Facebook, the global leader in social networking announced last week that it is planning to come up with an India office in Hyderabad this year. Don Faul, Facebook’s Director, Global Online Operations said,that Hyderabad office of Facebook will have operations & online sales teams.

The initial startup team of Facebook India office would have specialists on the Facebook product to handle online queries with online advertising experts to assist advertisers.

The India office of Facebook is planned along with a new office in Austin, Texas. The idea behind these expansion plan is to allow Facebook to better serve its more than 400 million users in addition to developers and advertisers.

It is interesting to know that over 70% Facebook users reside outside the U.S., using Facebook in more than 70 languages. In India alone, Facebook has over 8 million users.

Those who do not know Facebook is way ahead of Google’ social networking platform Orkut in terms of daily traffic and visit frequency.

The Facebook revolution internationally is a hit and Zynga, a developer of games for social networking sites has already launched its product development center in Bangalore.

Palo Alto-based Facebook however, ruled out plans to move sections of its product development & engineering to India.

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