Bebo Officially Shuts Down.

[Patrick]

At one stage it was one of their world's biggest social networking site.
But tonight it has very suddenly just closed down, out of the blue.

Literally no news on it at all around the web yet, but damn.

*Remembers being 11 when Bebo was your life*

[Niall]

Wtf is Bebo

[King Gizzard]

not even a fancy goodbye message either...server not found

[michael21]

about time :idc:

[Patrick]

not even a fancy goodbye message either...server not found

Ikr :joker:

[Samuel.]

Was it ever actually the biggest social networking site? It was around the same time MySpace was big.

[Patrick]

Was it ever actually the biggest social networking site? It was around the same time MySpace was big.

In 2008 lots of magazines were saying it was outdoing MySpace, when MySpace started dieing out.

It only lasted for about a year though in it's 'peak' then Facebook came along.

[King Gizzard]

Don't remind me of myspace :bawling:

The BEST social network site ever

[King Gizzard]

Bebo was never bigger than myspace

Bebo had all chavvy people..and myspace was filled with the rest

[Saph]

Bebo was for people in year 7 who thought they were cool :laugh:

[Ramsay]

I had like 30,000 profile views..dunno how i got that lol

[lily.]

Don't remind me of myspace :bawling:

The BEST social network site ever


I concur.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Omfg I made mine in 2007 when I was in yr.7, used to love it back then, EVERYBODY had it and compete for luvs i had like 1231 luvs or saink :lovedup: :(


So long as Piczo doesn't shut down!!!! Now that was the ****! Yr. 5 - Yr. 6 memories :bawling::bawling:

[Me. I Am Salman]

Bebo was for people in year 7 who thought they were cool :laugh:

PMSL story of my life! deleted it in year 8 :/

[Stu]

I wonder does my other half know? :bawling:

Yeah MySpace was always bigger but it was more of an American thing and it catered for everyone. Bebo was nothing in America but was big in Britain and huge in Ireland and catered mainly for teens. Really, really chavy, thick teens.

The peak was in 2006 when it was big but before all that app crap came along.

[Marc]

It was awful anyway :idc:

-is resentful of the fact I never received many 'loves'-

[Saph]

PMSL story of my life! deleted it in year 8 :/

I remember everyone took photos in their school uniform in the mirror :laugh2:

[Marc]

It was awful anyway :idc:

-is resentful of the fact I never received many 'loves'-

[Me. I Am Salman]

Why is everyone saying Bebo is for chavs!! It was well cool!
I'd love to go back to those days.
But NOTHING beats Piczo :lovedup:

[Shaun]

:bawling: I had loads of photos and messages on there. *****.

[Patrick]

I wonder does my other half know? :bawling:

Yeah MySpace was always bigger but it was more of an American thing and it catered for everyone. Bebo was nothing in America but was big in Britain and huge in Ireland and catered mainly for teens. Really, really chavy, thick teens.

The peak was in 2006 when it was big but before all that app crap came along.

Yeah, that's spot on there.

[Patrick]

Everyone on FaceBook is pissed off because they didn't give ANY notice at all - so no one had time to get their old pictures off or anything.

:laugh:
And TBH I don't think Bebo was for chavy teens initially, I remember it was used by students alot and people use to use it for Music purposes and sharing photos and all that - but then 'chavy teens' [and I was one of them] jumped on the bandwagon.

[Stu]

Why is everyone saying Bebo is for chavs!!
Because it was. It was populated with over eager, intellectually challenged knicker stains who got off on being, loud, shiny and thick.





























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[Shaun]

I WANT MY OLD PHOTOS GODDAMNIT, I HAD ONE OF ME IN FACEPAINT AS AN "ORIENTAL GIRL", IT WAS FIERCE, THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE :'(

-strop-

[Stu]

I was prepared nuclear fallout style for this and nabbed a select few photos from it a few years ago before closing my account.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/149613_104441156291592_100001771246440_26173_69420 38_n.jpg

Brap.

Off to kill myself, now.

[Shaun]

-waits for scott to say the other 4 guys are hot-

[Maia]

:bored:

Utter shame, Bebo was always loads of fun.

[michael21]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/7562278/AOL-prepares-to-shut-down-Bebo.html

:hmph:

[Stu]

You can see where we lit the grass on fire. It's got plenty of phone action in it, too. A sort of rose-in-the-rifle for the lost generation.

[Patrick]

I was prepared nuclear fallout style for this and nabbed a select few photos from it a few years ago before closing my account.


Did this myself aswell :laugh: but I must of ******ing burried the folder somewhere in my computer and can't find it anywhere.

I even took a few screencaps of my messages and comments, ****** sake.

[Patrick]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social-media/7562278/AOL-prepares-to-shut-down-Bebo.html

:hmph:

7th April.. 2010.

/articleinvalid

That was like the 4th 'Bebo Doomsday' Scare - but then it got bought again, I just read on Wiki the BBC said that the CEO of AOL buying Bebo again in 2010 was 'one of the worst mistakes ever made'.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

I was prepared nuclear fallout style for this and nabbed a select few photos from it a few years ago before closing my account.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/149613_104441156291592_100001771246440_26173_69420 38_n.jpg

Brap.

Off to kill myself, now.

okay the one with the blue jacket on, the one with his middle finger up and the one at the back with the white t on yes plz

[Stu]

I wish those waybackwhen type sites worked with Bebo. I'd love a snapshot of all my different page designs/what was going on.

A skin was like a gang tattoo. I also loved how everyones 'Scared of :' box said "NUFFIN AND NO1".

[Stu]

We were about 15, Scott.

The bloke in the foreground is now a card carrying alcoholic. I lived in his house over the summer.

[Patrick]

:bored:

Utter shame, Bebo was always loads of fun.

Twas Indeed.

I remember in Primary School I made about 3 Quid, charging 50p because I learnt how to 'make skinz' and would take requests for people. :laugh:
I thought I was the sh*t.

[Patrick]

I also loved how everyones 'Scared of :' box said "NUFFIN AND NO1".

:joker::joker::joker:

Oh and that waybackwhen site does work with Bebo, only the homepage though, not our profiles.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Haha i used to make skins on paint!! lmfao

Who remembers making space on your profile with that code
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it also works on twitter i've just figured out :o

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

We were about 15

oh :sad:

im a mess

[Ramsay]

Happiest When : sleepin n bein stoned n drunk innit!

[Stu]

It's all coming back.

My first profile photo was the BB6 eye. We all went through a period where we changed our profile pictures to mice in support of a mouse that was mercilessly hunted and killed in our school by the staff. Like a Prayer was my flashbox for like a whole year before everyone on the planet changed it to Cascada, biy. Taglines were brought in because people kept changing their name to something humorous.

'fuk ur ma'
'say that to my face'
'give me your adress and ill do more than dat'

[Me. I Am Salman]

I used to love making friends with those arrows like "CHOONGTYNG" and "HE'S GAY =]" so you could arrange them to point at your real mates on the friend list :laugh2:

[Z]

I'm a bit saddened that it's gone but I read that article about AOL preparing to shut it down ages ago and so saved all my pictures and put them on Facebook a while ago.. I don't know why people thought it would always be there - if nobody uses it, it's not just going to stick around, you know?

[Shaun]

oh my god

what was i thinking

http://i43.tinypic.com/1rrp8g.jpg

even the capcha to upload this was "slow down!", it shouldn't be shared that much

[Scarlett.]

Oh god, I remember the days of Bebo, I loved that site when I used it :D

[Patrick]

Who remembers those 'I LOVE MY GIRLFRIEND <3' skins that you use to get. :laugh:

I used to love making friends with those arrows like "CHOONGTYNG" and "HE'S GAY =]" so you could arrange them to point at your real mates on the friend list :laugh2:

^ DA LEGEND

> DA BESTIEE

< SHAGGER!

^ BANGIN HER

> DA BRO!

[Ramsay]

Yeah Zee i moved my pictures over to Facebook too like last year but i will miss never taking the opportunity to look over my old mail haha

[Stu]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/kingofthering/Image008.jpg

Don't look back in anger, I heard ya' say.

[Patrick]

'hey=) wanna be my other half??? xx'

'Nah sorry, waiting for my girlfriend to get an account'

'oh kk. maybe dis will change ur mind? http://i.neoseeker.com/m/585637_photo.jpg'

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

is this monstrous creation from bebo

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyl43f4JG21qey5g1o1_500.jpg

[Patrick]

is this monstrous creation from bebo

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyl43f4JG21qey5g1o1_500.jpg

:joker::joker::joker::joker::joker::joker:

[Ramsay]

they see me rollin they hatin

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/26147_1425835522862_1141985112_1282319_5494133_n.j pg

[Patrick]

they see me rollin they hatin

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/26147_1425835522862_1141985112_1282319_5494133_n.j pg

The girl at the back, trying to steal your thunder. :suspect:

[lily.]

I WANT MY OLD PHOTOS GODDAMNIT, I HAD ONE OF ME IN FACEPAINT AS AN "ORIENTAL GIRL", IT WAS FIERCE, THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE :'(

-strop-

That's ok, I saved that one [/stalker]






















































Don't get your hopes up. I was joking. lol

[Stu]

I used to upload parody Celebrity Big Brothers to my flashbox when we used to go drinking. It was basically me with my camera phone recording a friend of mine doing impressions of Yoko Ono, Shane McGowan, John Paul II and Morrissey in the 'diary room' [a blow up chair in the attic]. Had the title sequence and everything.

Jesus I wish I saved them.

"Yoko, where is John?"
"Jawn was vewy speshal to me! Dangadangno!"

Pass us another bottle of WKD.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Who remembers that saying thing you used to do at the bottom
i remember mine was once

"BIG BROTHER 9 iiS GONNA BE OFF THA SHiiZZLE X"

:yuk:

[lily.]

oh my god

what was i thinking

http://i43.tinypic.com/1rrp8g.jpg

even the capcha to upload this was "slow down!", it shouldn't be shared that much

haha. emo Shu <3

[Shaun]

That's ok, I saved that one

apparently, so did I

http://i40.tinypic.com/24fwcc8.jpg

[lily.]

lol.. I didn't actually save it.. but I'm damn glad you did lol

[lily.]

Interesting Article about the future of Facebook (http://io9.com/5875270/facebook-the-first-long+term-social-network/)

[bbfan1991]

I never liked Bebo:shrug:.

[Vicky.]

Never had bebo.

Myspace though :lovedup:

[Jessica.]

I remember when bebo added that thing where you had to verify your email address otherwise you couldn't post comments and people used to give me their account details to make an email address for them and verify it, because they didn't know how.

I made skins too, in paint and Paint.NET, people in school would be like "Jess make me a skin" and I would change them 3 "luvs". I didn't figure out how to make flashy ones until I stopped using bebo, I would have gotten so much more "luv".

[billy123]

News of Bebo’s demise appears greatly exaggerated! Technical hitches are understood to be the reason for Bebo going offline last night

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/new-media/item/25558-bebos-gone-dark-but-its/

[Locke.]

Think I deleted mine a while ago, or my pictures at least. Couldn't have anyone finding them.

[Saph]

I used to make people put me on the top line of the friends list :suspect:

[Ramsay]

Ho7eJuJFdH8

[Josy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/16810502

He needs to make his mind up :bored:

"Am super sad that Bebo has actually gone. Some very fun times with very cool people. #RIPbebo - keep sharing that luv!"

But it wasn't long before he tweeted again, creating the mix up.

"Hold the press (too late for that). Bebo should be coming back in a matter of hours. #LongLiveBebo".

[arista]

:bawling: I had loads of photos and messages on there. *****.


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[Harry!]

I can remember someone on here friend made me join Bebo, I used it for like a day and never used it again.