Bebo's coming back: 'it'll be fun' reinventing it, say original
founders  Xochi and Michael Birch, pictured in 2008  Ewan
McIntosh/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0  Remember Bebo? For some of you, it
was the social network you used before you grew up and migrated
to the big bad world of Facebook. For others, Bebo was a
platform for role-playing Harry Potter characters. For kids from
Northern Ireland and Scotland, it was a sinking ship that you
were the last to abandon.  For Michael and Xochi Birch, it's
their latest purchase.  On 1 July, Michael Birch tweeted: "we
just bought back Bebo for $1 million [£660,000]. Can we actually
re-invent it? Who knows, but it will be fun trying..."  The
couple cofounded Bebo in 2005, and told the BBC they envisaged
it being "a very good version of MySpace... but with the product
quality of Facebook". By 2007, it had become the most visited
social network in the UK, overtaking MySpace.  In March 2008,
when Bebo had around 40 million users, they sold the site to AOL
for a staggering $850 mi