Facebook confused some users when it accidentally invited too many people to a beta test of what is being referred to as Facebook Lite.

Facebook Lite is basically a stripped down verson of the social network, which includes just status updates, likes, and comments, without things like activity stories, app stories, and embedded content. Facebook Lite has been compared to Twitter and FriendFeed, due to its simplicity. This was probably particularly interesting to those users who experienced it, since Facebook just acquired FriendFeed, and Facebook has been known to go for more Twitteresque approaches in some areas. Was this a sign of Facebook to come?