Celebration of St. Andrews Day with Romanian Flag in Facebook: Scotland FB Users Upset

On 30^th November, Facebook suggested people to celebrate St. Andrews Day with a Romanian flag. Facebook was not wrong technically in this approach.

Actually, Romania along with Poland, Russia, Greece, and Ukraine celebrate this special day on the memory of their Patron saint St. Andrew. However, Facebook users of Scotland were not happy about the Romanian flag show instead of St. Andrew's cross.

Facebook encourages its users to update their status with special mention about the cause of celebration. Whether you are celebrating your own birthday or a national event, FB suggests the options portraying the idea of the celebration. In that case, keeping the historical fact in mind, according to the BBC report, the Romania flag suggestion does actually make sense.

However, the Scottish FB users complained that they were unable to use Saltire, the national flag of Scotland on their national day status. Actually, only Romanian flag option was given by FB in the first place.

Facebook became aware of the complaint soon through social media. Later on, the blue-and-white Saltire was featured too in FB and made available to please the Scottish users.

As per International Business Times news, the hashtag #StAndrewsDay had been trending in the UK as social media users sent each other wishes on St Andrew's Day and on Twitter alone, more than 16,000 people used the hashtag on Monday itself.

The good thing about the news is FB rectified their error as soon as possible to remain loyal to their users. There are several countries that celebrate St. Andrew's day as their national day. People are still confused why Romanian flag was chosen exclusively among them.

Some experts think that the Romanian flag might have been picked randomly for being the first St. Andrew's day celebrating country alphabetically. Scottish newspapers mentioned in their story how Google properly used the apt flag in its landing page of search engine on 30 November.

According to the Independent reports, Google is also celebrating the day with a Doodle depicting the Loch Ness monster in a Saltire-coloured lake.

Scottish people were venting their frustration through Twitter. Even UK foreign office also tweeted mentioning how UK authorities worldwide are also using Saltire on the honor of Scotland and St. Andrew's day.

The video of the Saltire 'flying proudly alongside the UK Flag outside Downing Street to celebrate St. Andrew's day on behalf of Scotland became popular. The video became viral after some official posted it in social media using hashtag- #StAndrewsDay'.