The
CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced the release of a new Facebook
app called Facebook lite. This app is said to be designed for users in
developing countries where they experience slow mobile network connectivity.
The app is billed to roll out first in Asia then Africa, Latin America and Europe
as the week goes by.
Zuckerberg
wrote on his Facebook page yesterday:
‘’We just launched Facebook Lite, a new app
designed to serve people a faster experience on slower mobile networks and
Android phones around the world.
We built
Facebook Lite to be faster, more reliable and very data efficient even when
internet bandwidth is at a minimum. The app is less than 1 MB in size and takes
just a few seconds to download.We’re starting to roll out Facebook Lite across Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, and it will be available in the Play store. We’re going to keep working to serve the entire world, and we'll keep building tools for people in every community until we're all connected’’