Anybody made contact with or met up with friends from the past via Friends Reunited website? There was talk not long after it started of it breaking peoples marriages up as members rekindled old love affairs.

I have made contact with a handful of old friends who I had lost touch with and have met up with one of them. My hubby didn't mind as he knew my friend also.

I couln't contact anybody if I wanted to now as I haven't renewd my subscription.

Is this site a good idea or should we let bygones be bygones, after all we keep in touch with the people who we really want to don't we?:)

I think the website is a good idea. It's interesting if people you remember have filled in the notes section and you can see what they are up to now. Having said that I have kept in contact with my friends that I wanted to so I didn't need to get in contact via the website.

Although it doesn't surprise me if some people get in contact via the website and re-kindle old relationships!

i filled in a totally spurious entry about now living in arbroath and getting blinded on remaindered aftershave, which I buy with money I have made from selling trinkets made from Tennant's Stupor cans.

much hilarity to be had

Originally posted by Mo
...after all we keep in touch with the people who we really want to don't we?:)

Well, we try... but then for one reason or another they move / lose their mobile phones (and have no record of your number), etc...

OK - sometimes they're good excuses, but at the end of the day the website lets you chose who you do and don't get back in touch with.

I've got back in touch with a good few (maybe 10-20) friends who I went to school / college with - some I emailed as a one off, a couple of others I email regularly now and have met up with again...

It's all good IMO :D

I went to private schools - so FR was a great way of telling them they were all tossers.

...I wish I'd thought up the idea...I'd be sitting in a massive house now somewhere in Fullwood with 5 blokes :o

Believe it or not, I actually got in touch with my Brother through the site. We fell out about 4 years ago (Family stuff) and he had moved.

Cost me a Fiver!!!

I have made contact witha few friends through there - it was funny to see what everyone was up to. The general show off had his name as 'Dr'...... then there were two girls who obviously hadn't done much and chose their notes to slogg of everyone else there.

Moon maiden

Originally posted by mikey
Believe it or not, I actually got in touch with my Brother through the site. We fell out about 4 years ago (Family stuff) and he had moved.

Cost me a Fiver!!!
That's pretty good value.

Yeah I keep reminding him he owes me a fiver.

A remarkable and brilliant site and one of the better uses of the Web

did you see the taliban reunited web site that someone put up on the web around the time of the invasion of afghanistan?

funny.

hope you get your fiver back!(lol)

2 old friends made contact with me recently from that site.
1 was an ex next door neighbour and the other was an ex GF.

I think FR is a great site and I wish I had come up with the idea long ago!

Bet they're worth a mint now the ones that created it!

Trouble is the schoolchums on the site are the ones you spent
all your schooltime avoiding.
Now whatever became of that gorgeous girl .....

My best mate of about 13 years before we lost touch 4 or 5 years ago just found me on friendsreunited :D

Great website, have got in touch with a few old friends whom I'd lost contact with because my parents moved away after i finished school and went to uni and my old home and number no longer existed.
Also had a few contact me and well had a couple of shocks, one of my friends is no longer a man but now a woman, and I have met up with her, the other friend who contacted me went on to become the editor of penthouse magazine and director of porn films!!!
I also recently contacted my first love and it has been very strange I have to say in a really good way. Feelings still exist and its been ten years! Hoping to meet up soon and find out whats happened in the last 10 years.

Has anyone seen FriendsReunited (http://www.FriendsReunited.co.uk) recently?

It's had a major overhaul! About time too! :thumbsup:

I know Tony. I've still not found my way around it.

I will miss that piccy that was in the top left hand corner-the woman who was a dead ringer for Mavis Riley.

Apparantly many recruitment agencies now check out F.R. to see if it exposes any dark secrets about a potential employee....so if you're looking for a job and have divulged your love for donkey porn on F.R. you'd better change your entry quick :)

You have to pay the fee now to read about the person. I think the novelty has worn off now. Been there, done that.....

Originally posted by Classic Rock
You have to pay the fee now to read about the person. I think the novelty has worn off now. Been there, done that.....
Wow... what a con! That site is a typical example of a good idea gone bad. If only people were less greedy... :(

Originally posted by Classic Rock
You have to pay the fee now to read about the person. I think the novelty has worn off now. Been there, done that.....

No you don't.

You just need to be registered and thats free......just like this site.