Facebook launches 2G-friendly ‘Lite’

Social networking site Facebook is betting on the new light version of its app on the popular Android platform to tap the 2G using population.

According to the social networking site, Facebook Lite was built for  giving people a reliable Facebook experience when bandwidth is at a minimum. In many areas, networks can be slow and not able to support all the functionality found in Facebook for Android, it said.

The Lite app, which is less than 1MB, can be downloaded from the Play Store. The app uses a compression technology wherein most of the heavy lifting is done on Facebook’s servers.

The new app includes Facebook’s core experiences like News Feed, status updates, photos, notifications but has no options for video, GPS-using facilities and @tagging features.