Bebo!

While stumbling this weekend I came across a website I am unfamiliar with. Because I thought it was pretty cool I decided to write this weeks blog post over the specific website. The website is called Bebo and it's a social networking site that allows users to share pretty much anything. It has almost all of the capabilities both Myspace and Facebook provide but with additional features!

Bebo allows users to customize the background of their page, add music and videos the user is interested in, add pictures, and comment on friend’s posts. Bebo users can also blog, play games and share information about themselves! Users can even generate questionnaires, or polls to share with their friends. Like most forms of social media you can choose to make your profile private or public, and can send personal messages to anyone you would like.

Bebo is an acronym meaning blog early, bog often and was launched in 2005.

This website seemed pretty interesting to me and I was surprised that I had never heard of it before. I believe the reason why I have not heard of it before might be because Bebo users are quite young.

I will have to look into this social networking website some more, and maybe one day I will even make myself a Bebo account


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The Power of Social Media

While checking out websites online, I came across an article by Michael Sebastian titled Mobile Marketing. This article contained several interesting statistics regarding social media and other forms of communication.

I discovered there are 4 billion mobile phones currently used in the World today. More than likely, this number will only continue to grow. Out of these 4 billion cellphones worldwide, 1.08 billion are smartphones, which means the users phone contains Internet.

This number is so significant because it shows how easily getting to different forms of social media is!

Americans spend 2.7 hours a day socializing on their phones. That’s twice the amount of time Americans spend eating!

Over 1/3 of Facebook’s 600 million users use Facebook Mobile, and out of Twitter’s 165 million users, 50% use Twitter mobile. These statistics show PR professionals how important it is to have some form of social media for their business!

This article is proof that today people world wide are constantly using social media to get their news and communicate so get out there and join!

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