If you are an old bebo.com user, then you may have had a heck of a time trying to keep your account content when Bebo was sold to AOL (America Online) and then bought back by the original creators. Consequentially, their accounts have been disabled and removed from the Bebo archive.

Who invented Bebo?

Michael Birch Michael Birch, who co-founded the site with his wife, Xochi, in 2005, tweeted late on Monday: We just bought back Bebo for $1m.