Ben and Natalie were high school sweethearts from Bendigo, Victoria. They were separated when Ben’s family moved away to Colac but reunited, 10 years later, after getting back in touch on Friends Reunited.

If you’ve had a special experience using the site that you’d like to share, email press@friendsreunited.com

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Organising a reunion is now really quick and simple – but what’s more – it’s now completely free!

To try the new Reunion Organiser, visit your school here and click on the reunion tab.

Improvements to the new Reunion Organiser include:

• A new member list, listing who‘s invited and who‘s attending

• An “organiser update” feature, allowing the event organiser to update invitees if plans change

• A devoted message board, where you can chat to your old friends and discuss the upcoming event

Visit your school to get started >>

Good luck setting up a reunion of your own!



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They’re a really enthusiastic and talented bunch of guys and we’re looking forward to working with them to continue to bring you ongoing improvements and additions to the Friends Reunited, Genes Reunited and Friends Reunited Dating websites.

If you’re a fan of business news you can read the press release here


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Create your own unique place on the web by choosing a Friends Reunited username, which will form part of your own web page address.

Once created, your page will become public, meaning you can easily share your page with friends, family and co-workers, even if they’re not a member of the site.  People you invite can then bookmark your page and use it as the single place on the web to keep in touch and stay up-to-date with your life.

Remember, you can easily control what people can and can’t see on your page in Privacy Settings

If you want to find out more, take a look at the FAQs page here

You can chose any username you like on a first-come, first-served basis (chose wisely, once created it can’t be changed), so make sure you get yours now!


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We’ve just added a few more improvements to Friends Reunited, to try and make the site more useful and easier to use.

Here’s a summary of what we’ve done:

• Groups

The “Find a group” page has made been improved to make it much easier and more fun to find a group that you love. With categories like Recommended, Recently Created and Most Popular, you’re bound to find something that takes your fancy.

Try it here

• Member lists

We’ve improved the member lists in your places to make it easier to browse and find friends. This includes showing when people have updated their profile and are online now. We’ve also improved the search bar, so you can find old classmates quicker and more easily.

Visit My Places

• Teams and Clubs

We’ve split teams and clubs into 3 new sections to make it more specific and easier to browse. The new categories are below:

Sport and Activities – Find old friends from sport and activities

Pubs – Find old friends from pubs

Clubs, Associations and Charities – Incl. Round Table, Young Farmers, Rotary and more


Hope you enjoy the improvements

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Read the full article in here >>

If you’ve had a special experience using the site that you’d like to share, email press@friendsreunited.co.uk

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The show interviewed a number of couples who had attempted to rekindle their high school love affairs. Kirk and Samantha, for example, got back together after 11 years apart and the high school sweethearts are now happily married with 7 children!

Watch the full video here >>

If you’ve had a special experience using the site that you’d like to share, email press@friendsreunited.co.uk

Good luck finding friends from your past!

The team at Friends Reunited

Using the films members have added to their profile, we can officially unveil our members’ favourite films – here’s a glimpse at the top 5:

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Dirty Dancing
3. The Green Mile
4. The Lord of the Rings
5. Mamma Mia

You can see a full list of the top 20 movies here >>

Don’t forget you can debate, discuss and vote for your favourite films in the Film & Cinema Groups.

See you on the site soon,

The team at Friends Reunited

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• Newsfeed

We’ve amended the newsfeed so that it now shows you more of what’s happening on your Friends Reunited; including your comments, newsflashes and photos. You can control exactly what other people see easily using your Privacy Settings.

• Photo Tagging

Photo Tagging allows you to identify who’s pictured in your photos, and share them with friends. Read more on this great new feature here.

• Your Places and Groups

To make it easier to find your schools, teams or workplaces, you can now go directly to a full list of those you’ve joined, simply by clicking the Places tab. We’ve done the same for your Groups, so just click on the Groups tab and you’ll go straight to a directory of the groups you’ve joined. Why not bookmark these pages to make it even easier to find and get back to quickly?

• Edit your message board posts

We know how frustrating it is to write a long message only to notice you’ve made a spelling mistake. So with this in mind, you can now edit a post that you’ve written by clicking the “edit” link below your message.

Hope you enjoy the updates!

The team at Friends Reunited

Tagging your friends and family in photos is also a great way to share your snaps.  Once you have tagged someone, they’ll be sent a link to view the photo.

You can tag anyone you like, whether they have a Friends Reunited account or not – if they don’t, just enter their email address and they’ll be send an invitation to view the photo.

To start tagging, visit your photos here, and either click on the photo or click “Add a tag” in the bar beneath a photo. You can then draw a box over people’s faces to identify them.

There’s plenty more detail on photo tagging at our FAQs section >>

We hope you enjoy this great new feature,

The team at Friends Reunited

Read the article here >>

Why not search for someone you’ve lost touch with on Friends Reunited with today?

The team at Friends Reunited

The gadget gives you a quick and easy way to check your Friends Reunited updates and notifications, with access to search for friends, visit your places and see your photos – all from one easy gadget on your iGoogle homepage.

To add this great new gadget to your iGoogle homepage, click here >>

Don’t have an iGoogle account? Sign up for free here >>

We’re always trying to find ways to make Friends Reunited easy and more fun to use – so we hope you find this new feature useful! Feel free to comment below and let us know what you think.

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We really love this unique new feature, and thanks to all of your help it’s become really popular with our members.

The most popular events have been related to children or holidays, with timeline proving to be a great place to shout about your new baby or share photos of a holiday with friends.

If you’ve not yet tried timeline – why not give it a go? Timeline allows you to record the big moments in your life, like buying a new house or your son’s graduation. You can then add photos, comments and invite your friends to come and celebrate the event with you. You can also use it to plan ahead, so add your summer holiday or even your next BBQ and send an invitation to your pals.

Visit your Timeline here to get started >>

We hope you continue to enjoy Timeline

The team at Friends Reunited

Irene & Colin met in Bristol, 1986 at the age of just 17. After calling off their initial wedding, Irene spent the next 12 years regretting her decision. Irene later contacted Colin on Friends Reunited, and they picked up where they left off. They married shortly after, just 18 years after Colin’s first proposal!

Gwyn & Roxanne became the first Scottish couple to marry having reunited using the Friend Reunited website. They first got together at school in 1982, but years later, Roxanne contacted Gwyn on the site and the couple quickly rekindled their lost love.

Lindsey & Bryan dated as teenagers, but never took their relationship any further. When Bryan’s marriage broke down, he searched for his old girlfriend via Friends Reunited and the two became friends again. When Lindsey’s marriage broke down, Bryan swooped and the couple have been inseparable ever since.

To read the full story visit the Scottish Sun online here >>

You can see more great Friends Reunited success stories like this here

If you’ve had a special experience using the site that you’d like to share, email press@friendsreunited.co.uk.

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To do this, we’ve created a really simple map tool that you can use to add your schools. Just click on the “Go to maps” button (shown below) on your school’s homepage.

Go to your old school to get started >>

If you can’t see the “Go to maps” button on your school’s page, don’ worry – it just means your old school mates have already helped us locate it.

Thanks for helping us improve the site,

The team at Friends Reunited

We’ve partnered with Dorling Kindersley to bring you exclusive content from their DK Eyewitness Top 10 series.

Alongside the groups our members have created, there are now 20 specially created groups, dedicated to helping you get inspiration and information on 20 of the world’s most popular cities and areas. Each group has a range of useful information, so you can discover the highlights; including the top 10 events, restaurants, hotels, museums and historic buildings.

Visit the travel groups here >>

As usual, you’ll find a message board section to share advice, experiences and chat to other travellers, alongside an area to share your photos and special memories with others.

Here are a few of our favourite Travel Groups:

Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Costa Blanca, New York

Go explore!

The team at Friends Reunited

To start chatting, visit any of our groups where you can join an existing chat, or start your own. Up to 20 people can chat in the same group at once.

Check out the gray bar at the bottom of your Friends Reunited page, and start chatting now!

Don’t forget, if you can’t find a group you’re interested in, create your own and invite your friends to join in.

To find out more, visit our FAQ’s here

We hope you enjoy this great new feature,

The team at Friends Reunited

Please note: Chat is unavailable to members using Internet Explorer 6. To use chat, upgrade your browser here

Chat allows you to hold conversations with members of a group, using an “Instant messenger”. You can join up to 5 chats at one time, each allowing up to 20 people to talk at once.

The chat bar should be visible at the bottom of your screen. You can start chatting by any of three ways:

• Chats taking place – Join a chat going on at one of your groups
• All chats taking place – Accessible via “Chats taking place”, showing all available chats
• Press the “Join chat” button when in a group you’re a member of.

If chat isn’t for you, you can hide the chat bar by pressing “hide”,

We appreciate you feedback during our testing phase. Please feel free to add comments on this post..

The team at Friends Reunited

To find out more, visit our FAQ’s here

We’ve just made some change to help improve Friends Reunited for our members.

The first thing you’ll notice is changes to your homepage. We’ve tried to make it easier to stay in touch with your friends by simplifying the layout, making your newsflash bigger and your friend’s activity more visible.

Your profile is now easier to use and complete, so make sure you keep your friends up-to-date with your life and get your profile to 100%!

We’ve also reintroduced the option to browse for schools, workplaces, teams or armed services. You can still search by country, region and county to find a place that you’ve spent time at but it’s now easier to find similar places in the local area.

We hope you enjoy the changes, check back for more updates soon. If you’ve got any comments, please add them to this post.

The team at Friends Reunited

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To send a buzz, just visit someone’s profile and select “leave buzz”.

Happy Valentine’s Day from the team at Friends Reunited.

P.S: Stuck for a date? It’s not too late! Check out our sister site Friends Reunited Dating

Recently, we were sent a great story from Kevin and Mike, two former Welsh Guardsmen who had reunited as friends after 30 years apart.

We caught up with the pair at the Welsh Guards’ annual reunion and made a short video about their story.

If you’ve had a special experience using the site, or want to

share your very own Friends Reunited success story, please get in touch at press@friendsreunited.co.uk – we’d love to hear them!

Hello and welcome to a brand new chapter for Friends Reunited.

If you’ve got this far you’ve probably noticed things feel a bit different. That’s because we’ve added a new, more sociable dimension to the website. So rather than just a school reunion, also think of us as a visit to your local, where everyone you’ve ever wanted to stay in touch with is sitting around the one table.

If you’re like us, you probably don’t see your friends and family as much as you’d like to. Now you no longer need to feel like you’re out of touch with what’s happening in their life. It’s like sending a text or having daily phone chats but easier. Have a look around a bit and you’ll see what we mean.

Before you shoot off we’d recommend you do 3 quick things. They take no time at all and will really start bringing the site to life for you:

1. Start putting stuff on your profile page

2. Add at least one photo

3. Start inviting friends to your Friends list

Finally, we’d like to thank you for your support! Now dive in and explore…

The Friends Reunited Team

P.S. There are lots of new bits and everything should be running smoothly. But as you’re one of the first people to visit, you could well discover there are a few gremlins. We’ll be ironing these out over the next few days, but thanks in advance for your patience and understanding.

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