
The unlikely return of Bebo
February 2021 sees Bebo — the social media website co-founded at the beginning of 2005 by Michael Birch — return. But why?
- Words by: Josh Lee

February 2021 sees Bebo — the social media website co-founded at the beginning of 2005 by Michael Birch — return. But why?

February 2021 sees Bebo — the social media website co-founded at the beginning of 2005 by Michael Birch — return. But why?
“Sooner or later, everything old is new again,” goes the noted Stephen King line. And, in 2021, a year in which a mauling public health crisis continues to usher us towards taking shelter in the familiar and comforting, Bebo, the social media phenomenon which drew cult devotion during the noughties, is back, according to an announcement on its website.
“Sooner or later, everything old is new again,” goes the noted Stephen King line. And, in 2021, a year in which a mauling public health crisis continues to usher us towards taking shelter in the familiar and comforting, Bebo, the social media phenomenon which drew cult devotion during the noughties, is back, according to an announcement on its website.
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