In case you can’t tell, this is an opinion piece. If you enjoy Classmates.com or other “let’s reconnect after all these years” websites, this entry is not for you.
This entry is for the rest of us—the Classmates haters.
The annoying ad that’s showing up everywhere. Like I’d link to it.
There’s not much to say except that I hate this stupid “service.” You set up a profile on their site, give them your email address, and then if anyone wants to contact you, they leave you a message on their proprietary system, which, if you don’t pay to have a Classmates.com account, you can’t get access to.
This is basically tantamount to someone sending you a letter to a PO box for which you lost the key. The sh-t just gets crammed in there, and in the meantime your former buds think you’re a prick because you never get back to them.
Instead of stupid reunion or high school class websites, I strongly suggest getting a Facebook page for making contact with old friends.
Thank you for indulging this rant.
Oh, and if you’d like to read a no-holds-barred polemic on Classmates.com, check out this entry by Twisted Princess.
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I finally succumbed to the classmates.com siren song and subscribed a few months ago. I found a few old friends that way. I don’t have the impression that any of *them* had to pay to get my messages. I thought you only had to pay to initiate contact. My subscription is about to expire so we’ll see how evilly they treat that, if they threaten to delete the entire profile, pics and records and all. (I’m registered in 5 schools.)
I was a little disappointed in a different way. Most of the people I contacted didn’t seem to want to converse very much. Guess I wasn’t as cool or warm or whatever as I remember. But in full disclosure, many of the names I remember most precisely were of the girls who spurned my meager overtures. They must have thought I was executing a timeout – retry, but really I wanted to platonically reminisce. Unless of course I’m fooling myself, quite possible…