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Old 01-18-2016, 04:26 PM   #1
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Friends Reunited website to close down

Friends Reunited launched in the year 2000 and was bought by broadcaster ITV for £175m ($250m) in 2005.

Friends Reunited website to close down - BBC News
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Old 01-18-2016, 04:51 PM   #2
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They fucked that site up good.
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Old 01-18-2016, 04:56 PM   #3
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They fucked that site up good.
I remember they started to charge £5. This was when facebook came out and was (still is) free.

To be honest I thought they would keep it free when ITV took it over and just used it as a big data storage and a way to promote ITV.

Even if the site had cost £1 million, that would have been a huge loss.

But £175 million.

Its a different world, to just be able to loose £175 million.
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Old 01-18-2016, 04:59 PM   #4
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I remember they started to charge £5. This was when facebook came out and was (still is) free.

To be honest I thought they would keep it free when ITV took it over and just used it as a big data storage and a way to promote ITV.

Even if the site had cost £1 million, that would have been a huge loss.

But £175 million.

Its a different world, to just be able to loose £175 million.
I lost £175 million the other day. Was really quite upset for a while but then I found it down the side of the sofa.
Sorry, I meant £17.50..
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Old 01-18-2016, 05:10 PM   #5
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never heard of that site
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reminds me of classmates.com or whatever it was called. Great idea but poorly put together.
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Free is the only way to make money real now. All you need is the content the people want to see and sell advertising off the back of it.

The exceptions are industries mainstream won't advertise on. We had porn companies funding the adverts on the sites killing sales.
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reminds me of classmates.com or whatever it was called. Great idea but poorly put together.

I think the site was based on that site.
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They had the right idea, just didn't know how to do a Facebook with it
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