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Personally, I would like to see something that filters out languages I don't understand. Too often on Facebook my feed is filled up with posts in varying languages that I simply don't know and I would prefer them not being there.

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I've suggested a similar feature through their Feedback link, although the other way around: G+ should detect your contacts' default languages (via GMail, for example), and then automatically create circles for different languages (you could amend them manually where you have bilingual people). When you post, G+ should then detect the language (Translate can do that!) and suggest the right circle. To work properly though, you'd also need an "intersect" feature, so that you could share something with "people in English-speaking circle AND people in Friends circle".

Edit: in any case, considering their experience with Orkut (which was overrun by Brazilians and Indians using their own idioms), I bet Google is already working on language filters of some sort.

Why not automate their translation? That's the future of a flat world =)

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