Bebo

Bebo, Inc.
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
Social networking service
Available inMultilingual
FoundedJanuary 2005; 19 years ago (2005-01)[1]
DissolvedMay 2022
HeadquartersLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Michael Birch
Xochi Birch
Products
ParentThe Monkey Inferno
URLbebo.com (redirects to Poply)
LaunchedJuly 2005

Bebo (/ˈbb/ BEE-boh) was an American social networking website that originally operated from 2005 until its bankruptcy in 2013 and relaunched in February 2021. The site relaunched several times after its bankruptcy with a number of short-lived offerings, including instant messaging and video streaming, until its acquisition by Amazon in July 2019 when it was shut down. It was announced in January 2021 that it would be returning as a new social-media site the month after. By May 2022, it had once again been shut down, without having ever left beta-testing.

The site was founded by Michael Birch and Xochi Birch.

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