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We are asking that Facebook kindly review its current profile format to enable Tibetans to select , as their hometown Lhasa, TIBET. Currently when Tibetans open an account they are denied that choice and can only select ‘Lhasa, Xizang, China’, an option that endorses the bogus claim that Tibet is part of China. We recognize and welcome the fact that the administrators of this socially responsible organization respect; and is committed to human rights, justice, democratic values and freedom. As such we are hopeful that they will have no objection, in allowing Tibetans worldwide, the freedom, to select for a profile, their hometown of Lhasa, Tibet, and not be forced to choose an option that perpetuates China’s cynical fabrication. We look forward to a positive response from Facebook.
Online Action
Send a message to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to allow Tibetans freedom to select Lhasa, Tibet, as their profile hometown.
Here’s how: open up messages on your Facebook homepage page-click select all messages-now in the URL add the number 4-click enter you can now paste:
Facebook: Please Allow Tibetans Right To Select Their Hometown http://tibettruth.com/2012/01/03/facebook-please-allow-tibetans-right-to-select-their-hometown/
Do exactly the same for the rest of Facebook Execs simply add respectively 5 and 7 in the URL and follow instructions above
karma
January 3, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Tibet is not China nor Chinese
Jigmey
January 3, 2012 at 1:43 pm
that would be very good and would be good act from facebook too. lets see how facebook faces it! lets see if face book is a really social network.
Karma
January 3, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Country right must be fixed. if it’s says in map doesn’t mean that Tibet is not there. It is there some country they don’t have freedom insight but the name still shown on ur list. So that’s not fair.
LeonS
January 4, 2012 at 1:02 am
The instructions didn’t work for me…
I found that URL’s of this form were what was needed:
http://www.facebook.com/messages/4
http://www.facebook.com/messages/5
http://www.facebook.com/messages/7
(6 was marked as invalid)
tibettruth
January 4, 2012 at 1:26 am
Hi, They have worked for folks, apart from number 6. Thanks for your action on this.
kunkun
January 10, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Thank you for the action ,,,,,we fight in every possible ways ,,,,,,
tibettruth
January 10, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Very welcome. Important to press Facebook on this.
Rollor
January 13, 2012 at 4:28 pm
“Xizang” is the Chinese translation of “Tibet”, using the pronunciation in Mandarin. But that is not English. Nobody other than the Chinese knows what it is. I wonder if Facebook would do the same with Hong Kong, calling it “Xianggang” as the Chinese do.
tibettruth
January 13, 2012 at 5:46 pm
Thanks for your thoughts on this, a good point you raise there. We understand ‘Xizang’ transliterates from Mandarin toEnglish with the meaning of ‘Western Treasure House’. In that context, and given China’s dubious claims over Tibetan lands, perhaps more correctly the term applies not to all three regions of #Tibet but to the truncated area of U-Tsang, renamed into the laughingly named Xizang ‘Autonomus’ (sic) Region.
FacwBook needs to act on this denial of individual choice by respecting fact that its Tibetan users would prefer to select Lhasa, T%ibet for their profile
Michaela
January 15, 2012 at 1:37 am
I can’t work out how to do this on Facebook..there is nowhere that says ‘select all messages’ in my messages. Please let me know how so that I can support this.
Thank you
tibettruth
January 15, 2012 at 1:50 am
Hello. Right, so on your FB page open clik on your messages icon. Underneath your messages should be a link/option saying ‘See All Messages’ Clik the. Now in the URL at top of your browser add the number 4 then hit enter. That will open a page for you to paste:
Please Allow Tibetans Right To Select Their Hometown http://tibettruth.com/2012/01/03/facebook-please-allow-tibetans-right-to-select-their-hometown/
Once paasted clik send and that’s it
Do exactly the same for other Facebook Execs simply add respectively 5, and 7 in the URL and follow instructions above
Xiaogang
January 15, 2012 at 6:35 am
As a Chinese, I fully support the Call for change to Facebook, to Allow Tibetans Right To Select Their Hometown.
Everyone should have the right to select their hometown.
I can’t see any reason for Facebook to deny the choice “Lhasa, Tibet”, while it allows the formats such as “San Francisco, California”, “Newcastle, New South Wales”, “Toronto, Ontario”, “Keelung, Taiwan”.
Further more. “Lhasa, Xizang, China” is a very strange format to me, in which “Xizang” is a Chinese translation, while never “Lhasa” nor “China” are. If Facebook decided to spell “Tibet” as “Xizang”, why they not spell “China” as “Zhongguo”?
tibettruth
January 15, 2012 at 9:57 am
Xiao, Thank you for your comments.