A new feature on the social networking website Bebo, is the ability to give the Bebo website access your Address Book on various e-mail systems, it then does a comparison check with your address book against its database of millions of users, and tells you which of your e-mail contacts are using BeBo. While this is a very ‘cool’ feature of the site, it also increases the risk factor of non-friends finding your profile. So what, you might say, but take this example, I was recently working on a professional basis with one particular company, and noticed my contact there had a profile (through the e-mail comparison tool) this girl seemed very professional in my dealings with her, however her BeBo profile told a different story, pictures of nights out rude comments and so on. While all this is of course in good fun, and ‘no harm’ was done, it does bring up the question of being careful on the net.

Do you really want your customers to know this side of you? And I suppose it also begs the question, have I nothing better to do than be on bebo myself?

Just be BeBo careful on the internet!