Facebook has announced a new Android app called Facebook Lite, which is a version of Facebook built from scratch to work smoothly with poor data connections and low-end phones. It’s an app for the entire world, namely developing countries where data connectivity is hard to come by.i downloaded this because Facebook Lite is under 1MB, and once installed, it takes up 2.82MB of space on my device. Compare that to the amount of space regular Facebook takes up, which is 195MB. This is not an insubstantial difference.what I dont like is that Facebook Lite doesn’t preload photos in the way that Facebook does. Instead, it downloads low-res versions of photos that you can scroll through in your timeline, and if you actually tap on one, then it will download the higher resolution version.In all honesty, the layout isn’t worse; it’s just different. You still have the same basic tabs — News Feed, Friends Requests, Messages, Notifications, Search, and Options — you just can’t swipe between them; we have to tap the mIn the notification panel below, we can see that the Lite version doesn’t feature the profile photos of anyone, instead opting for small, low-res images to denote whether someone liked or commented on something. The only thing a bit off is that there’s no border between the notifications and the sides of the screen, making it feel squished.Lite is obviously not as attractive as Messenger. Message bubbles are blockier and don’t include timestamps or read receipts. But the core messaging feature is still there. If you found Messenger to be too bloated, Lite might just be the messaging app you were looking for anyway.