Bebo...death tributes???

bluesky00

So its a bit morbid but its something thats struck a chord with me....Lately ive noticed more and more bebo pages dedicated to people who have passed away- with friends/people/randoms obviosuly leaving tributes.

What do people think of this...I know id want mine shut down...It freaks me out when someone else logs into their page and updates with funeral arrangemengts etc

Does anyone think its kinda reaching beyond the grave...or what are peoples views?

AlmightyCushion

I'm immortal so I don't give a shít.

Mossy Monk

How will people know of the funeral arrangements without the medium of Bebo.

monkeyfudge

No one ever died before Bebo came along. FACT!

Santa Claus

monkeyfudge wrote: »

No one ever died before Bebo came along. FACT!

I think the real worrying fact here is that people have started dying SINCE bebo came along !

MayMay

Santa Claus wrote: »

I think the real worrying fact here is that people have started dying SINCE bebo came along !

:eek:Jesus...

Xavi6

Shut down my bebo? But how would I spy on all those people I don't really like??? (except the bastards who set their profile to private :mad: )

razorblunt

The worst part is people that leave comments talking to them, like im sure theyre checking their Bebo account in the skym maybe in the next life theyll come back as one of those new application you can stick on your page.

Doctor DooM

monkeyfudge wrote: »

No one ever died before Bebo came along. FACT!

They did, they just didnt have 1787 friends they'd never met to leave eulogies.

GhostInTheRuins

razorblunt wrote: »

The worst part is people that leave comments talking to them, like im sure theyre checking their Bebo account in the skym maybe in the next life theyll come back as one of those new application you can stick on your page.

If there's bebo in heaven I'd rather go to hell

Rhyme

Santa Claus wrote: »

I think the real worrying fact here is that people have started dying SINCE bebo came along !

Scientologists.

Xavi6

razorblunt wrote: »

The worst part is people that leave comments talking to them, like im sure theyre checking their Bebo account in the skym maybe in the next life theyll come back as one of those new application you can stick on your page.

Surely they have broadband up there? If not then I'm not going.

Crazy Christ

What if you died and then some muppet you never got on with started being your best friend, talking to you through your page. Most of it is guff anyway, a load of people who don't even care that much leaving comments like as if they are devastated; in reality a lot of them are probably trying to attract more views for their profile

andrew

what im concerned about is the fact that death is trying to groom young kids on bebo, kids who are giving out personal details and arranging meetings and 'get togethers' :O

JIZZLORD

a lad i've known for years died on tuesday, and already his bebo is full of tributes, but i'd find it creepy if a big dedicated tribute page was created.
i suppose different people need different ways to cope

Assez Bien

i find them increadibly wierd, Did anyone see sky news about the 7 suicides in south wales that they believe could be possibly linked to these bebo tribute pages.....:(

orestes

Yes, those seven people from Wales who had Bebo accounts but didn't actually know each other and weren't friends either on Bebo or in real life.

BEBO MAKES YOU COMMIT MASS SUICIDE! :rolleyes:

I hate Bebo, but this is just sensationalism and media madness.

I don't find posting tributes on someones Bebo any weirder than saying I'll miss you at a grave. It's peoples way of saying goodbye to a friend. It's when they turn into massive impersonal "comment here because a person you never met or cared about or ever heard about until they died is dead" kinda things that I get confused.



Btw does anyone have a link to Katy French's Bebo?

Xavi6

Assez Bien wrote: »

i find them increadibly wierd, Did anyone see sky news about the 7 suicides in south wales that they believe could be possibly linked to these bebo tribute pages.....:(

Yeah the conspiracy theories have started -

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=370985

Detectives believed many of the victims had their own web pages on the social networking site Bebo and could have been driven to kill themselves as a way of gaining prestige among their friends.

After their deaths, friends set up "memorial" websites for each of them so people could leave messages, photographs and video tributes.

"They may think it's cool to have a memorial website," one officer told The Times newspaper.

Ridiculous stuff

Assez Bien

Something like this happened in our local area not with bebo but with the eulogies they were receiving like i'm not saying they should be damned or anything but it was all a liitle strange. Kinda sad really that they think they have to die to be truly appreciated.

Mossy Monk

Assez Bien wrote: »

Kinda sad really that they think they have to die to be truly appreciated.

It worked for John Lennon and Kurt Cobain.

seamus

In July 2007, Bebo had 31 million registered users 1

If we take the standard death rate for people under 25 to be 3 deaths per year per 1000 people, then 90,000 bebo users will die this year. That's 246 per day.

Kimono-Girl

i hate bebo and i refuse to have a bebo account! i am probally the only one in ireland though.

Rb

candlelover wrote: »

i hate bebo and i refuse to have a bebo account! i am probally the only one in ireland though.

Nope, I hate the thing, have never had and never will have any account on it.

Mossy Monk

candlelover wrote: »

i hate bebo and i refuse to have a bebo account! i am probally the only one in ireland though.

How very presumptious of you.

CCCP^

I dunno, I find it hard to express to people my sympathy with them when someone they know or love has died. You feel like the bottom of the bucket when it does, and no amount of "jesus I heard about your Ma" is going to make it better. I guess, this being the digital age, people find it easier to type a few lines on a website or just to visit the page every now and then than maybe going around to the families house or visiting the grave.

Candlelover wrote:

i hate bebo and i refuse to have a bebo account! i am probally the only one in ireland though.

I've got one ready for you when you die.

Kimono-Girl

CCCP^ wrote: »

I've got one ready for you when you die.

and if you do i will haunt your ass!

and i didn't mean to be presumptious alot of people are on it though.

aliqueenb

yeah i think its a bit freaky tbh i don't like them but thats just my opinion, i seen one really terrible comment on katie french's one. it was so mean.

andrew

aliqueenb wrote: »

yeah i think its a bit freaky tbh i don't like them but thats just my opinion, i seen one really terrible comment on katie french's one. it was so mean.

must....resist...temptation...to post....katy french....joke.

machiavellianme

Mossy Monk wrote: »

It worked for John Lennon and Kurt Cobain.

Really, I thought the White Album and In Utero did the job. Commercial suicide

Lauragoesmad

andrew wrote: »

must....resist...temptation...to post....katy french....joke.

You should never resist temptation! Ever!

andrew

Whats black, white and hungry?

Katy French's cat.

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Whats the difference between Katy French and Richard Hammond?

Richard Hammond Survived top gear.

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What do katy french and a phone line have in common?

They both die when they get a bad line

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Ah yes...not resisting temptation feels goood

Peyton Manning

andrew wrote: »

Whats black, white and hungry?

Katy French's cat.

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Whats the difference between Katy French and Richard Hammond?

Richard Hammond Survived top gear.

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What do katy french and a phone line have in common?

They both die when they get a bad line

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Ah yes...not resisting temptation feels goood

Im all for insensitive jokes - they can be fantastic, with Maddy McCann ones being my favourite. But the ones you mentioned just arent funny. Not 'OMG DAZ NOT FUNNY111!1 SHE DIED, HAV REPESCT FFS11!1' not funny.....just 'not humourous' not funny. Poor effort.

D-

WECpoker

I would want my Bebo main Photo replaced with the Picture of my open coffin.....and the video of the entire Funeral embedded in the page

I would also want some nice new web page design including Doves and other wonderful things

kev_s88

Archimedes wrote: »

Im all for insensitive jokes - they can be fantastic, with Maddy McCann ones being my favourite. But the ones you mentioned just arent funny. Not 'OMG DAZ NOT FUNNY111!1 SHE DIED, HAV REPESCT FFS11!1' not funny.....just 'not humourous' not funny. Poor effort.

D-

i thought they were hilarious :D

antodeco

andrew wrote: »

Whats black, white and hungry?

Katy French's cat.

ROFL!! Handnt heard that one! Yoink! :pac::pac:

Futurism

rb_ie wrote: »

Nope, I hate the thing, have never had and never will have any account on it.

If you've never had an account then you couldn't really 'hate' it could you?

aliqueenb

Archimedes wrote: »

Im all for insensitive jokes - they can be fantastic, with Maddy McCann ones being my favourite. But the ones you mentioned just arent funny. Not 'OMG DAZ NOT FUNNY111!1 SHE DIED, HAV REPESCT FFS11!1' not funny.....just 'not humourous' not funny. Poor effort.

D-

+1

well the thing on her page wasn't even a joke it was just uggh.

tolosenc

I'm concerned that someone would, within a few hours, have cracked my password...

aliqueenb

obl wrote: »

I'm concerned that someone would, within a few hours, have cracked my password...

what you mean?

passive

These things really really creep me out...