Facebook is going on the offensive against the rising Twitter star with new initiatives aimed at streamlining social networking. Facebook launched Facebook Lite and Tagging on Thursday to invent updating simpler and more social.

As its name suggests, Facebook Lite is a lighter version of Facebook. It was designed for citizens with slower connections. The stripped-down version loads faster.

Facebook Lite is available in the U.S. and India, and the company plans to roll it out in China, Russia

and other countries. That makes Facebook’s intentions suspect, since most users in the U.S. have good connections.

However, Facebook issued a statement about the U.S. launch: “We decided to roll out Facebook Lite in the U.S. to give users a simple, expedient alternative to facebook.com, and hope that it will fill that need.”

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