Friends Reunited

[junetta]

I joined this years ago and paid a few subscriptions before it became a little boring.

Thanks to the new ITV advert thingy and now that it´s free I´m getting ´buzzes´ from folks I knew years ago.

Anyone else getting the same?

[blazey]

Friends Reunited is funny. It must be costing them so much to get that thing running after it swapped hands.

I'll stick to facebook

[junetta]

I´ve wondered about Facebook but have this idea that it is for the youngsters and can´t quite get around to joining it.

[blazey]

Originally Posted by junetta

I´ve wondered about Facebook but have this idea that it is for the youngsters and can´t quite get around to joining it.

You're only as old as you feel! There are a lot of accywebbers on it of all ages, and my mother too. Some of my tutors at uni are on it also. It is very popular!

[cashman]

got in touch wi a guy aint seen since i left school wi friends never paid em owt. lol

[jaysay]

I've been a member for years, but have never used it much, yet over the last fw weeks Ive ben getting EMails saying that others have joined in my group, must be because its free now

[MargaretR]

When it first started up I was contacted by a lad (well he was then) who had taken me to the Palladium a couple of times in the 50s.

We exchanged photos -I said he looked like Brian Blessed and I said 'I favour Thora Hird dont I?'

He never wrote again - must be something I said

[mani]

friends reunited could've been on the facebook popularity level if they hadnt done the whole subscription thing - ppl would've used it willingly like they do with facebook.

[blazey]

Originally Posted by mani

friends reunited could've been on the facebook popularity level if they hadnt done the whole subscription thing - ppl would've used it willingly like they do with facebook.

That is the funny thing, friends reunited switched hands just before facebook was launched, and they would've had no idea that something as massively successful and free to use like facebook was about to be launched.

[mani]

hmmmm definatly.

but essentially facebook took the concept of friends reunited and moved it 10 steps forward. where as facebook networks by area u live in FR did it by the schools

[garinda]

It certainly seems to have got more lively since it became free.

I'm happily in touch with a girl from art school, who I'd lost touch with over twenty years ago.

I was also contacted by my old school, and asked to give a talk to the sixth formers at Q.E.G.S. about my career in fashion, and am now invited back for anything arty farty they are doing.

[ANNE]

I have been in touch with a few old school friends on friends reunited, but I prepare facebook.

[Lilly]

Originally Posted by mani

hmmmm definatly.

but essentially facebook took the concept of friends reunited and moved it 10 steps forward. where as facebook networks by area u live in FR did it by the schools

You're right. Friends reunited is so old fashioned compared to facebook.

I've had a fabulous time getting back in touch with old school friends and colleagues on facebook this weekend....you can chat to folk live on there, you don't have to wait for messages.

[jaysay]

I've enough on here without facebook,

[Mancie]

love the new schools reunited.. no one wants to contact me .. and thats the way I like it bruv..... I Will contact dudes when I get around to it!