Originally Posted by DVTimes

I remember they started to charge £5. This was when facebook came out and was (still is) free.

To be honest I thought they would keep it free when ITV took it over and just used it as a big data storage and a way to promote ITV.

Even if the site had cost £1 million, that would have been a huge loss.

But £175 million.

Its a different world, to just be able to loose £175 million.