Bebo, “Blog Early, Blog Often”, is a social networking site that was founded in January 2005 by Michael and Xochi Birch. It was bought by AOL in 2008 for 850 million dollars.
Communication – 5 Stars
Bebo has an instant messaging feature, a wall and an inbox to help you keep in touch with your friends.
Profile/ File Sharing – 4 Stars
When creating a profile, you go to the home page and enter your name, email address, password, gender, and birthday. You will then be asked basic information questions, followed by your profile page. There is a link that asks you to verify your email on your profile page as well. Not only does it lose points for making you check your email, it also loses points because the notification is marked as spam. So, I was waiting for twenty minutes for the letter to show up, and I finally noticed it was in my spam folder.
Bebo allows users to share photos, videos, music, games, and even what they’re doing on other social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook.
Applications – 5 Stars
This site has many different types of applications. Bebo has games, quizzes, stickers, even other interactive pages as applications for their members to use.
Customization – 4 Stars
Bebo allows users to customize their profile page with a list of skins (backgrounds) as well as module placement. However, while the pre-sets are cool, you cannot create your own design.
Notifications – 4 Stars
Bebo sends notifications through your email address inbox, but it only sends the important ones. Ideally, we would find a social networking site that delivers important notifications to its own inbox .
With 22/25 Stars, Bebo is tied with Myspace. Although I use Facebook, I will say that if my friends were on this site and I heard about it first, I would have chosen Bebo.
Communication – 5 Stars
Bebo has an instant messaging feature, a wall and an inbox to help you keep in touch with your friends.
Profile/ File Sharing – 4 Stars
When creating a profile, you go to the home page and enter your name, email address, password, gender, and birthday. You will then be asked basic information questions, followed by your profile page. There is a link that asks you to verify your email on your profile page as well. Not only does it lose points for making you check your email, it also loses points because the notification is marked as spam. So, I was waiting for twenty minutes for the letter to show up, and I finally noticed it was in my spam folder.
Bebo allows users to share photos, videos, music, games, and even what they’re doing on other social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook.
Applications – 5 Stars
This site has many different types of applications. Bebo has games, quizzes, stickers, even other interactive pages as applications for their members to use.
Customization – 4 Stars
Bebo allows users to customize their profile page with a list of skins (backgrounds) as well as module placement. However, while the pre-sets are cool, you cannot create your own design.
Notifications – 4 Stars
Bebo sends notifications through your email address inbox, but it only sends the important ones. Ideally, we would find a social networking site that delivers important notifications to its own inbox .
With 22/25 Stars, Bebo is tied with Myspace. Although I use Facebook, I will say that if my friends were on this site and I heard about it first, I would have chosen Bebo.
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