BEBO....wtf does it stand for??

montypython

is it just some sort of government organisation 2 keep tabs on us all?? what do u think????

Karoma

Boring Eejits Blabbering On.

democrates

montypython wrote:

is it just some sort of government organisation 2 keep tabs on us all?? what do u think????

Where did you get that information? Who have you been talking to? What is your PPS number?

arbeitsscheuer

Be Exceptionally Boring Oafs

Karoma

Because Everyone's Boring Online.

arbeitsscheuer

Karoma wrote:

Because Everyone's Boring Online.

sh*t that's much better... And more plausible.

montypython

hot or not.com eh??

Terry

new message from xxxxxxx@gmail.com subject: join me at bebo.com.
spam spam spam spam spam.

democrates

My my my karoma.
If it's boring you, spice it up!
Post a picture of your nether for us all to laugh at or something.
Maybe that's a bad idea.

arbeitsscheuer

democrates wrote:

My my my karoma.
If it's boring you, spice it up!
Post a picture of your nether for us all to laugh at or something.
Maybe that's a bad idea.

It's a BEBO idea!

(Brilliantly Endemic Brain-Ossifier)

Karoma

democrates wrote:

My my my karoma.
If it's boring you, spice it up!
Post a picture of your nether for us all to laugh at or something.
Maybe that's a bad idea.

CYPM

democrates

Karoma wrote:

CYPM

Eh, no, cos it'll be I'll show you mine if you show me yours, and I don't want to be the butt of a cheeky prank, even if it's great crack. And sure you could post a random arse from a porn site, how do I know it's really yours?

Hobbes

julep wrote:

new message from xxxxxxx@gmail.com subject: join me at bebo.com.
spam spam spam spam spam.

yea I Got spammed too. Checking to see if my friend even has an account there (doubt he does).

There was a similar site like this. Offered to store your friends from outlook on thier system and then proceeded to spam all your friends with a fake email suggesting that you set up with the same thing.

Red Alert

that was a thing called sms.ac.uk if I remember correctly.

RotalicaV

Because Eating Boasts Obesity

Ruaidhri

Bringing Every Body Out (of the closet,oh!)

Ok lame,and i cheated...

RoundyMooney

Boring (non)Entities Beseeching Others (to join)

s'OK. I cheated also...

Rhyme

Beats Eating Brains n Orifices

Terry

bloody exceedingly bothersome organisation.

democrates

Bebo is bobo the clowns evil twin.

Capt'n Midnight

you sign up with www.bebo.com and put pictures up there. they have to register to see them. bebo now have lots of user profiles that could be sold on to spammers and credit card application companies. and your mates get cheesed off cos everyone hates registering on line when imageshack doesn't require it.

it's just another way of annoying people, to do it properly choose someone elses name and a really crap picture, perhaps one of the Hoff semi-naked.

/RANT

Adam

Its actually very similar to myspace.com, and I have never been spammed by them, when you get an email its because someone you know has signed up and allowed bebo to take the addresses from your hotmail/yahoo etc. account and send invitations to join you on bebo. Its just another 'interact with people online' thing, no harm to it, its very well run.

Terry

fade_to_grey wrote:

Its actually very similar to myspace.com, and I have never been spammed by them, when you get an email its because someone you know has signed up and allowed bebo to take the addresses from your hotmail/yahoo etc. account and send invitations to join you on bebo. Its just another 'interact with people online' thing, no harm to it, its very well run.

yes, it takes your name and spams you with unwanted invitations.

Adam

julep wrote:

yes, it takes your name and spams you with unwanted invitations.

Based on the consent of the person who is signing up. So if your friend signs up and tells bebo "yeah sure, send an email to everyone in my address book!" then thats what bebo will do. Look into it before spouting off crap.

Terry

the amount of invitations that come into my inbox are enough for me not to have anything to do with it.

Adam

Then i suggest you have a word with your friends/anybody in your msn contacts.

projectmayhem

bebo, myspace, livejournal and the rest of them are wastes of time/bandwidth

Adam

projectmayhem wrote:

bebo, myspace, livejournal and the rest of them are wastes of time/bandwidth

Thank you for your opinion. Please call again soon.

Diarmsquid

fade_to_grey wrote:

So if your friend signs up and tells bebo "yeah sure, send an email to everyone in my address book!" then thats what bebo will do.

I said "No, don't send it to everyone I know", but it still did.
Apart from the spamming, I think Bebo is good.

Adam

Diarmsquid wrote:

I said "No, don't send it to everyone I know", but it still did.
Apart from the spamming, I think Bebo is good.

Unusual...I told it not to and it didn't...

Diarmsquid

fade_to_grey wrote:

Unusual...I told it not to and it didn't...

You sure? I wouldn't have realised untill one guy on my contact list, who hates all that stuff, emailed me back giving out.

Terry

i get them with the names of people who i know haven't even signed up for it. one person on my list did sign up and i was spammed by everyone on his list, even though they never clicked on the link.

Sangre

bebo never sends out emails unless you tell it to

democrates

BEBO : Buddies Email Bombarded Outright

tman

Beefy Entertainers Being Erogenous

think i need to go back to bed...:p

projectmayhem

fade_to_grey wrote:

Thank you for your opinion. Please call again soon.

lol
you're welcomed.

Doodee

its alot like okcupid.com

only not as good...

Flashling

Bebo is the spanish for I drink.

Terry

bleedin' eejits bothering others.

Basq

Prefer Bebo to any of the others! (MySpace etc.)

The pages are normally quite brief and with simple enough formatting, unlike MySpace especially when people appy their own little skins which make the page / writing unreadable.

So basically.. i think i prefer Bebo because of it's simplicity!

YeatsCounty

basquille wrote:

Prefer Bebo to any of the others! (MySpace etc.)

The pages are normally quite brief and with simple enough formatting, unlike MySpace especially when people appy their own little skins which make the page / writing unreadable.

So basically.. i think i prefer Bebo because of it's simplicity!

Agreed about MySpace, some of those pages are unreadable.

Some of the coding on Bebo is quite poor though. I've lost count of how many times I've tried to look at my own mailbox only to be told I can't because I'm another user.

snappieT

Diarmsquid wrote:

You sure? I wouldn't have realised untill one guy on my contact list, who hates all that stuff, emailed me back giving out.

That'd be me.

Solution:
http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/8231/picture38jv.png

hullaballoo

You can change the skins on bebo now, some of them are really gack.

dundalk cailin

I like bebo myself,but i did have 76 inbox messages between Thu morn and last night,some of them i got 4 or 5 times from different contacts!

Basq

hullaballoo wrote:

You can change the skins on bebo now, some of them are really gack.

Pretty awful looking alright!

And 80% of them make the text on your page unreadable. Could be fixed with a simple addition to change the colour of your text along with the skin but plain Red & White Bebo background will have to do for now.

Sully

basquille wrote:

Prefer Bebo to any of the others! (MySpace etc.)

The pages are normally quite brief and with simple enough formatting, unlike MySpace especially when people appy their own little skins which make the page / writing unreadable.

So basically.. i think i prefer Bebo because of it's simplicity!

MySpace is a mess.

Bebo is much cleaner and easier on the eyes

Sully

basquille wrote:

Pretty awful looking alright!

And 80% of them make the text on your page unreadable. Could be fixed with a simple addition to change the colour of your text along with the skin but plain Red & White Bebo background will have to do for now.

Agreed, some skins look pretty pathetic.

I keep in touch with Bebo and offer suggestions etc, and id love to see a way of building your own skin - limited way, last thing we need is myspace V2!

Diarmsquid

Bebo have extended their Schools/Colleges service to Ireland. It's great.
I like to think it's because of my email to them asking them to do it, some time ago.

One thing I'll say about Bebo is that it takes AGES to upload photos. It's a real downer.

Sully

Never found it taking ages to upload photos for me?

Bebo didnt add WIT to the list of colleges :P Waiting for them to add it

Adam

Sangre wrote:

bebo never sends out emails unless you tell it to

Thank you Sangre!

@the people who say they were spammed

There could be a spamming chain going on passing itself off as Bebo related, collecting email addresses etc. the usual sh1te ya know?

snappieT

fade_to_grey wrote:

Thank you Sangre!

@the people who say they were spammed

There could be a spamming chain going on passing itself off as Bebo related, collecting email addresses etc. the usual sh1te ya know?

Answer me these questions three:

How would it get a list of current members?
Why would it link back to a bebo website?
Why would the email source show that it came from bebo?