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Accessing your Facebook Feed can be really tormenting on slow connections. Today Facebook have released a “strip down version” of their Facebook app. Facebook Lite does not have features as viewing videos, it also has lower version of original images. This is a plus point, since high quality images take time to load but also take more bandwidth. Essentially what Facebook is trying to do is to provide “Internet for everyone everywhere”. Quicker load time with less bandwidth will certainly help Facebook to gain more users. You will be able to access all the “core functions”.
Facebook rolls out their new app in Asia and will releasing in Latin America, Africa and Europe.
More than a billion people around the world access Facebook from a range of mobile devices on varying networks. In many areas, networks can be slow and not able to support all the functionality found in Facebook for Android. Facebook Lite was built for these situations, giving people a reliable Facebook experience when bandwidth is at a minimum