August 6, 2009 by friendsreunitedblog
We’re really excited to let you know that the Friends Reunited websites are to be bought by a company called BrightSolid, who will become our new owners over the coming weeks.
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
The team at Friends Reunited
www.friendsreunited.co.uk/Team
Tags: BrightSolid, Dating, Friends Reunited, Genes Reunited
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July 31, 2009 by friendsreunitedblog
To make it easier for friends to find and contact you, you can now share your profile and photo albums with anyone you like, even if they’re not on Friends Reunited.
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!
The team at Friends Reunited
www.friendsreunited.co.uk/Team
Tags: Friends Reunited, profile, public, Share, username
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July 7, 2009 by friendsreunitedblog
Hi everyone,
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:
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
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
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
The team at Friends Reunited
Tags: charities, Clubs, Friends Reunited, groups, profile, publish, pubs, sports, teams
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June 24, 2009 by friendsreunitedblog
Two sisters who spent 30 years apart have been reunited, after they discovered they were working for the same supermarket chain, just 6 miles away from each other!
Carla discovered her half sister on Friends Reunited, where they first got in contact and began chatting regularly. A month later they decided to meet, and the pair have been inseparable ever since.
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
The team at Friends Reunited
Tags: Long lost, sisters reunited
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June 22, 2009 by friendsreunitedblog
The Australian TV programme 60 Minutes showed some great Friends Reunited success stories from down under on Sunday.
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
Tags: 60 Minutes, Friends Reunited, Love Interrupted
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June 17, 2009 by friendsreunitedblog
We’ve compiled a list of the most popular movies of all time, as voted by Friends Reunited members.
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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Tags: Cinema, Dirty Dancing, Film, friends, groups, Mamma Mia, Movies, reunited, The Green Mile, The Lord of the Rings, The Shawshank Redemption, Top 20 films
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May 29, 2009 by friendsreunitedblog
You may have noticed a few changes to the site over the last couple of days – here’s a quick overview of some of the changes we’ve made:
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 allows you to identify who’s pictured in your photos, and share them with friends. Read more on this great new feature here.
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
Tags: Friends Reunited, groups, message board, messages, newsfeed, photo tagging, Photos, places, posts
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May 29, 2009 by friendsreunitedblog
Photo tagging is a great new feature we’ve just added to Friends Reunited. Tagging simply allows you to label who’s pictured in a photo, just like the image below.
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
Tags: Friends Reunited, Photos, Tag, Tagging
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