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Facebook uses they as a singular pronoun when the gender of the user is not known, leading to news feed items like: "Pat Jones added Prince to their favorite music." ... Now after some cross-linguistic difficulties, Facebook is trying to stamp out singular they by being more demanding about gender specification.

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101phones2 months ago

Facebook can be so annoying.
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Hi, I'm Jordan Running. By day I write about software for Tucows.com. By night I blog at swirlee.org (sometimes), do some programming ...

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