It saddens me to say that recently that one of my favourite websites from a few years ago is on the verge of shutting down. Bebo was an excellent website in it's time, it was the first Social Networking website I truly got into, there was Facebook and MySpace back then aswell, I had accounts in these but never had my interest piqued. Bebo's popularity rose rapidly and was once a topic of discussion across the country in schoolyards, everyone had a Bebo account, you were considered weird otherwise pretty much.
However all good things must come to an end, AOL has announced the shutting down of the Bebo website, lack of visitors and the crippling cost in attempting to compete with the uber popular Facebook has struck a fatal blow to the Bebo phenomena. Bebo's downfall is epitomised by this statistic, it's global unique visitor level actually plummeted 45% down to 12.8 million, in comparison to Facebooks 462 million you can see why AOL has decided to cut their losses on that well publicised massive offer of $850 million which they invested into the website back in 2008.
Bebo you may soon be gone but will never be forgotten!
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