How to Make Friends on Bebo

Bebo is a sort of fun socializing site--much like myspace, facebook or even ehow! Well, maybe not ehow--we are so much more, are we not, people? Our vast wealth of knowledge is seemingly limitless. A question about how to apply blush? Ehow's your man! Or woman, as the case may be. Or one woman, even. Ok, it's me. I totally wrote that article. Or maybe you want to know how to dissect a frog. Or mow your lawn expertly. Or how to have a better relationship with your mother. Ehow. Ehow. Also? Ehow. We have it all. But if Bebo was a magazine, it would be a Glamour or a Cosmo or something lame/fun like that. Whereas Ehow is more like Vogue or InStyle. I know you already made that comparison in your head--I'm just saying the things everybody thinks.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Sociability
• Stunning good looks
• Endless hours to devote to wasting your life away on the internet

1. Are you a girl? Ok. Your life is cake. Wait. That's not necessarily true. If you're beautiful, clear-skinned, thin and alluring, your life is cake. Post one pic and you'll have the whole network clamoring to be your friend. I think it's fun to sort of mix it up a little. One week, put up a super glam pic. Another, something of you having just woken up. This way, you'll amass a cool collection of people. Not just men hankering to sex you up on line and begging to meet up with you for caffeinated beverages and boring banter about crap you hate.
2. Fill out all their questionnaires, quizzes, etc. The more info you have posted, the more attractive your profile will be.
3. If you keep an active (interesting) blog, people will keep checking for new entries and want to be your bebo pal. I find 2 a week keeps people perked.
4. Invite friends of your own! I know it's sort of the equivalent of asking someone out and that's heinously disgusting if you're a girl, but why the hell not. But only if you really love their profile. Otherwise, you'll have created an invitation to someone who might get the wrong idea and message you 50,000 times and you'll end up having to cancel your account.
5. Be sure to include your Bebo account info on your other sites like us, myspace and facebook. This way, you might inspire your peeps to sign on and create a new, fun community.

Tips & Warnings

• Don't get together with people you originally meet on these sites. People lie. Don't kid yourself.
• If you're desperate/stupid/dumb enough to actually meet someone, demand their email, additional pictures, and bank account number first. This way, you can at least verify they are who they say they are. Also, alert many of your friends as to where you'll be during that first meeting.