Stupid Bebo Crap

dbnavan

All schools are now gatewayed in the NCTE who monitor all traffic to and from schools. I installed 4 school networks in last 2 weeks and all, proxy sheilding sites are blocked, the way the NCTE work, is they allow what they want you to use, rather then block what they dont want you to see.

Pretty fool proofed from what I have seen

Creamy Goodness

let's hope they don't allow them to view boards.ie so they won't ask us how to get around it.

mountainyman

On myspace you put up pictures of yourself, clips of your favourite songs, a little blog and your friends leae you messages.

So what?

what the enfer is good about that? It is a load of rubbish.

So myspacers:

What is so good about myspace?

It makes no sense.

MM

Femelade

i have a few friends that have gone to oz for the year, its nice to see how they are doing and look at their pics. My brother moved to edinburgh 2 days ago, not sure when he'll be back...he'll be in contact with me through bebo i'm sure.

petes

Another one...

Creamy Goodness

myspace is great for...

1. you're looking to broaden your music taste without having to buy cd's or itunes tracks.

2. you're in a band and want a way of releasing your music to potentially millions of people without any cost involved (like setting up a website/hosting etc...)

this is the only reason why i use myspace.

28064212

What's so good about Boards? All you get is a little bit of information about what strangers think about stuff.

Maybe people like MySpace because they can put up their own pictures and songs to share, write a blog, and get messages from their friends.

Sad Professor

i hate bebo. i deleted my account just a few days ago. i liked the concept of it at first. its a great place for getting in contact and staying in touch with old friends from school/college, people you haven't seen in years and the like. but its turned into something awful since.

now its just a place to share boring pics of yourself in a pub/club holding a beer, or on holiday holding a beer, or talking about how you had too many beers last night etc etc etc.

personally i think this social networking thing is just a fad. bebo is already starting to become uncool.

Stephen

myspace/bebo/etc are basically blogs for people who don't want/need to know how to set up a blog themselves.

Sad Professor

Stephen wrote:

myspace/bebo/etc are basically blogs for people who don't want/need to know how to set up a blog themselves.

thats it in a nutshell. although i think it might be more accurate to say website as most people (on bebo anyway) don't really use the blog feature, except for crappy jokes.

muppetkiller

I got laid thanks to myspace hehe .
Now anyone else need a reason to use it

But to be fair I thought it was pretty sad myself until I was contacted by an old friend from the states and I use it like I'd use email..

it's just email with pics...Although I do find it funny and kinda Ironic how people Bitc% about myspace and bebo on a internet Forum...

thelordofcheese

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Bebo as a concept isn't a bad idea. Give people a customisable webpage/blog thingy, and then let them form social groups.

Whats wrong with Bebo, is what's wrong with EVERYTHING on-line that tries of create a community.
People. Or more to the point, people who are arseholes.

For example the last message I got before I closed my Bebo A/C was one that warned me of the dire consequences of not spamming the living jebus out of my meagre friends list, because bebo was "running out of names".

What is really amazing about these things is the list of people to whom the spam has been quite willingly forwarded to. Over 100 people got the "send this so we know who is active" mail, by my count/rough estimate, and that's just the one trail, so you can see how something like this would explode like a swollen pimple.

Anyway, back to the point. Bebo is a magnet for arseholes.
The kind of arseholes who think it's "funny" to send this kind of gack to unsuspecting people, who in turn become arseholes by forwarding this muck on, out of genuine fear or just "for the fun of it".

And thus bebo becomes a victim of it's own ambition. By making it possible to link people you greatly increase they ways in which people can spam each other to death. On live journal or some other blog a meme does the rounds, fair enough. It has it's life cycle, and generally goes away after a bit. On bebo it'll live forever, and because of the mail feature the more retarded stuff gets send around. Nobody on a blog would consider posting "put this in your journal, so we know that you are still using live journal, OR THE WORLD WILL EXPLODE!".
They'd be laughed right of the internet. But the mail thing makes it even more anonymous, so you can shower people with any old gack.

Blogs or forums aren't perfect either, but at least they aren't showering me with rubbish...

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Sarky

Cremo wrote:

2. you're in a band and want a way of releasing your music to potentially millions of people without any cost involved (like setting up a website/hosting etc...)

M.C. Dicko has been replaced

monkeyfudge

Cremo wrote:

2. you're in a band and want a way of releasing your music to potentially millions of people without any cost involved (like setting up a website/hosting etc...)

Too bad you sign over all the rights to your music to Rupert Murdoch in the process. Always read the fine print!

Doomspell

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

You stalked me!

Why can't you link?

Uh...no! I clicked on nightwishs' link, so I was talking to her. Why would I stalk you

Doomspell

Bond-007 wrote:

http://unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=50&si=1643111&issue_id=14280

From todays indo:


The end of Bebo is nigh!

Um! No the end is not near for bebo. Simply because, they can ban them from veiwing bebo/myspace at school but they can't ban it from your own house! Sure the schools mightn't like it but they can't install crap into the students personal computers. Sure they won't be able to go on it from school but they will still be able to acess it from home:D

Tar.Aldarion

Doomspell wrote:

Uh...no! I clicked on nightwishs' link, so I was talking to her. Why would I stalk you

Oh so she pointed you towards stalking me
or else you did stalk me or you wouldn't have known it was me, admit it!


You'd stalk me for the thrill, I daresay.

Doomspell

Only you would get a 'thrill' out of stalking someone:D

Tar.Aldarion

*doomspell added to list*

/Stalk mode

Doomspell

/laughs

/drinks tea


/watches tar running around the house and hiding behind plant pots......


*waves to tar*

*tar waves back:D*

Tar.Aldarion

Muahaha, what a nice background you have.

Matt Holck

I skalk more but

all that energy

ok, yes
I love you
and I mean it

a
no, I haven't read that

Chakar

There's definitely gonna be trouble on Bebo in less than a year due to the enormous amount of people.Thats already happening with myspace so should happen with Bebo.

Rhyme

/me stalks Tar, Matthewthebig, Sarky etc...

Thanks Rozabeez for opening the door to chaos.

Tar.Aldarion

Before her nobody knew I had a bebo, now look at me. My fingers can hardly keep up with all this clicking of confiming friend nonsense.


I may say this on every thread that I see you rhyme, awesome sig.

Rhyme

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I may say this on every thread that I see you rhyme, awesome sig.

It was deserved... i owe you peoples a lot.

Also, must actually start to add you people rather than leaving comments and disappearing into the ether.

The Bollox

does anyone still go onto Bebo? I used to trawl it daily when I was in college, but now that college is finished for the summer I don't go on anymore, and have not heard anyone talking about it recently.

looder

still use it bu nly to contact friends gone 2 yankland for da summer.. roll on september when all i'll do is play pool and go on bebo for 9 hours a day again!!!!

Heyes

nope i still get things popping up in my mail saying messages / forwards etc are been sent to mine, so it must still be going strong :rolleyes:

GLaDOS

I still go on it......go me