Friends Reunited website to close after 15 years
by Hannah Jane Parkinson from Technology | The Guardian on (#112C8)
Though it has been around since Mark Zuckerberg was just 15 years old, one of the original social networking websites is to close
Friends Reunited was a pioneer of social networking when it launched in 2000, but on Monday founder Steve Pankhurst announced its closure.
In an emailed entitled "the sunset of an era", Pankhurst wrote that "the world is now a very different place" and that Friends Reunited is no longer able to compete with Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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