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So the site that was once so very popular is to close. I remember liking it long before Facebook came along.
 
Maybe it will sit in a rocking chair next to My Space and reminisce. :D
 
And Twitter soon as well, unless it finds a way to actually make some money.
 
dejongj said:
And Twitter soon as well, unless it finds a way to actually make some money.
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Oh God! I'm gonna start a campaign ( just in case) to save our face book, other wise peoples breakfast, lunch, dinner, bar consumptions images et al will end up all over TP :(
 
Awww, I do feel a bit sad about this as it was my port of call when I first got into the interweb in the early 2000's. I looked up old school chums on that - and then remember why I couldn't stand them in the first place!
Friendsrunited was once the king of social networking but it goes without saying that it didn't take very long for the likes of Facebook and t***ter (no, it isn't a mispelling) to take the crown.
 
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I tried it right in the beginning, even paying for my first years membership in order to contact other people I'd been to school with. The one person to get in contact back had been a bully and general toe-rag at school, and wanted to be called Vince instead of John. We'd had nothing in common at school, and curiously that hadn't changed in later life.
 
Shame - must admit I've not used it for years and years now so not that surprising especially with the modern social websites.
 
Cobra said:
Oh God! I'm gonna start a campaign ( just in case) to save our face book, other wise peoples breakfast, lunch, dinner, bar consumptions images et al will end up all over TP :(
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Lol great times ahead for oof :)

Ps. Here is a picture of my lunch :)

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Looks more like satay to me....yum! :)


...and fritesaus too....
 
Founders sold it in 2005 for £175 million according to BBC, pretty good timing
 
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Oh well...... no loss there.

Stuck my nose into FR and out of the 27 others in my 'form' of 28, all but 2 were busy getting in touch and talking about the 'good old days'. I later found out that the 2 nissing classmates had died. One from heroin and the other on his motor bike.

Within 2 months, I hung up the 'gone fishing' sign and have never been back.

I was early into Facebook and same thing there. I lasted about 2 months and saw the writing on the wall as far as I was concerned. So whilst I still have the account, I genuinely have no use of or from it.

Apparently, according to friends and acquaintances, I don't know what I am missing. So very true, I don't.........
 
It was interesting at first, looking up on the people I used to go to school with, checking out the girls I used to have a crush on, they weren't as pretty as I seem to remember :) To be honest i'm surprised it lasted so long
 
Tough luck if they wanted to be a 'closed' social network. I'm surprised that they were still going. Many other, bigger ones have fallen before them.

Closed social networks don't cross-communicate, so they are bound to encourage a single dominant player. Anyone who joined Facebook contributed to the downfall of the other closed social networks. Sure, I understand why they want to prevent cross communication with other networks. Which is for profit, and not for the users benefit. So I don't care if yet another one folds.
 
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I've been to the BANNED website a couple of times over the years and there is nothing to see of you aren't registered. So you can't give it a look over. I'm not going to sign up to something blindly. I can't be bothered if they can't.
 
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ianp5a said:
I've been to the BANNED website a couple of times over the years and there is nothing to see of you aren't registered. So you can't give it a look over. I'm not going to sign up to something blindly. I can't be bothered if they can't.
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???? I dont think you are bothered enough. Most of it is available publicly.
 
Twitter is a fantastic tool for searching for things that are happening live. You just need to use a decent app such as Hootsuite where you can follow search terms and groups of streams. I very rarely tweet but I do use it a lot to follow live scores and things happening. I hope they find a way to make money out of it
 
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Do I have to guess a url then? There seems to be no way to browse.
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There may very literally be no convenient way to browse with a conventional browser, for a guess.

There was a social network I used to be part of that, even when first logged in, no content was visible - the only way to see what was happening was to join a stream.
 
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I dont think you are bothered enough. Most of it is available publicly.
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The only thing I ever followed, and that must have been a couple of years ago, was the Essex(?) escaped Lion.
He went on a rampage and was eating pets stealing washing, frightening the old lady at no 9 etc.
Best laugh I'd had in ages, they shut him down, I've not been back since.
 
Not if they don't allow browsing.

And do you think that page you linked to is in some way attractive?
 
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Oh. Dear. Browsing and search are very different activities. And web browsers don't actually browse. They show you one item at a time.

And what you are showing with your links is called "stabbing in the dark" .

When people want to search for something, they will search without including the word twitter in the search string.
 
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Oh. Dear. Browsing and search are very different activities. And web browsers don't actually browse. They show you one item at a time.

And what you are showing with your links is called "stabbing in the dark" .

When people want to search for something, they will search without including the word twitter in the search string.
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You really aren't fuzzed are you :god:
 
Well you seem to be doing a good job of putting me off of it.
 
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Well you two have done me a huge favour, I just logged in to twitter, to see what I was missing,
see you in another 2 years twitter :thumbs:
 
They don't call it t***ter for nothing lol
 
Anyway back to Friends Reunited

When I joined for the most part I got spammed constantly, from one woman who I didn't even remember, asking me to various reunions etc.

The good thing to come from signing up is that it eventually put me back in touch with a very good friend from school and his sister and we are still in constant contact to this day
 
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