Classmates.com Epic Fail

[minicivan]

Its comical to keep getting e-mails from them about discounts on gold memberships which allow you to actually connect and communicate with people you went to school with IF YOU PAY A MONTHLY FEE.

Seriously... have these idiots even heard of facebook?
(btw.. i've been in their offices, its like a massive playground for 10 year olds)

[botfurom]

Its comical to keep getting e-mails from them about discounts on gold memberships which allow you to actually connect and communicate with people you went to school with IF YOU PAY A MONTHLY FEE.

Seriously... have these idiots even heard of facebook?
(btw.. i've been in their offices, its like a massive playground for 10 year olds)

Haha I am not familiar with them but in the way you describe them its very funny. There is a lot of networking sites right now so why you need to pay monthly fee lols.

[signupdamnit]

I think they were around before Facebook became popular though? Other than that I guess it's another sort of idiot tax.

[tranza]

How much is the monthly fee?????

[DateDoc]

They were around before myspace too. Back them ppl may have joined. Now there is no need.

[Agent 488]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classmates.com

Classmates Media Corporation's business model is based on user-generated content and revenue from paid subscriptions and advertising sales.[5] As of June 30, 2008, Classmates Media had more than 50 million members, but only 3.8 million pay subscribers.[6]
Classmates Media pay accounts grew 41 percent in Q2 2008, June 30, 2008 versus June 30, 2007, and increased a net 288,000 during Q2 2008 to more than 3.8 million pay accounts.[7] In Q1 2008 net growth of paid accounts was a record 322,000.[8]
Classmates Media revenues for Q2 of 2008 were $57.0 million, an increase of 19% compared to the year ago quarter.[9] In Q1 of 2008, Classmates Media revenues grew 22% to $51.9 million, compared to the year ago quarter.[6]
The Online Publishers Association Paid Content U.S. Market Spending Report, Classmates.com was Number 4 among the Top 25 Web Destinations Ranked by Consumer Content Revenue in both 2002 and 2003[10] (the last years that individual site rankings were broken out).
Under increasing competitive pressure from Facebook, United Online is repositioning its Classmates division as a nostalgia site. Classmates will relaunch by the end of 2010 to highlight its nostalgia content. This will enable members to view newspaper clippings, and radio and TV broadcasts from the year they graduated from high school. One of the main features of the new website will be digital copies of thousands of old high school yearbooks.[11] The overhaul is now being rolled in preview form via (surprise) email invitations to existing Classmates Gold members.[12]

[woj]

They should just sell out to facebook and get it over with...

[minicivan]

Gotta pay $9.95 per month

[ottopottomouse]

Can remember this one too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_Reunited

[96ukssob]

I think they were around before Facebook became popular though? Other than that I guess it's another sort of idiot tax.

they've been out for a while and I believe they were also sued too for displaying fake data to get people to signup.

i knew of one person a while ago who signed up and said it was a complete waste. they are of no use now, almost like AOL disks

[RyuLion]

Gotta pay $9.95 per month

Hahaha, they're dieing..

I remember paying 3 years ago..now I have a lot of High School friends on my FB account.

[scuba steve]

Gotta pay $9.95 per month

haha picture is worth a thousand words

[Houdini]

"Classmates.com Employees Don't Have Heart To Tell CEO About Facebook

SEATTLE?Employees at Classmates.com?an online service that enables users to find and communicate with people from their past for a monthly fee?have done everything in their power to keep the company's CEO from finding out about the wildly popular social networking site Facebook. "He knows something is going on," Classmates.com web coder Josh Krzysch said while combing his boss's newspaper and removing any offending articles. "The other day he asked me why people aren't interested in getting in touch with old friends anymore, and I told him that the Internet just isn't very popular right now. What else was I supposed to say?" Employees claim that unless things somehow miraculously improve by next month, they plan to quietly pack up their desks and leave in the middle of the night."

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cla...-tell-ce,6710/

[fatfoo]

I think it is unlikely that one of my friends from my classes signed up for classmates.com. Facebook is more popular.

[anexsia]

I think it is unlikely that one of my friends from my classes signed up for classmates.com. Facebook is more popular.

Bots attend highschool?