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I'd forgotten it existed, God knows how many years since I logged on. Anyone still use it?
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Funnily enough I logged on about 2 months ago having not touched it in 6 or 7 years.
I thought it was great in its early days, but it never progressed.
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Can't say I ever used it, i would think fb was the end of it.
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I tired ot for the first time in about 5 years a few months ago, and it seems like everyone there packed up and left years ago. It was good at first hooked up with a few guys from school and early days at work, but as someone said, Facebook killed it.
Something, someday, will kill Facebook
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I was a fairly early user of Friends Reunited. I'd say it was back in a time when not everyone had PCs at home, or if they did they were a bit frightened of them, and FR was one of the first sensible toe-in-the water apps for some people. I might be wrong though.
Anyway I hooked up with a few old school friends digitally, then physically as a result. I now don't use the site but am still meeting the lads regularly (about once a year!). So I'm grateful to them...
It's yet another product that has come to life and died in a short period - just 11 years...
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I CANNOT WAIT.
My Page that. My Page this. I am sick to ruddy death of hearing about the two faced thing.
Mind you I have the same views about Currynation street. Eastenders. Holbys shcitty and anything else of that ilk.
ALSO the ruddy American CRAP that seems to be on OUR Goggle box.
Don't get me started on the adverts.........
Name change soon. Everyone else has done it so y not me.
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Sounds like you need to disconnect the tele and Internet for a bit of peace and quiet ;)
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>> Name change soon. Everyone else has done it so y not me.
May I suggest MoG
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>> >> Name change soon. Everyone else has done it so y not me.
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>> May I suggest MoG
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Oy! Not so much of the old0:-)
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>> Something, someday, will kill Facebook
Hopefully sooner rather than later.
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I went on Friends Reunited and my ex-wife found me so that rather took the shine off. I joined facetweet ages ago for about a week, but then realised there were a lot of nutters on there and closed my account on that too.
I prefer these "anonymous" forums. Ok many of us know who each other are really ( or think we do, he hints mysteriously ) but you're not waving your private life about in front of an audience of millions.
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but you're not waving your privatelife about in front of an audience of millions.
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Just discussing your washing habits with a crowd of old blokes. :-)
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I do hope I never have the opportunity to find out for sure, but I do sometimes wonder if the conversations here are often similar to those found in the day room at an old peoples home.
Charming though some of them are of course.
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>> I do hope I never have the opportunity to find out for sure, but I
>> do sometimes wonder if the conversations here are often similar to those found in the
>> day room at an old peoples home.
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Or a role-play game at one of those awful work training sessions.
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>> I went on Friends Reunited and my ex-wife found me so that rather took the
>> shine off.
Do you mean you met your ex-wife via FR or that you ran into each other there in that sort of embarrasing way that might otherwise happen at a smart restaurant.
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I was reunited with my first serious girlfriend thru FR.
Some memories should just be left as memories!
Anyway, think there is a future in Bebo??? 😀
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One of the minor and slight advantages, RD'H, of having my forum name is that a Google for it yields not much useful. Searching, however, for something like, oh I don't know, "Runfer D'Hills" yields 5000 results, all of them yours...
:)
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Think I might change it to John Smith...
;-)
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...apparently, I'm alive and well and living in Sydney, Aus.
Weather's pretty unseasonable, I must say!
;-)
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Five thousand ?....five schmousand !
I got 345 million ! Not all mine, I expect.
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>> >> Something, someday, will kill Facebook
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What a bizarre suggestion. A bit like saying you'd like email to be killed off.
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>> What a bizarre suggestion. A bit like saying you'd like email to be killed off.
Not really, unless you go around emailing everyone telling them that you've just wiped your backside, chased a fly around the room, or something else no one could give a toss about.
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Whatever does eventually dethrone Facebook is bound to be even more irritating to the Facebook haters than Facebook ever was, so I can't see why a Facebook hater would want to impose something even worse upon the world and themselves.
Odd.
BTW, I hate Facebook and don't use it. The latter fact being my way of not getting irritated by it. Live and let live.
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I more than once tried to check out my old school: William Penn, Red Post Hill, in Dulwich. It kept coming up with a mixed school whereas WP was boys only. Maybe it became mixed after I left there for a school which was approved.
My missus got in touch with an old school friend via FR some 15 years ago, and is still in weekly contact with her now.
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I have a lot to thank Friends Reunited for, or more to the point the Genes Reunited bit which AFAIK is still running; it was through that site that I regained contact with my son and daughter.
The Genes Reunited offshoot also helped me to establish contact with my birth family; I was adopted at 8 weeks of age.
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I only used it a couple of times, and once I had located a couple of old school friends decided not to pursue the contact further. Found an old flame from my early twenties... A two year long distance relationship with a Dutch girl at Leiden Uni. Fortnightly trips on NS Ferries Hull-Rotterdam. Again I decided that some things are best left in the past.
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Had a closing email rom FR as follows:
In the summer of 2000 we launched FriendsReunited as a method for people to find their old friends from their school days.
The internet was in its infancy and the world was a very different place. Social Networking was not even a term anyone used, but FriendsReunited grew very quickly to become one of the largest sites in the UK.
A lot has happened since.
In 2005 we sold the site and moved on. We watched from a distance whilst other sites came and went but for some, social networking became ingrained in our life and is here to stay.
During that time FriendsReunited declined. Despite efforts to reverse this trend it couldn‘t compete with the giant services like Facebook.
Not long ago I was approached by the FriendsReunited owners, to see if I wanted to take it back and try some new projects with it. It was evident that putting the site back to be more like its original form was not a service people would get excited about using again. The site is still used by a handful of members however it has become clear that the site is no longer really used for the purpose it was built for. For the site to continue it needs a complete re write and this is just not viable.
Therefore, it is with a heavy heart, that we have decided to close the service down. This will commence in the next month, We do recognise that people have a lot of old photos within their profiles on the site. We will therefore provide a link to allow you to login and download your photos. You will be receiveing an email in the coming months with further information on this.
Although FriendsReunited is closing, we are also opening a completely new service called Liife.
Liife is all about capturing key moments in your life - both the past and the present. And then sharing them with just the important people who actually took part in those moments.
There is a lot more to liife than just that though - if you want to register your interest then go to www.liife.com. More information will follow.
To read more about the above click here
I joined it around 2003. Oddity of software was that it used you're leaving date to allocate you to a year cohort. OK for my 11-18 years but I had to lie that I'd left a primary school in 1971 rather than 69 to be in ight group - we moved house.
Found whereabouts of a few people I'd thought of in years since leaving school. Somebody else used it to arrange a get together from my primary school c2011.
Two folks I'd shared a flat with in eighties, and who became a couple, traced me through it. We exchange e-mails periodically but I'm not sure meeting in flesh would work. All three of us know I got a deflection off the post with her a year before he scored. Might colour their judgements (and that of Mrs B) at any reunion.
The key bit in that email though is about photographs. There's quite an archive on there from both my Primary and Secondary phases that may not be recovered if posters have died or moved on.
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>>Might colour their judgements (and that of Mrs B) at any reunion.
Really wouldn't worry about any reaction to a leg over (that didn't happen) 30 years ago!
( unless of course either of the ladies concerned is fond of boiling bunnies )
;-)
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RIP Friends Reunited - No FM2R
