Friends Reunited New and improved

For those of you in the UK, you're probably listed on Friends Reunited. You might be interested to know that it's now been updated. It's entirely free, and has a Web 2.0 feel about it. Unfortunately I think it's all a little too late. We've done the thing of contacting friends, finding out if they're doing better or worse than we are, and then the emails tailing off into silence. Or alternatively, getting on like a house on fire with your first crush, leaving your spouse and kids and it all ending tragically. These are really a one trick pony, and I'll give them their due, they've added in work, the road you lived on, armed forces and so on.

I seldom go back there, and I wasn't amazingly impressed with how it's changed. Most upsetting is that they appear to have deleted all the stuff that everyone wrote about their schooldays! This was without a doubt the best bit of the place, and I wept with laughter at some of the stories. [Edited to add: Apparently the memory boards have only disappeared temporarily and they should be coming back soon.}