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Once-popular social media service, Bebo, is making a comeback with young people across Australia as they prepare for the impending apocalypse.
The thinking teen’s MySpace has been in the social media doldrums for nearly 20 years with users abandoning it in the late 2000s for other platforms such as Snapchat and the Face Book. It has flown under the radar ever since.
As the government looks to further extend its ability to filter what ordinary Australians see and do, people under the age of 16 are finding ways to circumvent the ban and they made have found a way in Bebo, which currently sits outside the proposed amendments to the Online Security Act 2021.
One teenager making the switch is Daley Grainger, a year nine student at Green Road State School in Betoota Heights.
Staring down the possibility of having TikTok and other social media platforms removed from her life, the 15-year-old said she’s hedging her bets with this ancient platform.
“I feel like an archaeologist using this website,” she told The Advocate.
“They don’t even have an app. You need to use a full computer to see everything. I’m surprised it didn’t come on a CD-ROM. But I think it’s nice. Weird but nice,”
“But this is what they’re reducing us to.”
More to come.
