Facebook Lite… dead ‘n gone?
Was wondering today whether anyone still uses the much-trumpeted Facebook Lite?
The day it was rumoured to be launching (12 Aug) I run a search on Google at 9:15am and there were only 2,500 search results for Facebook Lite. As the day continued, and as the frenzy mounted, Google began discovering and indexing more and more mentions. By 6pm that same day there were 73,000 mentions.
Today there are 43.3 million mentions. In anyone’s books, that’s a lot.
Everyone I have spoken to about Facebook Lite, tried it once, and has never been back. I think it was a little too late and ill-conceived from the start. The only use I can see for it would be like the training wheels on kids bikes - make all new FB sign-ups use it for a limited time to “get the hang” of FB before graduating to the real deal.
After all, when last did you consume a “lite” version of a product that tasted better?
