Friends Reunited

[jonsie]

I have to say that I see to use this but haven't done for many years but sad to see it go....

Friends Reunited website to close down

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35343091

[Bambino]

Yes, sad. A forerunner to Facebook, that just got swallowed up. There's a similar site in the US called Classmates.com which is still going, but I'm sure is struggling and will go the same way as Friends Reunited.

[Cleoriff]

I subscribed to that in it's early days but then it became far easier to track people down (if I wanted to) via FB. Not used it for years...

[Curr946]

I don't have any friends, none that id want to reunite with anyway.

[sheepdog]

It was entertaining at the time though the reality was that it was a moment in time that didn't exist before on the web. Basically it was the novelty factor of nostalgia but like all nostalgia, its not worth revisiting too often and enjoyed at the right time. One site for the internet archives that will be mistakenly have its demise put down to Facebook (which is more about relationship mining but thats another path of the internet evolution).

[Anonymous]

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@jonsie wrote:

I have to say that I see to use this but haven't done for many years but sad to see it go....

Friends Reunited website to close down

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35343091

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Id forgotten that it still existed

[Anonymous]

Our last school re-union was organised through Friends Reunited ... lots of photos of us on there & of classes past ... out of 120+ in 1st form, & after several re-unions, last one when we were 50/51 ish, there were only 30 or so of us turned up ... can't honestly think we will meet up again ... but have found more school friends on Facebook & I enjoy keeping in touch with 'our year' there 

[Cleoriff]

We did a similar thing with Nurses Re-United. Not a website then......but via a group of us who thought it would be a good idea to reunite nurses who had trained within a 6 year framework of time. I loved it.

Always known as a 'rebel' ....always being called up to Matrons office ...and the one who was at the forefront of trouble in the school of nursing.....oh and certainly the one who was told off for the shortness of her uniform and her dyed blonde hair...

To walk into that venue of nurses,(including Matron and Deputy matrons)... knowing this rebel was now a Ward Sister and watching the disbelief on their faces......gave me a great deal of satisfaction...

[Anonymous]

Oh @Cleoriff you have put a smile on my face ... & ... got me chuckling at your post above  ^  ^  ^  

for you walking into the room as Ward Sister 

[Cleoriff]

In fairness Jane...these authority figures never seemed so frightening when we met up years later...They were usually retired whilst our crowd were on the way up in the profession. I often wondered why they scared the living daylights out of me back in the day....