Update 5: And here’s what Facebook Lite is really all about. Too bad, looks like most of us will have to wait awhile to try it out. Winamp teases a completely overhauled app, invites beta testers Ro, 24 November 2021 It looks like one of the most popular music players from the olden days is coming back. Whoops, looks like someone at Facebook jumped the gun on this new feature. People who are not part of the test and are trying to access “Lite” will be directed to as usual. We have not opened up access to to all users at this time. This evening, the test was temporarily exposed to a larger set of users by mistake.
We are currently testing Facebook Lite in countries where we are seeing lots of new users coming to Facebook for the first time and are looking to start off with a more simple experience. 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. We are currently testing a simplified alternative to that loads a specific set of features quickly and efficiently. Update 4: And here’s Facebook’s official response: Update 3: FriendFeed co-founder Paul Buchheit shared our story on FriendFeed, so naturally I asked if he knew about this beforehand. Update 2: We just found a screenshot of what this apparently looks like. That is of course very interesting since Facebook just bought FriendFeed for around $50 million yesterday. On 2nd thought, it looks like simplified FriendFeed.” One user notes that it, “ looks like a simplified version of twitter with comments enabled. According to their tweets on it, it appears to be a more Twitter-like.
Update: Okay, while it seems that most of the users who are getting this message now are not seeing much different, earlier this week, it looks like a very select few may have gotten a sneak peak at Facebook Lite. You’ll recall that MySpace launched a “lite” version for its profiles in April. So far, users are reporting not seeing much different about the site, if anything. It’s not finished yet and we have plenty of kinks to work out, but we would love to get your feedback on what we have built so far. We are building a faster, simpler version of Facebook that we call Facebook Lite. So what is it? Well, it looks to be exactly what it says it is, a lighter version of Facebook.