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Bebo Backstage
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- Me, Myself, and I
- This is the official Bebo group where we announce new features, discuss issues, and create polls to seek your input!
Make suggestions and vote on the ones you luv at the Bebo Feedback Forum! http://feedback.bebo.com
***This is not a help blog!****
If you have a question, feel free to post it, but Bebo will not be able to respond. If you're a user who knows the answer though, feel free to help out!
Bebo Customer Support Team: http://www.bebo.com/contactus
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We Messed Up... And We're Sorry!
Dear Bebo'ers,
As you probably noticed we were out of commission for a while starting on Tuesday. We have been fortunate that in the nearly seven years that Bebo has been in operation, these glitches have been few and far between. Still, we work hard every day to keep the site constantly working and we heard from many of you -- loud and clear -- how much your lives were affected by the outage. We are both profoundly sorry and profoundly moved by the outpouring of comments on blogs, Twitter and elsewhere.
Once we had everything back up in perfect order, we realized we needed to explain what happened so Nigel from Marketing went back into storage and pulled out the Big Book of Website Excuses (2012 Edition). Among the options considered:
1. "Occupy" protesters took over Bebo.
2. Another internet company was protesting against SOPA/PIPA.
3. Time to get a new server... That Amiga 500 has gone as far as it can go.
4. Huge spike in traffic exceeded our server capacity and brought the site down.
5. Time off for the staff to watch a Harry Potter Marathon on Blu-Ray.
6. Just a publicity stunt to get more attention.
7. Government-mandated program to get users to spend more time outdoors.
8. Too many cute cat photos causes our servers to run out of disk space.
9. New policy: turn the site off one day per week to reduce greenhouse emissions.
10. It was all just a dream.
But in the end, we thought it best to just be honest and tell you the truth: we were working on some new features (pretty cool ones, I might add) and in the process we crashed the site. Embarrassing, but true. And we worked as hard as possible to restore everything as fast as we could. Unfortunately, on a site as complex as Bebo, with as many users, these things take time.
We're not going anywhere. (And even if we were, we wouldn't just disappear into the night without even saying thanks, right?) The fact is: Bebo has a fantastic future ahead and we've been working on some new things that we're truly excited about. We can't wait to share them with you, but of course we'll be a bit more careful as we roll these things out.
In the meantime, if you haven't already, check out these comments. Some are funny. Some are touching. Some are frankly kind of mean. But that's Bebo users in a nutshell, isn't it?
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realti...
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realti...
Lots of luv!
Adam (CEO)
33 Comments 16 weeks
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Big News! iPhone App! Contest! and More!
Hey, Bebo'ers!
Got some huge news to share with you all today. As many of you may recall, Bebo was one of the first social networks to put out a spiffy little iPhone app. Sadly, the app disappeared earlier this year, a casualty of the transition from AOL.
But today we're announcing that very shortly you'll be able to get your hands on a brand new Bebo Mobile App! Developed from scratch for iPhone and iPod Touch, and compatible with iPad, the Bebo Mobile App was built to make it easier, faster, and more fun to do the things you do on Bebo everyday -- wherever you are.
Here's a few sneak peeks to whet your appetite: http://blog.bebo.com/?p=348 !
You'll see the app's home page and notice that you can change your status right from there.
You'll be able to keep up with your friends' posts and comment with ease.
You'll check out your notifications, photos and more -- all on the go.
But perhaps the coolest new feature is our mobile photo uploader. Not only can you take a picture and add it straight to one of your portfolios, and not only can you upload photos from your iPhone photo library -- but you can customize those photos right on your iPhone! Add stickers (like glasses, hats or cuddly animals), jot text straight on the photo, or draw your thoughts with your finger. We've been having a blast with this here at Bebo HQ!
Pretty cool, huh? And best of all, we're launching it on December 24th as an early Christmas present to all our users. So check back here on Christmas Eve for all the details!
But wait...
We're doing it again! Our Summer of Bebo sweepstakes was such a hit that we convinced the powers-that-be to let us run one more contest before 2012.
Announcing the 25 Days of Bebo Sweepstakes! Just like last time you'll be automatically entered to win cool stuff just for doing the things you already do on Bebo. And just like last time, the game changes every day. One day you'll receive entries for every photo you upload. Another day it might be for sending friend requests or receiving Luv!
Check out all the details here: http://www.bebo.com/c/prize !
The contest kicks off TODAY (December 1st) and runs through Christmas (December 25th). And to celebrate the launch of our mobile app, each week we'll be giving away a brand new iPod Touch. But there's more. At the end of the contest, one lucky user will win a brand new iPad 2! So try to enter as often as you can.
Whew, that was a lot of stuff to share. More soon!
Lots of luv,
Team Bebo![[b]](http://s.bebo.com/img/smiley/eico_bebo.gif)
20 Comments 25 weeks
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Bebo Users Have the Control Over Their Community
Hey Bebo'ers!
Let's talk about bullying and bad users, for a second. Bebo wants its users to know that it is all of YOU who have the power to prevent bad users from remaining on Bebo.
Here’s how to stop bad Bebo users in their tracks:
1. Click the Report Abuse link on the misbehaved user’s profile. The Report Abuse link can be found on either the lower left-hand link bar underneath a users default picture OR if the user has their profile set to private, in the grey box on the user preview window. You can also report Bands and Groups who are in violation of Bebo rules as well.
2. Be specific! Bebo will ask you to provide both the reason WHY you are reporting and an EXAMPLE of it, as proof. (Everyone on Bebo is innocent until proven guilty, so users can’t just go making stuff up about each other.) Try to provide as much information about an example of abuse as possible.
3. Info info info! Items like member usernames, URLs to profiles or pictures, etc. are the mot helpful to the Bebo Customer Service team. Even if an account is private, a URL leading to a misbehaving member’s profile is more helpful than nothing at all!
4. Always report abuse! Even if you have reported abuse on a user before, reporting them again helps build a case against a user in the system. This allows the team at Bebo to see any history of abuse a user might have and can help separate the problematic users from a random user who happened to be a totally jerk for a day.
Bad users suck and Bebo wants you to help us keep our community clean and clear of these kinds of users!
Lots of Luv
Bebo
#teambebo16 Comments 25 weeks
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- Collage Corkboard - “hang” and rearrange your favorite photos, bands, comments on your profile.
- Comic Book Tool - create a comic book style story with your photos and speech bubbles and share it.
- Avatar - dress up your creation and use it as an interactive profile picture.
- Awards System - award your friends with cool trophies for “most talkative” or “most fun” etc
- Group Story - start to write a story, let a friend continue writing the story and then vote on it.
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- Actually, I like to use skins that my friends are using
i need another half >.<
I taut bebo could not get any slower it has ! can you do something about it please?
has bebo turned in to porn ?? don't come on here much any more,but when i do all i see on my home page is some pic of a cock commenting on some girl's pic of her with her boobs out !!
Oh my Gosh! @ this Backstage page! ... Where has everyone gone? LOL! ... Y'all remember the one and only PARIS of Backstage? ha ha! ... Nawwwwww! Well I'm back! dahahah! hope everyone is enjoying BEBO! ... CHEERRRRRRS!!
*sighs* ...
So nearly 5 years later ... I'm the only Original Chatter still stuck on here in LIMBO! dahahahah!!!
I love your page
save bebo, it needs saving, stuff your facebook! its rubbish! bebo is my life and it needs saving, please can my twitter widget be added to my profile as soon as possible please. that and getting more members to bebo, is there any way?
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We Messed Up... And We're Sorry!
Still no response to your faithful beboers.....
WHAT IS HAPPENING ????????
Nothing working , comments going amiss, features not been done in weeks, PEEPS leaving by the hundreds as you have not even the made 1 public comment to inform your loyal followers....You dont even read these , last comment was 9th feb now its the 7th of MAY.
I love my bebo along with hundreds of others so please please , 1 little comment to tell us all is well
love ..lizziekskins xxxxx
bebo rules
i just wish that there was new features that would help the site and not crash it, bring back nearly everyone from fb, cause bebo rules
Me and my sister thou bebo was gone for god as we were very up set that we couldin get on to chat to our family or friends as we
bebo never off it as we not go facebook hope it wi not close down load n loads n loads of poeple would miss it truely love joanne x x
IS ANYONE WORKIN AT BEBO ANYMORE?
im new add me please
I still don't think PHOTO COMMENTS should appear in your lifestream!!
Seriously? You still not accepting comments?
Anyway, everytime I try to upload a video to my group profile, it uploads to my personal profile. Sort it out!
And I think we should have the option to post photo comments and poll comments under our group name.
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is there anyone at all working here....
whats happened to the features for skins ??????
All comments on home page are disappearing , no one answers any comments on here since the 9th feb . Was it all lies when you posted your shout...below
We luv our Bebo'ers! Sorry about the scare but we're not going anywhere!
then where the hell are you when your LOYAL BEBOERS need you
disgusted bebo user
Bebo, did someone hit your admin's really, REALLY hard over the head with a sharp, metal object? Because, if not, then I really can't see any explanation as to why this site seems to be losing quality instead of gaining it.
I honestly don't think people see the reason to staying here when we often have to spend ten minutes pasting the same message into the "comment" box in the feed JUST to get it to FINALLY post.
hello is this true
Yahoo is saying bebo will shut down between May and June
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Can we have some new skins featured
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Good job all round with everything ..
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