Question about Bebo

Rockee · 13-03-2006 03:08AM

NoreenMF wrote:

I'm 30 and I use Bebo - it's good for keeping in touch with my friends and family as I don't live in Ireland anymore.

And it's something to do on the net when I'm REALLY, REALLY bored...

Don't let silly people put you off something that you might enjoy!

Bless ya! I agree just cos a lot of younger folk have latched onto said websites, whats the harm in us oul wans having our own page?

WhiteWashMan · 13-03-2006 09:04AM

oh god, if people love bebo (and i still have no idea what it is), why dont yis feck off there and do whatever it is you do there?

seriously, all i see these days are bebo threads!

dundalk cailin · 13-03-2006 12:08PM

Id nearly feel old, at 20, being a bebo user if it werent for the half of my college being on it...i use the excuse of not being in ireland..blah, blah..what can i say,im a waster of a student

13-03-2006 12:14PM

Rockee wrote:

Im 24 and not in college....should I be on bebo??? Just seems to be full of 19 year ols who go to BarCode...is myspace any different in terms of the age group etc????

I thought the same my self as my little sister is constanly on it but recently a mate sent me a mail and now i keep in contact with 30 something ppl i lost contact with since shcool who are on it
its a good idea

yawnstretch · 13-03-2006 01:28PM

Yeah - to be honest I hated all the bebo emails I kept getting but I eventually decided well there seems to be enough people I know using it to warrant a look.

So I sent out bebo emails too (the shame). But hey - once you get that over with it's actually moderately interesting and is a good way to stay in touch with certain circles of friends that you might otherwise never communicate with again.

Im 24 and Im a Bebo user

Rockee · 13-03-2006 08:58PM

yawnstretch wrote:

Yeah - to be honest I hated all the bebo emails I kept getting but I eventually decided well there seems to be enough people I know using it to warrant a look.

So I sent out bebo emails too (the shame). But hey - once you get that over with it's actually moderately interesting and is a good way to stay in touch with certain circles of friends that you might otherwise never communicate with again.

Im 24 and Im a Bebo user

Cool...feck the naysayers so!:D

MrVestek · 14-03-2006 12:36AM

Ok yes I'll admit it I'm on bebo, I joined way back in like november when I got one of those mass invite emails. Normally I wouldn't go near such a site that depended on spam emails to get it's userbase up but I thought that I'd give it a go then forgot completely all about it. Only went on there a few weeks ago to do some investigation.

I just don't get it... it's like a poor man's myspace. MySpace is much better, more community orientated and is a hell of alot more customisable. Bebo on the other hand looks like it was coded by a monkey the site is buggy as feck.

One thing that does annoy me though... it's popularity seems to have sprung up out of nowhere across Dublin. The past two weeks I've heared nothing but conversations about Bebo in Work/College and in passing.

Seriously it's not that bloody good. Bah... hopefully it's a fad... and fads pass really quickly.

Rb · 14-03-2006 12:44AM

I'll second that, the quicker it dies the better.

projectmayhem · 14-03-2006 12:49AM

Achilles wrote:

I just don't get it... it's like a poor man's myspace. MySpace is much better, more community orientated and is a hell of alot more customisable. Bebo on the other hand looks like it was coded by a monkey the site is buggy as feck.

yes it's possibly the worst coded site in the world. however, it IS a fairly recent site, so i'd assume they'll get round to fixing it at some stage. plus, myspace's "open policy" to making your "space" look the way you want leads to horrendous use of css and javascript on people's pages. restricting that makes life easier.

Achilles wrote:

One thing that does annoy me though... it's popularity seems to have sprung up out of nowhere across Dublin. The past two weeks I've heared nothing but conversations about Bebo in Work/College and in passing.

i don't get that either. i joined because a mate wanted me to fill in some quiz. then a week or two later everyone in college was a member, so i started messing with my account and now everyone in my class, and old buddies i stumbled accross are friends on it. quite handy.

also, apparently bebo is the 4th most visited site in ireland atm

LegacyUser · 14-03-2006 12:50AM

aidan_walsh wrote:

You shouldn't be on either at your age.

why not?

Rockee · 20-03-2006 10:50PM

a week on and nobody has answered that question.....:rolleyes: ive come to the conclusion that bebo is great craic

NoreenMF · 20-03-2006 10:54PM

If you can't beat em, join em!

Arathorn · 20-03-2006 11:01PM

I'm 23 and im tempted to sign up but then again im a bit paranoid anyone can look me up. I've heard of prospective employers looking up people on bebo too to suss them out, wouldnt fancy them seeing some of my holiday pics!!!

Fighting Irish · 20-03-2006 11:17PM

Arathorn wrote:

I'm 23 and im tempted to sign up but then again im a bit paranoid anyone can look me up. I've heard of prospective employers looking up people on bebo too to suss them out, wouldnt fancy them seeing some of my holiday pics!!!

But you can't search bebo, they would have to get fairly lucky to find your page?

MrVestek · 20-03-2006 11:20PM

Fighting Irish wrote:

But you can't search bebo...

Erh, yes you can they've integrated Google search onto their pages now to find profiles...

Arathorn · 20-03-2006 11:32PM

If they have your cv they can search your school and collage for your name as well its not that hard to do

Fighting Irish · 20-03-2006 11:44PM

Arathorn wrote:

If they have your cv they can search your school and collage for your name as well its not that hard to do

They have to join your school/college, bebo is **** like that. they need a search feature where you into names ans search for them. Bebo is a ****ty version of myspace

Is1ldur · 20-03-2006 11:51PM

What the hell is 'grooming', btw? Or am I just wayyyy too old?

Rockee · 20-03-2006 11:51PM

Arathorn wrote:

I'm 23 and im tempted to sign up but then again im a bit paranoid anyone can look me up. I've heard of prospective employers looking up people on bebo too to suss them out, wouldnt fancy them seeing some of my holiday pics!!!

Ive heard of that too....there is a way on bebo to allow your photos only to be shown to people you choose.

Arathorn · 21-03-2006 12:07AM

It wouldnt be very professional for them to do it, id say smaller organisations might do it, it can give an insight in to what a person is like some of the profiles can get pretty intimate. Oh and I would also like to know what grooming is, it sounds a bit pervy!

MrVestek · 21-03-2006 12:25AM

Grooming is the process of enticing a minor to sleep with you.

Chucky the tree · 21-03-2006 12:28AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_grooming

Sam Vimes · 21-03-2006 12:38AM

Achilles wrote:

Erh, yes you can they've integrated Google search onto their pages now to find profiles...

that doesn't actually work. i just logged in as myself and then search for my own username and it came up with nothing. i've been a member for over a month and google indexes every 28 days so that excuse on the search page isn't right

Faith · 21-03-2006 12:55AM

YEah, it didn't work for me either when I tried it just there. I've been a member for about 2 years.

Atrocity · 21-03-2006 01:24AM

Dude, What The F**k Is The Internet?

Rockee · 21-03-2006 01:28AM

Atrocity wrote:

Dude, What The F**k Is The Internet?

a jay and silent bob quote always works somewhere!:D

L5 · 21-03-2006 10:26AM

Faith wrote:

YEah, it didn't work for me either when I tried it just there. I've been a member for about 2 years.

Riiiiiight

Its only out 10 months

raheny red · 21-03-2006 11:21AM

One reason to join BEBO is for the dirty English women

Nala · 21-03-2006 12:32PM

Arathorn wrote:

I'm 23 and im tempted to sign up but then again im a bit paranoid anyone can look me up. I've heard of prospective employers looking up people on bebo too to suss them out, wouldnt fancy them seeing some of my holiday pics!!!

You can set your profile so that only people you are linked to can see it. Go into "edit my homepage".

Fighting Irish · 21-03-2006 05:20PM

L5 wrote:

Riiiiiight

Its only out 10 months

So if i have a friend called "John Doe" and i know he's defo on bebo, and i search for him will i find him?

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