Thursday, May 22, 2008
Friends Reunited - Completely Missed the Boat
7 or so years ago, everyone was talking about Friends Reunited - at work, on the radio, on the TV. For a website to get that kind of exposure was unheard of, even now. Suddenly there was a way to find out what all your old schoolfriends were doing.
Where is it now? It's still going, but it's been left for dust behind Facebook and MySpace, for two simple reasons - they charged money to send messages to other users, and they didn't make it easy enough to find those other users.
They've finally seen the light and allowed free contact between users, but it's way too late. Everyone has moved onto Facebook, which is far more straightforward, and free. And worth about a trillion times more than Friends Reunited.
Where is it now? It's still going, but it's been left for dust behind Facebook and MySpace, for two simple reasons - they charged money to send messages to other users, and they didn't make it easy enough to find those other users.
They've finally seen the light and allowed free contact between users, but it's way too late. Everyone has moved onto Facebook, which is far more straightforward, and free. And worth about a trillion times more than Friends Reunited.
