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and whether you need to log in
to more than one Facebook account on your phone
or you don't like the fact that between the Facebook app
and the Facebook Messenger app,
it's using up a big chunk of your phone's memory
and battery life,
there is a solution.
It's called Facebook Lite.
Now, Facebook isn't going to make this available to you
if you live in the US,
but you can install it if you want to.
I have.
Let me show you how.
Even if you're able to find Facebook Lite
in the Google Play store,
if you're in the United States
you'll get this little notice here that says,
"This item is not available in your country."
Yet 50 million people have downloaded it,
what do they know that we don't?
Facebook Lite is just what it sounds like,
it's a trimmed-down version of Facebook.
It doesn't have as many fancy graphics.
It doesn't have those little floating chat heads around,
and so forth.
It does a lot of what the Facebook
and Facebook Messenger apps do,
but in a very slimmed-down fashion.
One that doesn't use nearly as much memory on your phone.
It doesn't use as much processor,
it doesn't go out as often using up your data.
Facebook Lite is aimed at less-powerful phones,
which translates as less-expensive phones,
so, for a lot of people in the world,
that will be the phone that they would be using.
Facebook Lite is very popular all over the world,
but they don't want you using it here.
They'd like you to use the fancy version that they have.
I'm not sure if it's tied in with ads that they put in there
or what, but for whatever reason
you can't go to the Google Play store
and download Facebook Lite onto your phone
in the United States.
Some people have kindly posted the Facebook Lite app
on the internet,
so, if you go into your phone
and you have to do this at your own risk,
I'm not telling you, you should do this.
I did it and it worked fine
but this is how you can get viruses on your phone.
You can go out on the internet
and grab an app that looks good
and install it.
If it didn't come from the Google Play store,
you may be putting some bad software on your phone.
My experience was good, however,
so I'll put a link down below this video
to where I got the file from iPhone,
if you want to try that,
but it's entirely at your own risk.
Anyhow, somebody took the Facebook Lite file
that you would get from the Google Play store,
put it out on a website.
You turn off the security feature on your phone
that says, "Don't allow apps from other places
"to be installed,"
then you download and install that app.
You can then turn that feature back on
about not allowing other apps to be installed
once it's on your phone
and you set it up and use it with your Facebook account.
So, you can have your personal Facebook account
with regular Facebook app,
and then if you have a business account
that you're running,
or for whatever reason if you have another Facebook account
you need to access,
rather than log in and log out each time on your phone
to the one main Facebook app,
you can just go to Facebook, or Facebook Lite.
If you're going to give this a try,
you'll need to go into the Settings on your phone,
and you might have a different version of Android,
so it looks a little different,
but under Security, you should find something like this
Device Administration
and to allow installation of apps from unknown sources
and here a warning pops up
telling you this can make your phone more vulnerable
to attacks and hacks and viruses, and so forth,
as I mentioned.
So, if you're squeamish, don't do this
but if you are fed up with Facebook using up
so much memory and battery time,
but you still need to get in there and access
the things that people might be posting
or sending to you,
I think this is a good way to go.
Next, go to your browser,
and search for Facebook Lite,
spelled L-I-T-E.
You can see it here as, "Oh, look,
"I can get it at the Google Play store."
No, no, you'll go right to that page
that I showed you earlier, where it says,
"This item is not available in your country."
Let's scroll a little, and in the first few entries
you should see one for APKMirror,
and again I'll put a link to this down below the video here.
This is the one where you're going to go
and get the file that will install Facebook Lite.
At the top of the page is the latest upload,
that means the one that they have uploaded.
This works way back with Android 2.2.
It's backwards compatible
with those older, slower phones,
and it's only half a megabyte in size, tiny.
I'm going to click to download.
On the next page that comes up
there are ads.
There are always lots of ads.
You have to scroll down, you can read all
the more detailed information about the file.
Down, under another ad here, get it on the Play store.
We know that doesn't work,
so you're going to go to download.
Another warning.
This type of file can cause damage.
If you're really sure, go ahead and OK.
Up at the top, in the Notification,
I've got a little arrow showing download,
so, I'm gonna pull this down and then click on it.
Here's what it looks like for me when I did that.
Now tap on it.
These are all the permissions.
As you know, Facebook is in everywhere,
and if all this hasn't scared you off,
then you can go ahead and continue
when you installed it.
On my phone anyway, the next thing that comes up
is Google saying, "Well, if you're gonna do this anyway
"will you at least let us monitor your phone
"and check it to see if there's any suspicious activity
going on."
Sure.
App is installed, and here we are.
I have logged in.
I now have an icon for it.
It doesn't list alphabetically under 'F' as Facebook.
It lists as 'L' for Lite.
Once you know that, it's easy to find.
Let's open it up.
As you see in the list here,
most of the stuff you can do with Facebook
and Facebook Messenger
is included here.
You see, you've got the chat option here,
whereas with regular Facebook,
if you'd like to use that,
you need to go and install Facebook Messenger.
And photos, and pages,
and without showing you some personal stuff
in the Facebook Lite app on those other pages,
I can't really show you how they work
but it's very simple graphically, like this,
and this is recommending some other pages
I might want to like.
Let's take a look at this Nerd Bot one.
I don't necessarily know why this consulting service
was recommended to me,
but to look through their page,
it's just like regular Facebook.
Here's another recommended page for me,
Toy Review Land.
As you see the posts and pictures,
you can like them, you can comment,
you can see other people's comments.
It's just a real simplified version of Facebook.
I really like the Facebook Lite app.
As an app, if the somewhat bloated Facebook app,
looked more like Facebook Lite,
I might like it a little better.
The regular Facebook and Facebook Messenger app
together take up quite a chunk of your active memory
and they tend to go out and use your data
a lot more than this Facebook Lite app.
I don't know if you noticed when I was scrolling
the pictures in the Facebook Lite,
when you're looking at someone's page,
they don't preload.
That's just the little place-holder rectangle there.
Until you actually scroll,
when it sees that it's on the screen,
then it goes and gets the picture.
It's designed for phones that aren't as powerful
and people who don't have really fast internet.
If you don't mind hanging out
in the gray area of the internet,
Facebook Lite might be a good choice for you too.
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