Facebook launches Facebook Lite

Facebook goes on diet with its new version, the Facebook Lite. It is a simpler, lighter, cleaner, crispier and faster Facebook. This step by Facebook,  is seen as a milestone to take a leading edge in the sphere of real-time streaming web. The beta version is launched for specific regions like US and India, where the traffic of people joining this social networking site is heavy.

 Why Facebook Lite ?

• The main focus of the Lite version is writing on walls, sending messages, viewing and posting photos and videos, the crux of a social networking site.
• Facebook classic imbibes a whole set of versatile third-party applications making it richer and heavier whereas we find most of these applications missing in Lite, making it easier to load in a slower internet connection.
• Newer version is specifically targeted for the new users who might find the older version overwhelming with too much of information on a single page.

The changes in Facebook lite:

• The navigation and info buttons on the left of the page, highlights on the right is missing.
• There is no requests other than suggested friends and the friends request.
• The friends tab on the facebook tab is replaced by events tab that is meant for seeing and creating events.
• Another add-on is ‘View Top Stories’ instead of viewing all the post listed in order.
• Updates appear real-time along the bottom of the page, this is something worth experiencing.
• As mentioned earlier, most of the third-party applications are taken away and there is no tool bar and chat available in bottom as well.

This is considered as twitter-like site with no word count limit in posting a message and in comment. Also, a normal facebook page has a size of 778 KB while a page of facebook Lite weighs only 113 KB. Though this depends on the photos and videos a profile has.

A lot of users who enjoyed the various games and quizzes coupled with Facebook Classic might not be very enthusiastic about it.

Check out http://lite.facebook.com/ to have hands-on the newer Facebook and see if you are one of the beta testers!! Users who don’t have an access to Facebook Lite will be automatically linked to Facebook Classic.

This definitely is going to be a hit among folks who love speed. Who doesn’t?

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