Facebook Lite: the light version of the Facebook App

In this guide we will show you what are the advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook Lite in our smartphones compared to the traditional application , as we remember, Facebook Lite is a lighter and more basic version of the Facebook application for Android, which is designed for terminals that are not fully compatible with the application offered by the company for the use of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network, or that, in any case, provide us with a bad experience for any reason.

In this way, we can also decide on which version will be the most interesting to us, because although we can have all the necessary requirements for using the standard Facebook application, we can find ourselves in the situation where we do not need all the functions that the normal Facebook application makes available , while we e Facebook Lite is capable of operating with lower consumption of resources in exchange for limiting some functions of the application.

We can download Facebook Lite for Android from this link, while the iOS version disappeared due to lack of use, so it is no longer available

Simplified Facebook Lite interface

Once we install the application, the first thing we will see even before logging in will be a much more simplified interface that will allow us to better see where things are , although not necessarily in a more organized way compared to the full application.

Likewise, if we have a terminal with dark mode, we can see how the application is not fully compatible with it, to the point that on certain occasions its use will be impossible and we will have to change to the clear mode, something that we will have to take into account if we usually use this type of interface, especially at night.

In the same way, animations are conspicuous by their absence , so that, for example, if we load a comment box from a publication, or we go from one part of the application to another, we will do it almost instantly, without any animation or flourish. We will also talk about this point later when we talk about the performance provided by the application.

Components added or removed in Facebook Lite

Regular users of the social network, specifically if they come from the standard application, will see some missing functions and others will be added , predominating as it could not be otherwise the components removed from the application.

If we remember the launch of Facebook Lite, we will remember that Facebook mentioned that this application has been d designed with a view to reducing the consumption of mobile data that the application has , so that we will see how, for example, the loading of fewer publications would be screen, something that will force us to wait more often for them to load if we go faster than the count.

Other multimedia content such as videos and photos can be viewed directly from our timeline, but if we want to access the comments, we will see how we are taken to another separate page for it, instead of placing an overlay with the comments and the text box as we would find in the normal application.

On the other hand, we will see a novelty of great value, and is that we will not need to install Facebook Messenger on our smartphone to be able to chat with our Facebook friends -although we would lose some other Messenger functions-, s Ino that we can do it directly from the application, something that will save us a lot of resources, time, and above all, mobile data.

In any case, unlike a while ago , Facebook Lite already has a large number of functions that put it practically on a par with the standard Facebook application , so unless we make use of functions somewhat exotic for the average user, we should not miss anything.

Higher performance and lower consumption of resources in Facebook Lite

As it is a much more simplified and rudimentary application, we find that its performance is much higher, while the consumption of resources is reduced in order to save mobile data, but that as a collateral effect it also leads to other advantages, such as lower battery consumption.

Of the same m odo, as with Android animations, where deactivating them gives us a certain placebo effect of having a higher performance, the Facebook application also gives the feeling of providing an increase in speed when changing sections thanks to their absence.

Although this leads to a faster experience, it also does so in a more austere way , less fluid and integrated, something that also coincides with the experience we have had as soon as we install the application , which does not seem to have appropriate support for Android’s dark mode .

Sometimes we have found that some parts of the application took longer than necessary to load, especially just opened, and for now we do not know the exact reason for this behavior , since the application itself is very light and I have tested them We are done using a high-speed metered WiFi network.

The Android data usage metrics in one hour of use with viewing of videos and images give you a consumption of about 122 with an average speed of 70 KB / s in video playback and spikes of up to 1MB / s while loading a lot of content simultaneously , where this last factor is probably the one that can suppose a certain bottleneck when loading all the content of the application after a while without being used, which requires a complete update of the content to be displayed.

The application alone weighs about 10 MB , and after testing, the total weight is less than 60 MB, but this may vary depending on the terminal we have, Android version, cache size as we use the application ion and other factors.

For which users is Facebook Lite?

Facebook Lite is for any user who wants to reduce the consumption of Facebook resources on their terminal, as well as the data consumption of their rate, at the cost of limiting some functions of the application. In the same way, all those who do not want to have Facebook Messenger installed on their smartphone , can also choose to use Facebook Lite as it has this component integrated into the main application .

In the same way, we will have to bear in mind that it can be a rather crude application to use, so if we really have high esteem that the application has animations and overlays to soften their appearance, Facebook Lite might not be the most suitable alternative.

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