How to Install Facebook Lite for PC

Advantages of Facebook Lite

Before explaining how to install the alternative Facebook client, Facebook Lite, we must understand and justify the advantages that the use of this application can bring us. We will make a general review, since this is not the main objective of the guide, but in order to clarify it as much as possible, the Facebook Lite advantages guide is available.

For starters, Facebook Lite has a simplified interface, where it is much easier to see where things are. In turn, due to the simplification, accessing certain corners of the platform may be somewhat more complicated, but for basic operations it will be much more efficient. It should also be noted from the interface that the animations disappear completely, with the aim of consuming fewer resources.

The next most notable point is the difference in functions, since although some are added, more are lost in favor of loading the application less and obtaining better performance on more modest devices. The biggest addition is the ability to be Independent of the Messenger app to chat with our agenda. What is lost along the way is the direct integration of comments in posts (they can be seen after a redirection) or the background loading of posts that are not on our screen.

Finally, the rationale for Facebook Lite: higher performance and lower resource consumption (especially data). The objective of Facebook Lite is to be a distilled version of its older sister, which in exchange for some comforts drastically reduces the use of mobile data or resources of our smartphones, which translates into more resources for other applications or less energy consumption for our batteries. We can understand it just by seeing how little your .apk file occupies

How to Download and Install Facebook Lite for PC

To install the Facebook Lite application on our computer, we need an Android emulator, since there is no native desktop application. In this guide we will follow the example using the emulator blue stacks 4 on a computer with Windows, since it is not the first time it has been seen on Geeknetic. It does not mean that it is the only way, we can do it at ease, even installing Android in a virtual machine.

Well, to download and install the application we have two options:

• Access the Play Store and install it normally.
• Download the .apk file over the internet and load it into the emulator

The first option is the most comfortable and fastest, as well as making sure you don’t enter malicious websites along the way. However, if you do not want to use a Google account in the Play Store, it is perfectly usable to download the installer ourselves.

As we can see, once we access the Play Store from Bluestacks, it is as simple as searching for the application and clicking on “Install”. If we do it this way, you can jump directly to step 3.

If you want the apk, you have to follow a previous procedure:

1. First we access the official Web and click on the blue download button.

2. Then from Bluestacks we press the key combination Ctrl+Shift+B or click on the sixth icon from the top in the sidebar as indicated in the image.

From the file explorer that will open, we must locate the .apk file that we have downloaded, which most likely has an icon similar to the Bluestacks logo.

3. In either case, after a very short wait, we will be able to see the Facebook Lite icon indicating that the application is ready to be used from the “My games” section.

As shown, after opening the app and logging in normally, we have the Facebook Lite app working perfectly!

It should be noted that if you are not using Bluestacks, the procedure may vary. In almost any emulator we can access the Play Store and install applications or upload our own .apk filesbut the steps to achieve it they may not be the same.

conclusion

As we have seen, the procedure to install Facebook Lite is not a complicated one at all. Essentially it consists of replicating the steps of how we would do it from our own Android smartphones, only with a few extra steps since we would do it from Windows.

We hope it has been helpful!

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