It really was inevitable wasn’t it? With no political scandals as of late it was typical of Miriam and co. to latch onto the latest phenomenon and produce a scaremongering report into the social-networking site Bebo.
In it’s attempt to produce an expert and indepth report the program starts off with the story of a 16 year old in Dublin who posted an image of someone hanging themselves on his Bebo profile. This same 16 year old then commited suicide a few days later. Fingers were pointed at Bebo.com. I can’t understand why though. Is it because his parents didn’t want to admit that they did a terrible job of bringing their son up or his “friends” didn’t want to admit that bullying him over the years may have had an impact on him? Maybe it’s both! But that’s no reason for Bebo to take the hit on it. In fact, if I saw my friend posting up pictures of someone hanging themselves on Bebo it would set off warning bells in my head and I’d strive to help that friend because obviously their screwed up in the head.
A Ken O’Shea then went “around Dublin” speaking to users of Bebo. Hardly “around Dublin” though when you listen to the deplorable D4 accents! So apparently the views given by 3 Dublin teenagers (living in D4) are the views and opinions of everyone else in Dublin? Yeah. Whatever.
After that wonderful insight into Bebo provided by those esteemed students, Miriam invites Ken to show everyone the site that he has been looking at for the past 2 days! Yes, two days and all of a sudden he’s in the position to offer an expert’s view on the workings of Bebo. It’s obvious that all he did was search for the most offensive images and cases to present Bebo in the worst light possible. Not one advantage of Bebo is mentioned at all. Probably because he doesn’t know there are such advantages having only used the site for 2 days with the sole aim of finding offensive material!
I know that I have been a critic of Bebo in the past but that was because I had the right to be one as there were very clear and present dangers. However they improved their policies and now I don’t see any dangers to responsible users. If your son or daughter isn’t responsible then don’t leave them near the site because clearly after seeing this Prime Time report they’ll end up becoming hard-core drug users, posting pornography before comitting suicide.
Everytime Michael Birch began to make a good point, Miriam interjected and slowed his momemtum because after all, it wouldn’t be right if the one person who had a clue what he was talking about was able to make a fair point. Prime Time, fuck off scaremongering.
If you missed the prime time report then you can watch it here (opens in a new window, RealPlayer required)
tagsBebo, prime time, rte, Michael Birch, scaremongeringtags
Think we’re on a gold mine here Adam, we’ll set up a consultation service where we meet with concerned parents, try and locate their sons/daughthers on bebo and show them how much their kids like to drink and where they head to at weekends lol
hey. i came across ur site wen i was goin on bebo. i dunno who u r or wt da fuck ur tlkn bout but i jst wana say bebo kicks @ss!!!!!!!!! : ) u rule man! frm anna, im 15 btw
hey jst read sum guy called liams message 2 u. i nw hv changed my opinion of u. u suck dickhead! im gonna get da message out 2 ppl on bebo dat u r tryin 2 ruin our lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! u will regret dis! im gonna keep leavin u messages every day 4 da rest of ur life
IM BACK
ERE I AM AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!! ; (
Why on God’s earth would you leave such non-sensical comments??
If you had read everything properly you would have figured out that Adam was merely trying to do the users of Bebo a favour!
Some people just elude me.
i dunno u so im gonna ignore ur message
btw im bored wiv u adam so gdbye i wnt b bk
Yet you didn’t ignore “some guy called liams message”?
no….coz..i dnt hv a reason…hhmmm…o well bubi
anyway im bk….mainly coz im very bored nd well…dats it really….so hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!….yes im normal……
hhhmmmmmmmmm…..i hv jst fully read ur report thingy and yes ur right….so i wuld like 2 take bk wt i sed b4 hahahahahahaha lol
bebo is shut down is it bcoz of dis?????
Bebo isn’t shut down. It’s just down. I can assure you that my report has nothing to do with this. In fact, my report is horribly outdated and only remains online for archival purposes.
My name is Jennifer Meeks and i would like to be unblock from bebo so iI can check my mail that people have been sending me please do this four me
just stumbled across this while browsing your awesome music download things
but my man you got it very wrong when you said that guy was bullied. he was the happiest kid in his year. as to his parents doing a terrible job. ive seen his brother around aswell and i think there maybe some form of mental illness in his family. just thought you should know. didn’t like that bold statement.
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iya whoz dis and wat are u up to my name is rebecca anderson i am 15 and i live in ely
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I wish there was a way to unblock facebook and bebo at school anyone no how?
dus ney1 no a web u can get on bebo in skwl
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take the piss not gettin on to bebo
Am fuked of with my fukin skool blockin bebo all the fukin time does any one no any syts what so ever that can let you go on bebo with out being a proxy or cookies would love sum syts pllllzzz really doing ma head in
hw du u block bebo
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