When Facebook Lite launched just under two weeks ago, my immediate reaction was a sigh of relief, followed by the question “how long will it take them to trash up this one, too?” When I asked that question, I fully expected to find out by Christmas. I thought wrong.

It took them eleven days.

That’s right, it took them less than two weeks to begin trashing up Facebook Lite just as its unholy predecessor had been before it. I took note that on the day of release, that they had already placed the ominous “Create an Ad” sidebar, and it looked suspiciously devoid of content.

Now that column appears to have been invaded by what has become the bane of Facebook users everywhere — trashy ad placements. So now that one single, misleading, trashy ad has shown up all by its lonesome, how long will it take for Facebook to populate the sidebar with two of them?

I find your lack of thumbs disturbing…

Allowing the trashy ads into Facebook Lite is one thing, but not bringing the larger Facebook’s only countermeasures along with them is another. Without the seemingly worthless thumbs up and thumbs down voting feature attached to these ads, users are left without recourse and entirely at the mercy of the ad-providers. What began as a refuge from the relentless onslaught of Facebook is almost surely doomed to its namesake’s destiny.

You can say that I’m just making hasty generalizations, but we are talking about Facebook here, after all.