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  • DVTimes
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    • Jun 2003
    • 31658
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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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    • clickity click
      So Fecking Bummed
      • Aug 2014
      • 3682
      #2
      They fucked that site up good.

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        • DVTimes
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          • Jun 2003
          • 31658
          #3
          Originally posted by clickity click
          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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            • clickity click
              So Fecking Bummed
              • Aug 2014
              • 3682
              #4
              Originally posted by DVTimes
              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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                • sandman!
                  Icq: 14420613
                  • Mar 2001
                  • 15431
                  #5
                  never heard of that site
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                    • Rochard
                      Jägermeister Test Pilot
                      • Dec 2001
                      • 75733
                      #6
                      reminds me of classmates.com or whatever it was called. Great idea but poorly put together.
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                        • Paul Markham
                          Too old to care
                          • Jun 2001
                          • 52942
                          #7
                          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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                            • DVTimes
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                              • Jun 2003
                              • 31658
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Rochard
                              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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                                • wehateporn
                                  Promoting Debate on GFY
                                  • Apr 2007
                                  • 27176
                                  #9
                                  They had the right idea, just didn't know how to do a Facebook with it

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