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Facebook has been secretly testing an app in China called Colorful Balloons 脸书在中国秘密放飞“彩色气球”？ In May, Facebook quietly launched a photo-sharing app called Colorful Balloons in China, where the social networking site is banned, according to a report in The New York Times. 据相关媒体报道，由于中国用户在本土无法使用Facebook，今年5月份脸书在中国上架了一款名为“彩色气球”的照片共享应用。 Colorful Balloons appears to mimic the look and feel of Facebook’s Moments app, which allows users to share photos with friends and family members. Rather than interfacing with Facebook, the app works with the country’s biggest social network, WeChat. “彩色气球”的功能和感官与Facebook旗下的Moments非常相似，用户可以和联系人、家人之间相互传送照片。而这款app将适用于国内最大的社交软件——微信，而非脸书。 Facebook released the app through a local company called Youge Internet Technology, without any hint of branding from the social media giant, and appears to have taken efforts to ensure that it doesn’t spread widely. 授权在中国推出“彩色气球”应用的公司名为Youge Internet Technology，没有任何迹象显示其是Facebook的下属子公司。很明显，公司尽可能地来确保这款软件的传播范围不会太广。 The Times describes this quiet rollout as “uNPRecedented,” and that it demonstrates the effort that tech companies will undertake to try and gain a foothold into China and its population of 700 million internet users. | 
