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Bebo is a social networking website created to enable friends to stay in contact. It has developed into an online community where friends can post pictures, write blogs and send messages to one another, and is similar in format to MySpace. The site has been increasing in popularity since the end of 2005, and currently has an Alexa Internet traffic ranking of 612 .

Users create an account (or respond to an invitation), then invite their friends to do the same, so that they can see their account. In the event that a friend changes their postal addresses, email addresses, phone numbers or other details, he or she will be notified of the fact, and will therefore always have up to date contact information. Bebo also allows users to post comments in various sections of a users account such as pictures, blogs, white board and the users account home page.

Recently (February 32006) Bebo has integrated (on windows only) with Skype, a popular VOIP service. This enables users to contact each other using Skype directly from their profiles, and marks a big move forward in online communication integration.

Criticisms

Bebo has been accused of taking up so much of students' time that campus computers in various colleges are blocked up by students accessing it, at the expense of students wishing to do genuine coursework.

This is seen mostly in Irish Colleges like Maynooth or Dublin. Over 500,000 teenagers in the Republic of Ireland have Bebo accounts, this is around one eighth of the total population.

External links

• Bebo website
• Skype

References

• UCC Express, March 15, 2006

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