Facebook is preparing a service called "Facebook Lite," to target countries where bandwidth is limited, according to The Guardian.

Many expect the service to be a clone of Twitter, but it's actually a "stripped-down version of Facebook."

It is also aimed at mobile markets, such as Asia, the fastest-growing region for Facebook.

According to TechCrunch, Facebook is presently testing this service in India, and plans to launch it in Russia and China.

It is "a faster, simpler version," and "similar to the Facebook experience you get on your mobile phones," according to the company's response to TechCrunch. Like its original version, "Facebook Lite" enables users to make comments, accept requests, write on walls, and check on photos and status updates, The Guardian reported.

With its main servers located in the United States, the company is looking for some ways to better serve its users in the fastest growth markets where the connection speeds are lower. Smaller pictures and lower-resolution videos will be used in the Lite version in order to save on pages' downloading time.

Cherian, a Twitter user, told the Guardian that its pros were "better friends tab" but the cons were that it is "too Twitterlike, too much text and white space, more scrolling, overall ... very boring."

Earlier this week, Facebook bought FriendFeed, a much smaller social network aggregator, for about US$50 million, The Guardian reported.