Facebook Lite fails
Sunday, 27th September 2009 — lut4rp
A couple of weeks ago, Facebook introduced a "lighter, faster alternative" called Facebook Lite. Though initially, it was aimed at users from countries with slow internet connections and marginal broadband penetration (like India :-) they soon realized a lot of people liked the Lite way of working. I agree, Lite is fast and slick, but it doesn't have apps >:) That to me at least was a major switch point.
I was one of those "privileged souls" who had the good fortune to beta test Facebook Lite. So I can switch to Lite if I use the lite.facebook.com URL or use the full thingy if I go to facebook.com. But, ever since Facebook finally rolled out Lite to sections of users across India (dunno if they did so elsewhere as well), the users who accepted the "Try Facebook Lite" message can *NOT* go back.
People (including my sister and hordes from college :-p) have tried to manually change the URL to facebook.com, tried to check account settings, tried flaming the Lite fan page (see below), tried doing everything plainly possible without any avail. Tried logging in again but it just redirects to lite.facebook.com. Oh, and no official word from Facebook on this yet. Are you listening, Facebook?
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What brilliant comments.
What brilliant comments. People are hopelessly addicted to facebook. :D
F for Fail they got 1 dev
F
for Fail
they got 1 dev ?
reminds me of the crap at hotmail, once u switched to the new theme u were stucked for like months till they kinda fixed
this is what happends when everything is hardcoded, instead of modular based
go drupal ^^
Great post... I don't know
Great post... I don't know why people stuck to it for several hours ?
Thanks for this post.. keep sharing...
There is a option to switch
There is a option to switch back to Default Facebook Version on Top Right . Check it out !!
Buy yeah , Facebook lite sucks !!
buddy i didnt find any option
buddy i didnt find any option on the top right to rollback to default version.
its working buddy just go to
its working buddy just go to setting -> default site -> click on regular facebook -> save
buddy just go to setting ->
buddy just go to setting -> default site -> click on regular facebook -> save
Wow, those people sound like
Wow, those people sound like they are going through withdrawal, very scary. I logged on to Facebook and switched to lite out of curiosity. Logged back out and back into regular Facebook. I guess they fixed it.
"Facebook Lite is the fastest
"Facebook Lite is the fastest way to keep in touch with friends and family."--Maybe its true but it makes u isolate from your friends posts..So facebook lite fails in any case..
Get to the bottom of the
Get to the bottom of the screen, at the bottom of the page you'll have a feedback option.
In the feedback option, you can write a feedback to facebook, recommend facebook lite to other friends of yours already on facebook or switch back.
To switch back to the old settings-
Above feedback text box, you have an option to switch back to the old settings.
Hit on that and you are back with the old facebook interface people love
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