17 Aug 2009 by Fiona No Comments

I was interested to hear that Facebook is currently trialling a new messenger service, which potentially could rival Twitter. While at the moment it’s only being tested in India, there are rumours it could come over to the UK in the near future.

Facebook says: ‘Similar to the Facebook experience you get on your mobile phones, Facebook ‘Lite’ is a fast-loading, simplified version of Facebook that enables people to make comments, accept Friend requests, write on people’s Walls, and look at photos and status updates.

One of the big benefits of Facebook Lite is that it will be much faster and will be much more streamlined – a big help if you’re accessing Facebook from a country with low bandwidth.

I think this could be great way to encourage a younger audience to become even more engaged with micro-blogging and that both sites are significantly different that they can exist in the same space without competing.

Recently, a lot of people have criticised that Facebook has become cluttered with a deluge of games, quizzes and personality tests. It’s good to see Facebook listening to its customers and adapting to maintain its market share.

This development has certainly caused a stir in the social networking arena and I’m excited to learn more as this story continues…