I’ve had a profile on Bebo, and MySpace for a while now, quickly abandoning MySpace due to it’s terrible performance. To this day I regularly-ish log in to Bebo and browse around a bit. Yesterday, I logged into my Facebook account to chat to one of my few friends actually on Facebook, because they couldn’t log into Windows Live Messenger. Anyway, during the conversation, I found my experience on Facebook so much more pleasurable than Bebo. The interface is cleaner, it loads quicker, it doesn’t have error messages every 3 clicks.

But then I noticed some other things that makes Facebook far superior. On Bebo the home page will display everything your top 100 friends do, no matter what. Facebook however, allows you to set whether you see more, or less, of particular friends. Separate tabs divide the profile into easier to digest sections, using AJAX to switch between them. The application platform (on which Bebo’s platform is based) is just so much more advanced, and doesn’t slow the entire network down (like Bebo).

And last, but not least is their latest service (which hasn’t fully launched yet) – Facebook Connect. This allows you to use your Facebook account to post comments on external blogs, make signing up to websites quicker and easier, in a similar vein to OpenID. However, what Facebook Connect does that OpenID doesn’t is post you’re actions (if you so choose) to your Facebook Wall. Allowing you to join into discussions friends are having without even talking to them. It’s all completely opt-in, so if it’s not for you, then just simply don’t use it.

Now, all I need to do is get all my friends onto Facebook…