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Facebook Shuts Down Its 'Lite' Site

engine

4:12 pm on Apr 21, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Facebook Shuts Down Its 'Lite' Site [news.bbc.co.uk]

Facebook has shut down its Lite site aimed at users with slow or poor internet connections.

The stripped down version of the original ran for around seven months.

Facebook posted a note on its own fan page thanking those who used Lite, adding that it had "learned a lot from the test of a slimmed-down site".

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4:33 pm on Apr 21, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Apparently one of the lessons Facebook learned was that not many people needed a lightweight site.

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12:43 am on Apr 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I used it for a while as it cut down on a lot of the cruft. The lower uptake may have been due to the lack of promotion and difficulty of locating this version.