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Get Ready to Try the New Taste of Facebook Lite

Posted 08/13/09 at 12:30:04 PM  by Paul Lilly

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Facebook earlier this week rolled out a new feature called "Facebook Lite" to more users than it originally intended. The beta service was primarily intended to take place in India, as it was designed to be used in parts of the world where broadband speeds aren't readily available.

"We are currently testing a simplified alternative to Facebook.com that loads a specific set of features quickly and efficiently," Facebook said in a statement. "Similar to the Facebook experience you get on your mobile phones, Facebook 'Lite' is a fast-loading, simplified version of Facebook that enables people to make comments, accept Friend requests, write on people's Walls, and look at photos and status updates."

At least one user who got an early peek said the new service "looks like a simplified version of Twitter with comments enabled." But that doesn't appear to be the intention, as once testing is complete in India, the social networking site will then target Russia and China.

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TAGS: Software, Social Networking, facebook lite
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avatarHas anyone actually tried

Submitted by pizzaguy on Fri, 08/14/2009 - 1:41pm

Has anyone actually tried it? I got the message, but when I went to it (lite.facebook.com), it just redirected me to facebook.com. I don't know if it changed settings for me server side or if its not letting me try it. If it actually let me do it, the only thing I noticed was that the urls for facebook were just the direct link (facebook.com/profile.php as apposed to facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php).

also, i'm not sure if it had anything to do with this (it may have just been a cowincidence), but the next day, whenever I went to an application i got caught in an infinite redirect loop. 

 

Has anyone actually noticed major differences? 

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avatarWho cares?

Submitted by chemguyca on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 1:13pm

Facebook is just the Internet's version of a cheesy soap opera. Let's have some info that matters.

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avatarWho cares?

Submitted by chemguyca on Thu, 08/13/2009 - 1:12pm

Facebook is just the Internet's versio of a cheesy soap opera. Let's have some info that matters.

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