--- description: Facebook is giving employees the opportunity to experience the slow mobile Internet speeds found in developing countries. title: Facebook's '2G Tuesdays' Slow Down Internet for Employees image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d170b651a61471a/69886e6f428a9e7bc1ccfcf9/facebook-logo2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Facebook's '2G Tuesdays' Slow Down Internet for Employees ## Video: Facebook Is Planning Virtual Reality Apps For Everyone [Watch (HLS stream): Facebook Is Planning Virtual Reality Apps For Everyone](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ncI9ZLvX.m3u8) (1:49)  _Published 2015-02-18. Facebook wants all its users to be able to create and upload content for virtual reality systems such as Oculus Rift._ by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 28, 2015 4:33 AM CUT  Facebook's logo is pictured on a phone in Berlin, Germany on Oct. 31 2014. Facebook's logo is pictured on a phone in Berlin, Germany on Oct. 31 2014.Lukas Schulze—AP by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 28, 2015 4:33 AM CUT 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. 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… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebooks-2g-tuesdays-slow-down-internet-employees-n452466?cid=par-time-tech%5F20151028 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4090176/facebook-internet-2g-connection-event/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4090176/facebook-internet-2g-connection-event/"},"headline":"Facebook's '2G Tuesdays' Slow Down Internet for Employees","datePublished":"2015-10-28T04:33:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:06:51.656Z","description":"If you don't remember how slow 2G was, consider yourself lucky","url":"https://time.com/4090176/facebook-internet-2g-connection-event/","keywords":["Tech","Social Media","Internet","facebook"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d170b651a61471a/69886e6f428a9e7bc1ccfcf9/facebook-logo2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d170b651a61471a/69886e6f428a9e7bc1ccfcf9/facebook-logo2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Facebook","caption":"Facebook","creditText":"Lukas Schulze—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4090176/facebook-internet-2g-connection-event/","name":"Facebook's '2G Tuesdays' Slow Down Internet for Employees"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Facebook Is Planning Virtual Reality Apps For Everyone","description":"Facebook wants all its users to be able to create and upload content for virtual reality systems such as Oculus Rift.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ncI9ZLvX/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-02-18T17:05:11.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ncI9ZLvX.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4090176/facebook-internet-2g-connection-event/","duration":"PT1M49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4090176/facebook-internet-2g-connection-event/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```