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News & ArtsWednesday, March 17, 2010
Life / Teh Internets When Your Classmates Do Not Care What Happened to You
Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:28 AM
A most dubious award:
Classmates.com has agreed to refund nearly $10 million to users who were told that long-lost school chums were looking at their profiles, only to find, once they’d ponied up a subscription fee, that no one they knew was looking for them at all.The proposed settlement would end a lawsuit filed in November 2008 on behalf of Classmates.com user Anthony Michaels who sued after he spent $15 to upgrade to a Gold Membership at Classmates.com, one of the net’s original social networking sites. But that fee was a ripoff, he said.
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I signed onto Facebook and half my classmates found me within days, including most of my close friends and all the awesome people.
But when I tried Classmates.com, only 3 out of 472 people were on it, and it was the entirety of the 10 year reunion planning committee.
But when I tried Classmates.com, only 3 out of 472 people were on it, and it was the entirety of the 10 year reunion planning committee.
2
Yeah, that's actually one of my COMPLAINTS with Facebook, Baconcat.
Why can't these people just leave me alone?!
Why can't these people just leave me alone?!
3
I hope Classmates.com goes out of business so that my company can expand into the other half of the building we share with them. They have the sweet top floors.
4
@2: I only added back the cool people, smart people and all those people I bullied. It's like being at lunch all over again.
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I guess I'm a cynic. I assumed from the start that Classmates was a ripoff. Duh. Why is this a surprise to anyone?
7
Thankfully they are US-centric, plus I hated everyone I went to school with anyway, so I was never tempted to join.
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@2, just don't add them as friends. I think the people who add every single person who Facebook suggests, even if they haven't talked to them in 10 years, usually have hundreds of friends anyways, so won't remember or won't care if you ignore their invitation.
9
I am in shock that they are still around at all -and around enough to have their name on a new building.
12
Then there are the morons that you have to repeatedly deny, deny, deny, because they can't understand why you don't want to friend them. Yes, we had an interesting conversation about the X-Men while playing .AP.B. at Baileys Comics back in 1989. Doesn't mean I want to be your friend, yo.
13
FB really needs to add a feature to the friend request window. Right now they just have 'Accept' or 'Ignore' ...they really need an 'Instant Block'
Its pretty convoluted to block a person you are getting a friendship request from...you gotta type in their entire name under the block list search box....then you have a hell of a time finding them if they have a common name like Mary Smith.....bah!
Its pretty convoluted to block a person you are getting a friendship request from...you gotta type in their entire name under the block list search box....then you have a hell of a time finding them if they have a common name like Mary Smith.....bah!
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@12 - I'm still upset at that, Rotten666 ...
;-)
No, seriously, it depends on who it is, my high school friends are friends, it's my relatives I have to keep turning down "friend" requests from ...
;-)
No, seriously, it depends on who it is, my high school friends are friends, it's my relatives I have to keep turning down "friend" requests from ...
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Classmates is probably the second-biggest spammer of all time, after the University of Phoenix. Everyone associated with that company should be in prison, not fancy offices.
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@17, I'm with you about Facebook, it's fun for about a month then it just becomes annoying. Too many people use it to avoid face to face communciation which does make it very popular here in passive agressive Seattle.
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My only grip with Facebook is the applications that request some/or all of your information. Plus, I don't care if a friend has just updated their status saying that they need coffee or want to eat a cookie. Just drink your coffee or eat that damn cookie already. I don't need to know about that stuff.
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Buh-buh-buh-but, without Facebook, how will I keep track of what my feeble-minded relatives are harvesting in Farmville?
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god how i wish i could get classmates dot com to stop fucking emailing me. i never, ever should have given into the urge to "see what it was all about" ten fucking years ago.
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My 10-year was in 2002, and Classmates made it a lot easier because people weren't social networking as much back then. I was signed up, and I worked for them as a contractor for a while (I know, I'm sorry!), and after unsubscribing, I haven't ever received another email from them. Could you be unsubscribing incorrectly somehow? The law says companies are required to stop emailing you if you ask.
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possibly. but i unsubscribe from lotsa stuff without any problem, so i don't know why that would be.
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