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Facebook started its new simplified version’s beta test today, I got a message on the top of the profile page saying:

“You have been selected as a beta tester for Facebook Lite! We are building a faster, simpler version of Facebook that we call Facebook Lite. It’s not finished yet and we have plenty of kinks to work out, but we would love to get your feedback on what we have built so far”

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The start page consists only of the news stories (no application things wow!!). The right nav bar has been cut real intelligently. App requests, highlights and connect with friend’s columns are gone. People you may know and sponsors (obviously) remain. Top nav bar has the Home and name buttons missing. The page has no unnecessary frills, probably to try catch up with the growing twitter trends. No curvy corners for the lite version, the page loads and renders really fast. Unlike twitter the main page after login doesn’t allow you to write updates, you have to got to the profile page to write. (They must seriously add this missing feature). The main page screenshot with some privacy edits looks like this:

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