Comments on: Find Former Classmates…..In a Book? http://www.dailykrier.com/2010/02/11/find-former-classmates/ Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:04:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Matt Jacobson http://www.dailykrier.com/2010/02/11/find-former-classmates/comment-page-1/#comment-2622 Matt Jacobson Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:46:15 +0000 http://www.dailykrier.com/?p=556#comment-2622 My college did the same exact thing and I had the same exact reaction. The hard copy was something like $90 - what?! And there are no pictures, so you can't even compare it to a yearbook. What a complete waste of paper. Even a site like Classmates.com, who had a great opportunity to leverage social media tools before it was even popular, squandered their chances away and let Facebook groups take over. They basically force users to pay to do anything on the site. Why would anyone do that? My college did the same exact thing and I had the same exact reaction. The hard copy was something like $90 – what?! And there are no pictures, so you can’t even compare it to a yearbook. What a complete waste of paper.

Even a site like Classmates.com, who had a great opportunity to leverage social media tools before it was even popular, squandered their chances away and let Facebook groups take over. They basically force users to pay to do anything on the site. Why would anyone do that?

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