Friends Reunited - FAQs

We have removed the single greatest barrier to increased communication between our members.

As many as 87 per cent of messages on the old Friends Reunited were never sent because of the cost of membership and we thought that was a great shame, so we have dropped the fee to encourage greater interaction between members but still with the same level of privacy that they enjoyed before.
Please be assured that, unlike other social networks, we will still never reveal you personal email address.

In April this year Friends Reunited relaunched as a free service in an attempt to take some of the market lost to sites such as Facebook.

If, like me you joined this site, paid the subscription and used if for a year you probably gave up when the fees rose to £7.50.

Now, it’s free but, sadly, the interface is even more littered with adverts and slow to load. At a time when Facebook is about to serve it’s first re-design Friends Reunited is a cluttered interface which takes ages to load and is virtually impossible to use.

Looking around it today was rather like being in a museum. A lot of interesting things there, some great pictures from my old Sixth Form but absolutely no one using it.

A search for recently updated profiles returns the message, “Sorry, there are no results for that search”, but why do I need to search ? Why can’t I just have a page with that data on it like Facebook does ? Why does every profile need to have a space for a photo that’s the size of a small paperback book ? Why doesn’t friend find search your places which is where they would be in the first place ?

Friends Reunited used to be a great, slick, fast interface. Now it looks more dated that the pictures of my Sixth Form friends back in the 80s …