Bebo Me! – Are You Already in Bebo?

So What is Bebo?

Bebo is a popular social networking website which connects you to everyone and everything you care about. It prides itself with being your life online – a social experience that helps you discover what's going on with the world and helps the world discover what's going on with you. Bebo successfully blends together community, self-expression and entertainment, enabling you to consume, create, discover, curate and share digital content in entirely new ways.

Bebo was Founded in January 2005 by Michael Birch and his wife, Xochi, in San Francisco, California, Bebo is actually an acronym for Blog Early, Blog Often. It was acquired by AOL in 2008 for a whopping US$ 850 million. In April 2010, AOL announced it was planning to sell or shut down Bebo. By June of 2010, the deal was sealed and the company was sold to Criterion Capital Partners.

How does Bebo work?

Users receive a personal profile page where they can post blogs, polls, photographs, music and videos for other users enjoy. And to insert the social network aspect, users may add others as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

Bebo’s Latest Features

Social Inbox

Bebo's Social Inbox is the perfect way for you to organize all your messages in one easy-to-use inbox. The Social Inbox now features updates from Gmail, Yahoo! and AOL, and media recommendations that deliver you the most relevant online entertainment in one place.

Lifestream Platform

The Lifestream platform delivers real-time, chronological updates from all of your friends from various platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and others. Striking but easy-to-use, the timeline format updates instantly each time you add a post, from photos and videos to stories and events. What’s more, with Bebo accessible even through your mobile phone, you can stay connected even when on the move!

Bebo Music

Launched originally as Bebo Bands in 2006, Bebo Music allows bands or solo artists to create a profile to showcase their music. The band profiles include a band member list, a list of fans, an area for tour dates, a blog, and a list of songs which have been uploaded for playing through Bebo's media player. These songs can even be grouped into albums, along with each album’s cover-art.

Bebo Authors

Also known as Bebo Books, Bebo Authors was first launched in 2007. While currently there is no way to display books on a profile page like there is for Bebo Music, in this section, authors can upload chapters of their books, and also get them reviewed by the community of Bebo users.

Bebo Groups

The "Group" module was added to Bebo in 2007. This enabled people to form and join groups such as schools, organizations, advocacies, and the like, the pages of which are only viewable to the members of the group. While primarily educational, the Group pages also gave users the chance to join groups they found interesting, as well as to connect with others who shared the same interests.

So it sounds like Bebo has got the components to make the best social networking site, eh? Create your own Bebo account now! Register for free and start networking and sharing your thoughts through Bebo.

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