Facebook is on a tweak and kill spree. It recently tweaked one of its feature called become a fan for fanpages and changed it to ‘Like’. Whats more it even made changes to the info page where it would be aggregating information via wikipedia for certain fanpages. Check screenshot below:
And this is not all. Facebook has killed the much hyped facebook lite which was launched as a simplistic light weight version of Facebook (Much more like a twitter competitor). We had questioned the use case of a facebook lite when it became live for India. We were not too convinced then and many of our readers as well as the web in general showcased their dislike towards the size zero facebook version.
All in all it does seem that facebook has backtracked from twitter territory atleast for now. It remains to be seen though as to how this facebook vs twitter battle works out. With twitter adding celebrities by the dozen! (Latest from India is Salman Khan). It wont be too long before it start making a dent into facebook atleast in India.
Facebook Lite itself ripped off the idea for a slimmed down version of Facebook from innovative Greasemonkey script “Facebook Purity” (now called Fluff Busting Purity due to legal reasons)
the script strips out all the spammy crap the site spews out, leaving a much leaner cleaner homepage and newsfeeds. The script gives many options to let you choose which messages you want to see, which Facebook itself does not offer to its users.
The script is available for Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari. You can get the script here: http://www.fbpurity.com