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Facebook Shuts Down Facebook Lite

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I really liked the idea of Facebook Lite, but it always felt significantly slower, and content was often quite stale, rendering a product that seemed awkward to use and possibly even incomplete.

This eventually drove me back to regular Facebook. Guess it's time to stop hoping for improvements so I can switch back.

This was the only way I found Facebook tolerable and they shut it down. sigh Like Apple, Facebook somehow manages to regularly insult their users without suffering the slightest damage for it.

Perhaps I can cobble together a facsimile for myself with Yahoo Pipes...

Here's a little hint that I've been preaching to everyone who complains that fb is unusable (I suspect due to all the farmwars and mafiaville junk): if you click the "hide" button next to the post you can choose to ban the application rather than the person. And this blocks all posts from that application from any friend. You do it once to block out every annoying app you don't care to see and then you only have to add a new one once every couple of weeks as they come out. As a result, my vanilla fb feed is as readable as the lite.fb version.

hiding an app with the fb "hide" button only hides it from your feed, it doesnt stop that app getting your private info or sending you invitations to add the app.

blocking applications is the best way of halting the tidal wave of these annoying apps, Facebook Purity http://www.fbpurity.com adds a "block app" button which makes it a much quicker process to block the applications. ever wonder why facebook dont provide a "block app" button, because the application developers still want to access all your data and be able to send you invitations to add your app, and they and facebook dont want to give you the option because it helps the apps spread virally, and the constant updates/invites etc from apps are one factor that makes fb "sticky" or in other words keeps people on the site refreshing the page, and increasing ad impressions.

is this still necessary if you've never opted into the app? I've never played farmville or allowed it to see any of my data, but lots of my friends have. does this mean that farmville can see privileged information?

this might help a little: http://www.fbpurity.com/

So weak.

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