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 Facebook has pretty much reached saturation here in the tech-saturated west, and so its next target—the target of many other tech companies as well—are emerging markets. But it can be hard to really grasp what it's like to live with the sort of tech that's available in India until you do it yourself, which is why Facebook's starting up 2G Tuesdays to foist slow internet on its employees. 
  
 Slow internet doesn't have to mean slow-loading apps and pages. If websites are appropriately efficient and barebones, they can be pretty usable even on slow or data-throttled connections. That's the idea behind Internet.org, a joint project between Facebook and several other companies. It's a project that's equal parts benevolent and troubling; Internet.org will let those in developing nations access highly-optimized webpages for free, but ultimately Facebook holds the keys to who is let in, which goes against the concept of "net neutrality" and sets the social networking giant up for an unfair advantage. 
  
 According to Business Insider, Facebook's 2G Tuesdays will give employees a chance to see what this feels like first-hand, and help them understand not only how slow 2G can be, but how Facebook performs on such a connection. 
  
 For context, even the best 2G speeds tend to top out around one Megabit per second (Mbps). 3G is closer to 6 Mbps, and 4G (what your phone probably uses) can get up to 15 Mbps. The average internet speed in the United States, meanwhile, is about 11 Mbps, actually quite low for such a teched-up nation. 
  
 Fortunately (or unfortunately?) the name "2G Tuesdays" is a bit of a misnomer. Should employees opt in to the experiment—it's not mandatory—the 2G connection only lasts for an hour. But hey, you've got to get some work done, right? 
  
 Source: Business Insider ||||| Facebook is launching a new initiative called "2G Tuesdays" that will give all employees an opportunity to see what using the app with an incredibly slow connection feels like and help close the "empathy gap" between Silicon Valley and emerging markets. 
  
 For most people, the stark differences will likely be jarring. 
  
 Engineering director Tom Alison remembers the first time he opened Facebook on a phone with a 2G connection. 
  
 "I felt like, 'Whoa!'" Alison tells Business Insider. "It definitely tested my patience — it felt like parts of the product were just broken." 
  
 Although most people with smartphones in the US use faster 3G or even 4G connections, millions of people all over the world are coming online for the first time with 2G. With that kind of connection, a webpage can take over two minutes to load. 
  
 That's why Alison and his team of emerging-markets engineers have spent so much time reworking Facebook's News Feed to optimize it for super-slow network speeds. As part of their job, they regularly use phones that simulate 2G and actually take trips to places like India and Kenya to get a better understanding of how people there use the product. 
  
 But because not all employees get to go on international trips, Facebook is instituting "2G Tuesdays." 
  
 When a Facebook employee logs in to the app any Tuesday morning, they'll see a prompt at the top of their News Feed asking whether they want to try out the slower connection for an hour. 
  
 "For that next hour, their experience on Facebook will be very much like the experience that millions of people around the world have on Facebook on a 2G connection," Alison says. "They're going to see the places that we need to improve our product, but they're also going to see the places where we have made a lot of progress." 
  
 Earlier this month, Facebook highlighted some of the updates and improvements that it's made for the app in emerging markets. 
  
 For example, Facebook developed an open-sourced Network Connection Class system that lets its app figure out a user's connection speed on the fly. It will then show different News Feed stories — for example, favoring status updates and links versus videos and photos on a super-slow connection — and prioritize loading things that the user is looking at versus partially loading a dozen pieces of content at once. 
  
 "You really experience your own Facebook in a much different way on 2G," Alison says. "It's really a visceral feeling when you see your own content on this type of connection." 
  
 He anticipates that many employees will opt in to 2G Tuesdays — 2G Mondays just didn't sound nearly as catchy, he jokes — to get a better understanding of what the internet feels like for people in different parts of the world and to help report issues and make suggestions that his team might not have thought of. ||||| As part of its effort to develop apps and services for mobile markets worldwide, Facebook has begun giving employees the opportunity to experience for themselves the slow mobile Internet speeds found in developing countries. "2G Tuesdays" are a new weekly occurrence, during which employees connecting to Facebook at work will be asked whether they want to limit their speed to 2G for an hour. 
  
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 If you don't remember how slow 2G was, consider yourself lucky — it's a fraction of a fraction of the 4G speeds many of us enjoy today. 
  
 "We hope this will help us understand how people with 2G connectivity use our product, so we can address issues and pain points in future builds," wrote Facebook product manager Chris Marra in a blog post describing the recurring event. 
  
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 Of course, in places like India and Africa, slow connections aren't opt-in, and they're slow 24 hours a day, every day of the week. So this little experiment has some pretty serious limitations in currying empathy among the social network's employees. 
  
 Still, it may help engineers used to gigabit connections better understand the limitations under which millions are using Facebook — or unable to use it, as the case may be. The social network is already working to improve its services for slow connections, and also pursuing a number of technologies for providing Internet access to distant and underserved areas. ||||| By Chris Marra, Emerging Markets Product Manager and Alex Sourov, Emerging Markets Engineering Manager 
  
 People are coming online at a staggering rate in emerging markets and, in most cases, are doing so on mobile via 2G connections. In order to make sure another billion people can connect using Facebook we need to design features of the product that work seamlessly regardless of mobile network and device. What this means for those of us on the News Feed team is making sure people can load and scroll through News Feed on any connection speed. We’ve worked on a few updates recently to improve the experience so it works seamlessly and quickly for people in all parts of the world. 
  
 Taking connection speed into account 
  
 There are many factors we take into account in News Feed to make sure you’re seeing the most relevant stories for you – even the type of device you’re on or the speed of your mobile network or wifi connection. Taking this into account helps us determine what kinds of stories to show you in News Feed. For example, if you are on a slower internet connection that won’t load videos, News Feed will show you fewer videos and more status updates and links. 
  
 In order to simplify the way we distinguish between different types of networks, we developed an open-sourced Network Connection Class, which is a way for us to determine how fast your connection is. With recent updates, we can now start retrieving more stories and photos while you are reading News Feed on slower connections to make sure stories are always available as you keep scrolling. So if you are reading a post from your friend about their weekend, but doing so on a slower connection, we will load more stories while you’re reading so they are ready for you when you’re done reading that post. 
  
 Downloading stories you’re looking at first 
  
 If you are on a poor internet connection and your News Feed is loading slowly, we will first download the story you’re currently looking at, rather than download a series of News Feed stories. For example, if you are looking at a photo your friend posted or a photo from a Page you’ve liked, that isn’t fully downloaded, we prioritize that photo over loading a story below it that you aren’t currently looking at, so you can see the most important photos you’re viewing as quickly as possible. 
  
 We’re also investing in the best image formats for photo loading. We recently moved to a Progressive JPEG photo format which allows us to start showing lower-quality versions of photos while they’re still downloading, so you can see some of the photo instead of nothing. This lowers the amount of data required to send photos to be loaded, and speeds up the wait time for photos. We made this change for iOS at the beginning of the year and now use the same technology on both iOS and Android. 
  
 Showing you stories when on particularly poor connections 
  
 Sometimes we are unable to load any new News Feed stories if a connection is particularly congested or poor quality. People have told us that when they visit News Feed they’d rather see stories that may have loaded on a previous visit than not see any stories at all. So now when you leave News Feed and then come back again on a bad connection, we will display previously downloaded stories. You can scroll down and see stories from your previous visit to News Feed until you are able to connect again to a mobile network. For example, if you were to open News Feed on an airplane you’d still be able to read stories you scrolled past previously, when you did have a connection, instead of just waiting for anything to load. 
  
 Even though we load stories from previous visits to News Feed, we don’t re-retrieve these stories that you have already seen, so we aren’t wasting more data. However, if something about the story has changed — for example if the number of comments and likes has changed or if the post was deleted — we will make updates when you see the story again. ||||| People are coming online at a fast rate in emerging markets. In most cases, they are doing so on mobile via 2G connections. But on a typical 2G network, it can take several minutes to download a webpage. That doesn't make for a great experience when sharing content with friends and family. To build for a global audience like ours, we know that we need to design features that work seamlessly even on a 2G network. 
  
 We’re always developing tools and systems to address this. Earlier this year we released Connection Class, which helps you smartly segment based on network performance in real time. We also built a tool to simulate network conditions, called Augmented Traffic Control. 
  
 While both of these tools are useful for developers looking to simulate and account for slow network conditions, they don't solve for everyday decision-making around how a product should function or look. Today we're taking another step toward better understanding by implementing “2G Tuesdays” for Facebook employees. On Tuesdays, employees will get a pop-up that gives them the option to simulate a 2G connection. We hope this will help us understand how people with 2G connectivity use our product, so we can address issues and pain points in future builds. 
  
 Today's effort was born in a conference room. Our team was discussing what it would take to bring Augmented Traffic Control directly into the app so people could test network conditions no matter where they are. One person asked whether we thought the work would be effective — would people actually use it? A team member suggested that we just start opting people into a 2G experience on a certain day of the week; another quickly suggested the pithy name, and then we got to work. Giving employees a seamless way to empathize with the people using Facebook on networks like this brings us a step closer to helping everyone use our product in a quick and seamless way. 
  
 Happy 2G Tuesday! ||||| Facebook Inc. is offering its employees a chance to slow down – but only for an hour. 
  
 The social network on Tuesday launched “2G Tuesdays” to let its staffers experience the social network as if on a 2G connection. The idea is to simulate the experience of Facebook users in regions with sluggish networks – a major area of growth for Facebook – who might use the site differently. |||||
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Understanding breeds empathy. At least, that's the Facebook philosophy when it comes to Internet speed in developing nations, which is why once a week the company now encourages employees to dump their super-fast speeds at work and opt for a 2G experience, NBC News reports. The initiative is called "2G Tuesdays," and while it's voluntary and only lasts an hour, the company is hoping it will open workers' eyes to what people in places like India and Africa deal with when trying to log on. "We hope this will help us understand how people with 2G connectivity use our product, so we can address issues and pain points in future builds," product manager Chris Marra writes in a blog post. "Giving employees a seamless way to empathize with the people using Facebook … brings us a step closer to helping everyone use our product in a quick and seamless way." Just how slow is 2G? Popular Mechanics explains the fastest 2G service hovers at around 1 megabit per second, while 3G offers 6Mbps and smartphones using 4G can handle around 15Mbps (the average US Internet speed is around 11Mbps). "On the lower end of 2G networks, it can take about two minutes to download a Web page," a Facebook rep says, per the Wall Street Journal. Tom Allison, Facebook's engineering director, tells Business Insider his first time dabbling in 2G "definitely tested my patience. It felt like parts of the product were just broken." It makes sense for Facebook to focus on these regions: More than four-fifths of its users reside outside the US and Canada, the company says via the Journal. It's already been upping its mobile game in those places, including streamlining picture and story loading during slow connections, per a Facebook release. (Under a new policy, Facebook will let you know if a nation-state hacks you.)