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There are few major new feature roll outs on Facebook that don't receive a good amount of backlash from the user community, but that never seemed to be the case with its applications. Bebo, however, is seeing the opposite situation take place. Do a Google search for Bebo Apps and you'll get a handful of links taking you to sites where Bebo users are proclaiming their disdain for the new Applications platform. Several Bebo users have even banned together in order to speak out against Bebo supposedly turning into Facebook.
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]If this is simply a matter of Bebo looking like a copycat in comparison to Facebook, then how did Google manage to become exempt from such accusations on a large scale? Google's OpenSocial took a varied and cooperative approach to competing with Facebook's open platform, signing on even more copycats to take a stance against the overwhelming success of Facebook's applications. Friendster and all the others that have launched and announced their plans to launch similar platforms have also escaped such seething push back from their users, so far at least.
So what's the deal with Bebo? One of the most popular campaigns has taken a full-fledged approach to petitioning against Bebo Apps, with a Bebo user behind it all, launching a Bebo group for an anti-Bebo Applications homepage. Interestingly enough, the user has taken an image of compiled Facebook application images from Mashable.
An array of reasons for group members dismissing Bebo Apps range from their crashing all the time to not wanting annoying invites from friends that have added apps to their own profile. Other's merely complain of the fact that Bebo can no longer differentiate itself from Facebook by not having applications. This isn't what Bebo and any future potential buyers want to hear.
