谱，这是什么节奏？Facebook已经完成性别选项更新。从今以后，美国Facebook用户除男女以外，还可以选择“本性别”“变性别”“双性别”等其他48种选项。
Facebook表示，此次更新暂时只针对美国地区，主要目的是向用户提供更多选择，方便他们更贴切地描述自己目前的情况。Facebook目前在全世界有12.3亿月活跃用户，它也允许用户将性别状态设为保密。
负责此次更新的软件工程师布丽尔•哈里森说：“对很多人来说，这次更新好像毫无意义，但是对于那些会受到影响的人来说，这次更新意味着天翻地覆的改变。”哈里森本人也是此次更新的受益者，她正在接受从男性变为女性的系列手术。“这是我第一次在网站上向朋友说明自己的确切性别状态，”她说。
据加州大学洛杉矶分校一所智库的预测数据显示，美国至少有70万人声称自己是变性人。美国最大的非异性恋维权机构“人权战线”在去年的调查中发现，10%的同性恋、双性恋和变性人会在填写性别时选择“其他”。
Male, female or 48 other varieties? Now Facebook offers users FIFTY different genders to choose from
New options include 'cisgender,' 'transgender' and 'intersex'
Site has also updated its setting to allow users to select a neutral pronoun referring to them as they, their or them
Facebook came up with its range of terms after consulting with leading gay and transgender activists
Facebook has completely revamped its gender settings to allow for options other than just male or female.
The feature is designed to help transgender users of the site, and now has 50 options, including'cisgender,' 'transgender' and 'intersex'.
The site has also updated its setting to allow users to select a neutral pronoun referring to them as they, their or them.
Facebook said the changes, shared with The Associated Press before the launch on Thursday, initially cover the company's 159 million monthly users in the U.S.
They are aimed at giving people more choices in how they describe themselves, such as androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid or transsexual.
'There's going to be a lot of people for whom this is going to mean nothing, but for the few it does impact, it means the world,' said Facebook software engineer Brielle Harrison.
Harrison worked on the project and is herself undergoing gender transformation, from male to female.
On Thursday, while watchdogging the software for any problems, she said she was also changing her Facebook identity from Female to TransWoman.
'All too often transgender people like myself and other gender nonconforming people are given this binary option, do you want to be male or female? What is your gender?
'And it's kind of disheartening because none of those let us tell others who we really are,' she said.
'This really changes that, and for the first time I get to go to the site and specify to all the people I know what my gender is.'
Facebook, which has 1.23 billion active monthly users around the world, also allows them to keep their gender identity private and will continue to do so.
The Williams Institute, a think tank based at the University of California, Los Angeles, estimate that there are at least 700,000 individuals in the U.S. who identify as transgender, an umbrella term that includes people who live as a gender different from the one assigned to them at birth.
The move by Facebook represents a basic and a yet significant form of recognition of the nation's growing transgender rights movement, which has been spurred by veteran activists and young people who identify as transgender at younger and younger ages.
The Human Rights Campaign last year found that 10 percent of the 10,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender youths it surveyed used 'other' or wrote in their own gender terms.
'Over the past few years, a person's Facebook profile truly has become their online identity, and now Facebook has taken a milestone step to allow countless people to more honestly and accurately represent themselves,' HRC President Chad Griffin said.
'Facebook's action is one that I hope others heed in supporting individuals' multifaceted identities.'
The change to the gender selection option is seen as a major step toward acceptance for people who don't self-identify as male or female, but the high-profile development seemed senseless to those who believe in two genders, no more.
'Of course Facebook is entitled to manage its wildly popular site as it sees fit, but here is the bottom line: It's impossible to deny the biological reality that humanity is divided into two halves - male and female,' said Jeff Johnston, an issues analyst for Focus on the Family, an influential national religious organization based in Denver.
'Those petitioning for the change insist that there are an infinite number of genders, but just saying it doesn't make it so.
'That said, we have a great deal of compassion for those who reject their biological sex and believe they are the opposite sex.'
Masen Davis, executive director of the San Francisco-based Transgender Law Center, said it may be hard for some people to understand the importance of having the ability to select from multiple genders online. But he said many transgender people will be thrilled with the change.
楼主你好，一直觉得跟客户聊天除了电话 邮件 就是SKYPE。后来听说有FACEBOOK .可以注册，但是要花钱或者是“跳墙”，所以一直想要一个 ，不知道楼主有没有办法或者给支个招啊 轮胎销售 发表于 2014-2-20 15:17
楼主你好，一直觉得跟客户聊天除了电话 邮件 就是SKYPE。后来听说有FACEBOOK .可以注册，但是要花钱或者是 ...
那就翻墙呗，也不是很麻烦。
若认为翻墙麻烦，你可以用linkedin,直接可用，而且效果也不错。 hengyuan_孙 发表于 2014-2-20 15:31
那就翻墙呗，也不是很麻烦。
若认为翻墙麻烦，你可以用linkedin,直接可用，而且效果也不错。
什么是翻墙 怎么翻墙 求指点呢 youvpn 可以翻墙 :o:P:P:dizzy::curse::dizzy: 厉害。。。。。。。牛逼
轮胎销售 发表于 2014-2-21 11:49
什么是翻墙 怎么翻墙 求指点呢
这个呢，应为我们的高层认为互联网太多信息不太好，直接帮我们滤除了一点~~~~~~~~:o
很像安全栏杆，高墙之类的东西。其实是滤除很多。:L
但是有些比较好的东西也被挡住了，为了获得试用他们的机会，我们就要勇敢翻墙了。:lol
google退出中国后，就发布了翻墙软件，goagent,我就用的它，很不错。 hengyuan_孙 发表于 2014-2-21 14:59
这个呢，应为我们的高层认为互联网太多信息不太好，直接帮我们滤除了一点~~~~~~~~
很像安全栏杆，高 ...
你是说下载你给我的这个软件 ，通过这个软件就可以直接上浏览器吗？ 轮胎销售 发表于 2014-2-21 17:01
你是说下载你给我的这个软件 ，通过这个软件就可以直接上浏览器吗？
还需要进一步的安装，应该是有相关的博文的。
论坛为什么不能发blogl链接呢，只是供参考用的。你用goagent和blog联合在百度上搜一下就好。
下载的软件包，一个gmail账号，接下来就是一步步的安装了。
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