What Do You Think About Social Networking Sites?

eVeNtInE · 25-01-2009 11:53pm #1

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aine-maire · 26-01-2009 12:12am

Well I've actually only been on bebo for about 4 months and I have to admit that while at first it was all new and shiny and amazing, now I'm kind of less than enamoured with it and it's seldom that I'm on it more than once a week.
Lots of my friends feel the same way and while we still use it to catch up, etc. I've got the impression that it's nowhere near as popular as it was...
I guess people are just gradually realising that talking to people in real life is better!

Also, I think that msn's on the up...so much more convenient...replies are instant and there's more privacy.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 26-01-2009 12:15am

I find them very handy for keeping in tough with people from home. And for stalking people! I probably spend as much time on bebo as here. I have a facebook as well but I rarely use it

KnifeWRENCH · 26-01-2009 12:15am

I used love Bebo but I grew a bit tired of it after a while. Nobody ever leaves me comments - it's kind of sad.

Apart from the spammers of course - I've plenty of messages from Haylie. Lizbeth, Tena and various other fake people. :rolleyes:

The best thing about Bebo is that it's so simple to use. Facebook on the other hand I find very very clunky and hard to navigate. My favourite thing about Facebook is the applications - I love playing the word games like PathWords, Word Twist, Text Twirl etc.

I have a MySpace that I go to about once a year. I only signed up to add bands and singers I like as friends.

deleriumtremens · 26-01-2009 12:19am

I used to use bebo a good bit because I felt that I would be "missing out" otherwise. Used to be slightly addicted to it actually! That was from, say, mid 2006 to late 2007, since then I havnt used it that much although I check my page anytime I get an email saying I got a comment. Was going to join myspace but I decided not to as I'd probably end up getting addicted to it!

Overall, I dont think they are a bad thing, so long as you dont get too sucked into them!

aine-maire · 26-01-2009 12:26am

Lennon Big Cage wrote: »

And for stalking people!

What?!

Ha...yeah I think everyone checks up who their friends have been commenting :P

Piste · 26-01-2009 1:04am

I'm a bit over bebo now, rarely use it, check it every few days. In its glory days I used it a lot though and liked it a lot.

seanybiker · 26-01-2009 1:06am

I use bebo and facebook. Only got into facebook lately cos I found me cousins in Canada are on it, so its handy to be able to chat to them.
Bebo is grand. I dont know why people hate it, if ya dont like it just dont go onto it. Dont know how people love it either but sure, each to their own.

Crumble Froo · 26-01-2009 1:09am

rarely really got into it at all. had my own profile iwth no pictures of me, or information about me, just a vid that i liked, and a pretty background. then i joined a band, and put some band details up there, and now i only use it to keep in touch iwth my mates back in ireland who i dont keep up with via boards/msn.

for that purpose, it's quite handy actually, and i can give out news on it as to what im up to (eg, long rambly drunken speech about how i love you guys so much, and amnt great at keeping in touch,but i really do miss ye and think about ye heaps), or making sure everyone knew that i was moving from nz to oz, just little things like that.

Insect Overlord · 26-01-2009 1:51am

I'm using Bebo pretty regularly at the moment for three reasons:
1) I keep all my poems on my "author's page"
2) I keep all my photographs on a new "Group" page
3) The manager of my soccer team sends us news about fixtures/ match reports via Bebo

I sometimes reply to comments, but rarely make the effort.

Using Facebook a little bit too, but never felt any real attachment to it. I don't think I've uploaded a profile picture yet, even after 18 months on the site.

The idea behind social networking sites is admirable, but Bebo has turned into a complete shambles since the applications and Bebo mobile came on board. Spammers are the devil.

26-01-2009 7:22pm

Got tired of the old bebo.So deleted it.Too much stalking being done on me.Bye bye 20'000 odd views.I was a bebo whore.I am on facebook now and I like it.

Diabhal Beag · 26-01-2009 7:34pm

Its getting a bit old now

Stev_o · 26-01-2009 8:34pm

I have 800 friends with 4640 love and over 1 million views. Im better then you all.

/Thread

Thats how stupid they are.

JC 2K3 · 26-01-2009 11:19pm

Never understood the hate for them.

They're good for a few things like sharing pictures and letting people know about events etc.

Not everyone would be bothered with them, but I don't see any reason to hate, or even dislike.

Insect Overlord · 26-01-2009 11:32pm

One advantage of Bebo:
they don't allow double-posts! :P

SarcasticFairy · 26-01-2009 11:35pm

I have used Bebo, Facebook and myspace at one point or another, but I'm a bit meh about them all now. Never liked myspace, and facebook is too hard to use - it's just so awkward.

Still check my Bebo every couple of days or so, but I can't really be arsed with it anymore... It tries too hard to be facebook - much preferred the odd bebo, before all the gadgets and shiney things came along... I was also like 14 and everybody used it loads, so it was more useful then, I suppose.

eVeNtInE · 26-01-2009 11:37pm

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gary the great · 27-01-2009 1:01am

Ah i like bebo...and would check it most days. its good for keeping in contact and seeign what people are getting up to.

Not so much into Facebook though, everything takes to much effort...

And whats wrong with flashboxs? Once autoplay is off you wouldnt even notice they were there...

eVeNtInE · 27-01-2009 1:05am

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Shooters · 27-01-2009 1:08am

i have an account on both bebo and facebook but have found bebo to be more for the younger generation! love facebook. its a great way to catch up with people! have a lot of friends on it that i have seen for years! love the applications too....lots of games on it like tetris and packman and that!

we actually organised a reunion through facebook too....a get together for a lot of very old friends who haven't seen each other for 10 years or so! on saturday night! don't think it would have happened without it.

cautioner · 27-01-2009 1:14am

Welcome to XOXOXxoxox---!!!CIARA!!!---xoxoxXOXOX's page.
What Drink Are You?
What Instrument are You?
What Sexual Position are You?
Are you Stupid, Skanky, or a Slut?
Which Mega-Hot Celeb are You?

(just taking the name Ciara at random. Girls have ruined bebo, and that's a fact.)

(no offence)

Shooters · 27-01-2009 1:25am

have to agree...but the young lads pages can be just as bad!!

but it really has turned into a site for teenagers....well thats what i think anyway! facebook just seems to be more grown up or something!

cautioner · 27-01-2009 1:40am

It was so much better before they fuelled the social competition, introducing loves and making public how many friends everyone has, and before they just made it annoying and painful to look at with all the apps.

Still use it regularly though. Yay for hypocrisy.

phasers · 27-01-2009 6:06pm

I don't like Myspace, bebo or facebook.

Webtexts + Photobucket FTW

Davidius · 27-01-2009 8:34pm

To me a social networking site is a place where I can write down a bunch of meaningless bollox. Some people seem to take it seriously. Good luck to them I suppose.

I was never the kind of person who appreciates the social aspect of things.

What's this? This attractive 22 year old woman is moving into my unspecified location!? She wants to be my friend? Send her an e-mail? [email]omghotnak3dpr0nndbigtitz1212x @yahoo/hotmail/spam.com[/email]!? Of course, maybe I'll say hello in her comments section! I have no reason to be suspicious at all!

EmoMatt15 · 27-01-2009 10:48pm

I only gots bebo and I use it to talk to people who dont have MSN,
But all the new stuff is rubbish, widgets and the like, so when im on the pc i use the mobile version of bebo, very minimalistic!

Insect Overlord · 28-01-2009 12:03am

EmoMatt15 wrote: »

But all the new stuff is rubbish, widgets and the like, so when im on the pc i use the mobile version of bebo, very minimalistic!

That's clever, I should try that in future.

Latchy · 28-01-2009 12:12am

Sorry, I am way past the clearasil phrase in life and one of the older people on facebook .I find the whole messaging format on there very messy , like people leaving very mundane comments about ......nothing in particular all over your page .And I have dozens of people ,strangers wanting to be my friend which is nice I suppose but ,ah to time consuming

Just as well I know some real people from my life on there

Insect Overlord · 28-01-2009 12:14am

That is one of the really strange things about FaceBook, people from all over the world are liable to request your friendship at random.

Latchy · 28-01-2009 12:20am

An File wrote: »

That is one of the really strange things about FaceBook, people from all over the world are liable to request your friendship at random.

I suppose there is the option of privacy were you only make friends with who wish but you find that out after 50 people ask you to be your friends .:)

People you might know is intresting because it puts real people you know in direct contact with you ,should you wish

Shacklebolt · 28-01-2009 7:47pm

aine-maire wrote: »

What?!

Ha...yeah I think everyone checks up who their friends have been commenting :P

Everybody bebo-stalks ,some just wont admit it.

EmoMatt15 · 28-01-2009 8:42pm

i read peoples threads on bebo!!
Im a bad, nosey man!

cHaTbOx · 28-01-2009 9:42pm

Shacklebolt wrote: »

Everybody bebo-stalks ,some just wont admit it.

I don't lol barely reply to comments:o
Got all of the main ones:)

MIN2511 · 28-01-2009 9:49pm

I dunno, i am on bebo and facebook i never use bebo much. I actually want to create a social networking/cms for students... So this is an interesting read-it would be based on php and sql, someone mentioned i should use joomla... Ideas would be much appreciated

cHaTbOx · 28-01-2009 9:58pm

MIN2511 wrote: »

I dunno, i am on bebo and facebook i never use bebo much. I actually want to create a social networking/cms for students... So this is an interesting read-it would be based on php and sql, someone mentioned i should use joomla... Ideas would be much appreciated

Then it'd be quite cool if you could give grinds in a subject you are good at for grinds in something other people are good at , like a credit system if you wish . It would avoid big costs of getting them and with participation everyone could learn a little.

Secondly it think it could be good to have a place to organise meet ups for like minded people, like people who want to start bands in uni etc.

May go into more detail but if you could do that it has a lot of potential.

And if you do make me admin:P

MIN2511 · 29-01-2009 1:19am

random chatbox wrote: »

Then it'd be quite cool if you could give grinds in a subject you are good at for grinds in something other people are good at , like a credit system if you wish . It would avoid big costs of getting them and with participation everyone could learn a little.

Secondly it think it could be good to have a place to organise meet ups for like minded people, like people who want to start bands in uni etc.

May go into more detail but if you could do that it has a lot of potential.

And if you do make me admin:P

hahahahha.... Cheers for that...
To be honest it would be a social network site(like facebook) but would be focused on students in Ireland...
Still thinking, downloading and installing joomla as we speak..
This is my new baby, all suggestions would be appreciated...

pepsicokeacola · 29-01-2009 3:31am

id join that

bythewoods · 29-01-2009 8:50pm

cautioner wrote: »

Welcome to XOXOXxoxox---!!!CIARA!!!---xoxoxXOXOX's page.
What Drink Are You?
What Instrument are You?
What Sexual Position are You?
Are you Stupid, Skanky, or a Slut?
Which Mega-Hot Celeb are You?

(just taking the name Ciara at random. Girls have ruined bebo, and that's a fact.)

(no offence)

I'm a girl and I'll admit that we, as a collective gender group, have ruined bebo. Completely and utterly.
Those stupid quizzes irritate me so very much!

Bebo's a bit crap tbh. I set up my page in 2005 (Eugh, how SAD is that?) but closed it down completely a few months ago. I got so sick of it all... the popularity battle, the fact that someone else was reading every conversation you were having, everything.

However, I caved in under pressure and set up a new one. A very minimilistic one.. none of this "What kind of guy is meant for you?", "What kind of drunk are you?", "Are You a Good Kisser?" ****e.
Because these are just the kind of things the internet shouldn't be able to tell me!

As for facebook, I set up a page to keep in touch with my friend who went to Uni in England- she doesn't use msn/ bebo and it's far too expensive to text her. Meh. I don't like it much wither tbh.

fonpokno · 30-01-2009 11:11pm

Bebo used to be great back in the day, used it all the time up til I discovered boards basically. Then I discovered the big wide world of intelligent people on the internet.

I've only joined facebook cos my sister is in Germany this year and keeps us updated with it. Use it for invites to friends concerts and parties but most of my actual friends on facebook are boardsies.

Bebo is chock full of retards who don't know the difference between upper and lower case.

Example:

bebo crap wrote:

♥♥DoNt EvEr LeAvE tHe OnE U lOvE♥♥ ♥♥FoR ThE OnE U LiKe♥♥ ♥♥CoZ ThE OnE U LiKe♥♥ ♥♥WiLl LeAvE U♥♥ ♥♥FoR tHe oNe ThEy lOvE♥♥ ♥♥ReMeMbEr 2 d WoRlD uR jUs 1 pErSoN♥♥ ♥♥bUt 2 1 pErSoN uR d World!!♥♥ ♥♥ CIARA LUVS LU ΘH THΛTS MΣ IN THΛT BΘX
THΣЧ DΘNT MAKΣ ΣM LIKΣ
　　　THiS ΛNЧMΘRΣ;]"

Hurts my eyes so much. It upsets me when some 14 yr old's profile picture is of them in their fanciest Penney's push up corset and suspenders. Horrid.

Does boards count as social networking for this? If boards counts as social networking then it's the best one EVER. I heart boards so much.

Boards wins.

eVeNtInE · 30-01-2009 11:25pm

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MIN2511 · 30-01-2009 11:28pm

I always thought bebo was SPAM central! I get loads of porn spams so never bothered with it, most of my friends on bebo are not on facebook-plus hopefully i get my own social network finished soon

boards is so cool-am addicted! Made so many friends here

cautioner · 30-01-2009 11:47pm

Nah, bebo is actually great for meeting women, I pretty much constantly get private messages from really hot girls who think I are a fun guy, and interesting too.

MIN2511 · 31-01-2009 12:01am

Serious?

cautioner · 31-01-2009 12:05am

Yeah man, check out my latest spontaneous mutual attraction:
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=8325202247

... I think the real tragedy is that 21 people have accepted her as a friend.

fonpokno · 31-01-2009 12:41am

eVeNtInE wrote: »

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Exactly. Hurts doesn't it?

eVeNtInE · 31-01-2009 12:44am

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fonpokno · 31-01-2009 1:30am

Ah yes but that's just your username! Look at CuLT's username! At least you don't type like that regularly. You come across as a wonderfully intelligent person rather than one of these "hehe iM sOo SxC" idiots.

You're lovely!

eVeNtInE · 31-01-2009 1:49am

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myesac · 01-02-2009 6:07pm

i started using a mobile "social" network, group texting with replies for all. not bad, had to pay. maybe they can change the model. private to the group, my mates and i are using it quiet a bit.

interface a bit naff, need to improve registration etc. good idea though...

Jesus Juice · 08-02-2009 11:04pm

Ah but the thing about Facebook is..the people who use it are like this is great theres not a childish teenager in sight...but there acting the same if not as bad as teenagers example: ''Omg,did he just ignore me on his chat list!?Im so blocking him now''...

Neverwhere · 08-02-2009 11:14pm

personally? I hate the goddamn things. What a waste of time! There are two kinds of users.....

1. The kind that has it for the sake of having it, and really shouldnt seeing as they never bother to log on.

2. The kind that cant go a day....or a few hours without checking their comments.

Does anyone remember email?!?!

Seriously....I have a Facebook, Myspace AND bebo.

I got the Myspace and facebook purely so I could view some friends photos. I never used the myspace. I got the bebo while travelling one summer because people are too lazy to keep in touch through a quick email. Instead they spend 4 hours straight commenting on a social networking site??
I got the facebook for photos....and kept it because everyone ditched bebo and move to facebook, so I need it when I'm away from home.

Seriously...I'll give a cookied to the next person I meet that actually uses email on a regular basis.

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