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Will facebook do a bebo?

  • 04-11-2012 12:59pm
    #1
    Prick!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 936 ✭✭✭


    Facebook has a lot more users than bebo had obviously so it won't happen as easily.

    However, facebook keep upgrading parts of their site (video chat,messages,timelime,photos etc). Surely they will run out of things to upgrade and then then the experience gets boring and people go on facebook less.

    What do ye think? I don't know really, nothing lasts forever does it?


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  • #2
    Icaras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 927 ✭✭✭Icaras


    I think it will eventually go the same way unless it finds a way of making itself useful without so many annoyances. My opinion is the novelty is wearing off for people and while it is nice to get in contact with old friends or stay in contact with people you dont see very often but it is now mostly poplulate with people who check in in their kitchen for breakfast every f**king day.


  • #3
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    what's this Bebo of which you speak?


  • #4
    Prick!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 936 ✭✭✭Prick!


    Oh I forgot to add the annoyances of it.

    Businesses are now using it to make money, ads up along the side. These "offers" on the newsfeed. The way some posts are "sponsored" (i.e paid for) so they're on your newsfeed for weeks and months after someone liked them.

    The "trending" articles.

    It's so annoying, like the way bebo got infested with spam bots.


  • #5
    juan.kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    Prick! wrote: »
    Oh I forgot to add the annoyances of it.

    Businesses are now using it to make money, ads up along the side. These "offers" on the newsfeed. The way some posts are "sponsored" (i.e paid for) so they're on your newsfeed for weeks and months after someone liked them.

    The "trending" articles.

    It's so annoying, like the way bebo got infested with spam bots.

    If they don't 'monetise' it, it will die anyway. They aren't a charity so they need revenue to fund the site. It's not cheap to implement infrastructure that supports millions of concurrent users.


  • #6
    Father Damo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    The ads are a bit in your face, but Bebo mainly died because of the porn spammers constanting sending friend requet at the exact same time FB got popular in Ireland (early to mid 2009). The layout and user friendliness of Bebo was actually alot better than FB back then, it killed itself off by not stopping the spam.


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