Introduced at the recent Mobile World Congress show held in Barcelona, Facebook Zero aims to make Facebook on the mobile web more accessible to everyone, everywhere and to allow operators to encourage more mobile phone usage.

The Zero Facebook website is already live, but consumers will only be able to use it once it has been adopted by networks. With Facebook claiming that over 100 million people use the site globally, you can expect this to happen very soon.

According to the GSM Association, people spend half of their time online on their mobiles on Facebook. GSM also went onto say that in December alone 2.2 billion minutes were spent on the popular social networking site.

Tim Gibbon, spokesperson for web experts, the Social Media Group, said: “Facebook is a social utility, so it is naturally looking to work with mediums that are relevant to its audiences. Mobile phones are a natural progression because of the sheer number of them.”

Facebook already offer a Lite version of their website aimed at developing countries, where Internet connections can be very slow. Consumers can follow Facebooks example and help those in developing nations by trading in the old mobiles. Handsets are then sent to these nations, giving the population the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of a mobile phone.