RIP Friends Reunited – but what else is lurking in the social media graveyard?
Once worth 175m, the networking site has now closed. But what became of MySpace? When did we say goodbye to Ello? Not to mention Menshn "
As with the fate of so many social networks, news of Friends Reunited's closure was greeted with surprise that it had been continuing at all. Since its peak in 2005, when it was sold to ITV for 175m, the site's key demographic - old people who wanted to snoop on the loves of their teenage years - had been in steady decline, cannibalised by Facebook stalking, LinkedIn lurking and a quick Google Image search.
Like many of those teenage relationships, our online socialising platforms can make us think they are for ever. One day, we look back and wonder when or why it ended. So here's a roundup of the flings and LTRs of our digital lives from the last decade or so, for a quick update on what they're up to, whether they've gone bald yet, and if, just maybe, they still hold a candle for us "
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