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Friends Reunited to close
« on: January 18, 2016, 05:57:33 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35343091

Did/does anyone here belong to this site?
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2016, 05:58:52 PM »
Quote from: Hope on January 18, 2016, 05:57:33 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35343091

Did/does anyone here belong to this site?

Yes I did and I actually got reunited with a friend because of it.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2016, 06:06:52 PM »
Married someone I remet
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2016, 06:07:55 PM »
I did, years ago, but that was well before the ascendancy of Facebook which has contributed to its demise.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2016, 07:26:05 PM »
I didn't realise it was still in existence.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2016, 07:28:21 PM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on January 18, 2016, 07:26:05 PM
I didn't realise it was still in existence.
Not for long!
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2016, 08:13:01 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on January 18, 2016, 05:58:52 PM
Yes I did and I actually got reunited with a fried because of it.

Lovely  :D

I joined and found it a bit scary!  Obviously Facebook has taken over (that scares me too!).  Forums are a lot quieter nowadays because of the popularity of F/B, something I don't get because, from what I've seen, no-one seems to have in-depth conversations on there.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2016, 09:53:21 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on January 18, 2016, 05:58:52 PM
Yes I did and I actually got reunited with a fried because of it.

A "fried"?
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2016, 10:17:02 PM »
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I joined and found it a bit scary!  Obviously Facebook has taken over (that scares me too!).  Forums are a lot quieter nowadays because of the popularity of F/B, something I don't get because, from what I've seen, no-one seems to have in-depth conversations on there.

Ah! the penny has dropped :o I to dislike facebook, to crowded, to messy, I await the day it implodes, collapses in on itself.

Dear Mods,

The true enemy has shown its face, Facebook, maybe we should all join Facebook and undermine it from within ( there is no smiley for, rubs hands gleefully like a master criminal )

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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2016, 11:52:55 PM »
Quote from: Brownie on January 18, 2016, 08:13:01 PM
Lovely  :D

I joined and found it a bit scary!  Obviously Facebook has taken over (that scares me too!).  Forums are a lot quieter nowadays because of the popularity of F/B, something I don't get because, from what I've seen, no-one seems to have in-depth conversations on there.

While I am not a fan of FaceBook I think its negative influence on discussion forums is not in the matter of discussion content but in the amount of time it takes to plough through the acres of inconsequential crap searching for the scraps of interest that leaves no time for participation in/on the discussion forums.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2016, 05:25:13 AM »
Quote from: Owlswing on January 18, 2016, 11:52:55 PM
While I am not a fan of FaceBook I think its negative influence on discussion forums is not in the matter of discussion content but in the amount of time it takes to plough through the acres of inconsequential crap searching for the scraps of interest that leaves no time for participation in/on the discussion forums.

I am a fan, I don't use it for discussion, I use it to keep in touch with friends and events. On that level it works.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2016, 07:08:50 AM »
One of my brothers friends used this site, he found that all sorts of people were contacting him whom he was happy to have forgotten about.

I do have a Facebook account, I posted a photograph I had taken of an egg with two yolks, I thought that it would make a change from photos of people standing around holding glasses.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2016, 08:31:43 AM »
Quote from: Hope on January 18, 2016, 05:57:33 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35343091

Did/does anyone here belong to this site?

Yes I do, not that I look at it very often. That is a shame, it was interesting to look at the entry for the school I attended.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2016, 09:02:55 AM »
If a sizeable number of the people that I went to school with were ever on there it means their apllications for parole wre successful.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2016, 09:18:06 AM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on January 19, 2016, 09:02:55 AM
If a sizeable number of the people that I went to school with were ever on there it means their apllications for parole wre successful.
I went to school with a murderer but I think he's still inside  :o
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2016, 09:47:36 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on January 19, 2016, 05:25:13 AM
I am a fan, I don't use it for discussion, I use it to keep in touch with friends and events. On that level it works.

Couldn't agree more - it has proved wonderful for staying in touch with/seeing what's happening with our family in Australia. Especially as we have now got our beautiful great niece there - incidentally is it an age thing, I seem to have got increasingly soppy over cute pictures of said great niece. ;D :o
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #16 on: January 19, 2016, 10:00:48 AM »
Quote from: Shaker on January 19, 2016, 09:18:06 AM
I went to school with a murderer but I think he's still inside  :o

I went to school with a poisonous little tattle-tale and right little stirrer named Reg Dwight - he is not inside! Dammit!
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #17 on: January 19, 2016, 11:29:00 AM »
That's "a little bit funny" Owl!

I can see the point of F/B for keeping in touch with people.  I don't particularly want to keep in touch with anyone  that I do not already keep in touch with   :D.  I joined because I wanted to re-acquaint with someone I was very good friends with at one time and found her eldest daughter, which was nice.  So I got all the news and gave mine.  Then I received umpteen emails saying, "A friend of ..... wants to be friends with you" - every day!  It freaked me so I deactivated my F/B account.  It had served its purpose.  Husband and offspring use it, not that much but they quite like it.

Friends Reunited gave me access to old school friends which was quite interesting, then a chap I had known years before sent me a whole load of inappropriate messages so I stopped using that.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2016, 11:38:39 AM »
Quote from: Owlswing on January 19, 2016, 10:00:48 AM
I went to school with a poisonous little tattle-tale and right little stirrer named Reg Dwight - he is not inside! Dammit!

Do you mean Elton John? If so he was in the same year as my husband at his school in Middlesex.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2016, 12:16:42 PM »
Quote from: Floo on January 19, 2016, 11:38:39 AM
Do you mean Elton John? If so he was in the same year as my husband at his school in Middlesex.

Respek to Floo for using the proper county name & not bluddy "London".  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2016, 12:19:59 PM »
Quote from: Humph Warden Bennett on January 19, 2016, 12:16:42 PM
Respek to Floo for using the proper county name & not bluddy "London".  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I have always thought of where my husband was born and grew up as in the county of Middlesex.

It would be fascinating if Owlswing was at the same school as my husband in the 60s. :)
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2016, 01:00:12 PM »
Quote from: Floo on January 19, 2016, 11:38:39 AM
Do you mean Elton John? If so he was in the same year as my husband at his school in Middlesex.

Pinner County Grammer School c1959 to c1961
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2016, 01:05:09 PM »
Quote from: Humph Warden Bennett on January 19, 2016, 12:16:42 PM
Respek to Floo for using the proper county name & not bluddy "London".  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I was never a fan of Russell Grant - don't really like astrologers much (it is hard to accept that one twelfth of the world's population is going to experience exactly the things just becasue they were born under the same sign) - but I was happy to see that he was one of those public figures who tried to fight against the use of the name of the London Borough of Hillingdon.
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2016, 01:32:26 PM »
Quote from: Gonnagle on January 18, 2016, 10:17:02 PM
Dear Brownie,

Ah! the penny has dropped :o I to dislike facebook, to crowded, to messy, I await the day it implodes, collapses in on itself.

Dear Mods,

The true enemy has shown its face, Facebook, maybe we should all join Facebook and undermine it from within ( there is no smiley for, rubs hands gleefully like a master criminal )

Gonnagle.

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Will that one do?

Or perhaps 😈👹
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Re: Friends Reunited to close
« Reply #24 on: January 19, 2016, 01:37:08 PM »
I am sort of baffled by peopke's reaction to Facebook. It's only as crowded as I want it to be.
 It has people who are my friends in it, and a couple of bands I like so I can find out about gigs. It filed a completely different purpose for me than this place.
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