Facebook, the social networking leader has launched a new compressed version of its application called ‘Facebook Lite’ in India.Facebook launch this lite version to reach out its users who have slow internet connections. The main motive for launching this version in India is to expand the reach of Facebook to a much wider user who do not necessarily use high-end smart phones. Further it will be roll out across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe; till date Facebook has 1.4 bn people on its network globally.
Application of Facebook Lite:
- The facebook ‘lite’ application size is 430 KB as against the full version which is of 30 MB.
- It performs faster even in 2G network and consumes less data.
- Most of the core features are present in this app as of regular application such as News Feed, photos, notifications and status updates.
Note: There are over One billion 2G network user across the world, whereas India has 874 million 2G network users that account roughly 80% of its overall subscribers.
Facebook compressed version ‘Lite’ launched in India
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