Design Analysis of Bebo

For my jump into the water of a foreign online social networking was Bebo. Bebo, like its american counterparts, is a general all encompassing social networking site targeting European and Latin clients. It's process of joining and setting up a profile is nearly identical to any other social networking site. You pick a screen name, put in an email, fill it with your birth day, pictures, hobbies, and favorite movies ect. Perhaps the only draw back in signing up for this site specifically was that it kind of defeated the purpose it was built for. For myself, the only reason to build and keep up a site like Bebo, is that I would not even have the slightest idea how to go about adding friends and networking. By picking a site based on a European market is that I had no anchor to start with. For most people who join social networking sites, they are prompted to do so by some real life person. Thus having a starting place in which to add people from. Bebo reminded me a lot of Facebook in how it is set up with live feed updates and lay out. However it does look a bit sleeker, and I do actually prefer their black lay out. I can see why it would be appealing to people.