[originaltext] Friends Reunited—one of the UK’s first social networks—has ann

Friends Reunited—one of the UK’s first social networks—has announced it will soon close. One of its founders Steve Pankhurst explained in an email that the platform was still used by "a handful of members" but that it was "no longer used for the purpose it was built for".
   Friends Reunited launched in the year 2000 and was bought by broadcaster ITV for ￡175m in 2005. However, it failed to keep pace with other social networks. It was sold to comic publisher DC Thomson for only ￡25m in 2009 and Mr Pankhurst wrote in a blog post that the company had offered it back to him a couple of years ago. Pankhurst and business partner Jason Porter agreed to take on the site for a trial period to see if they could refresh it. "It became clear that most of the actual users coming to the site were using it purely as a message board," wrote Mr. Pankhurst.
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