Bebo Who? What?

Bebo named best social networking site...

Bebo has overcome its rivals Facebook and MySpace to be named the best social networking site by an independent consumer report.

According to Computing Which? magazine, which carried out the study, the site - aimed at 13-24-year-olds - encourages "responsible networking" which allows users to protect their privacy and security

I admit I was first a MySpace Addict, then I inhaled the crack cocaine of FaceBook, but this new Bebo thing? Never tried it, yet in the UK its the social networking drug of choice - so what do the Brits know that I don't know?

Ok so here I go trying out Bebo.
*Entering a couple forms.*
The boring/annoying/neccessary details of setting up a new account. Thumbs down.

*Checking my potential friend list through my hotmail contacts...*
Ah this is fun, it not only found my friends, but people I might know who are friends of friends - cool. And shockingly (or not) 6 of my friends are already here on Bebo ahead of me. And it checks off all my friends who might like to be invited... What the heck I'll invite them to this new thing... Thumbs up.

*pausing to uncheck my mom's email from the list and submitting it*

Ok now I'm in- I'm an official bebo chick. First I must find a profile photo....
*fiddling with the photo upload interface*

Actually that was pretty fast and painless - bebo gets a thumbs up here.

Now to search for some friends.
*selects a random person from her past and enters it into the search interface*
Is it scary that I found a friend? But it looks like they aren't too into bebo as they have no profile picture.

*selects another random person from my past*
Nope, nope to the next and the next.

Kurt Angle by the way has about 205 fake profiles. Chris Jericho has 285.

Ok time to check the applications...
*hits the applications link a few times and finds it does nothing*
thumbs down.

I can review my outstanding friend requests - a nice feature facebook ought to have.
Thumbs up

*Clicking on Explore and waiting a long long time*
Thumbs down

*something happens*
A random profile video starts. bah

Time to search for any family relatives... last name of 'dykes' this should be fun!
2016 possibilities...time to get more specific.

Bingo - sister in law's profile. Thumbs Up.
I don't want to be her friend at the moment... Tests out the Block functionality - for fun and privacy.

Nice - Double Thumbs up.

Ok I have no friends so I'm bored of bebo.. Let's check back in a few days to see what the hype is all about.