When Your Classmates Do Not Care What Happened to You

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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.

Baconcat on March 17, 2010 at 9:31 AM

Yeah, that's actually one of my COMPLAINTS with Facebook, Baconcat.

Why can't these people just leave me alone?!

Punditwatch on March 17, 2010 at 9:36 AM

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.

rejemy on March 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM

@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.

Baconcat on March 17, 2010 at 9:45 AM

What Baconcat said. Classmates was useful for about a week in 1999ish.

Joe Szilagyi on March 17, 2010 at 9:45 AM

I guess I'm a cynic. I assumed from the start that Classmates was a ripoff. Duh. Why is this a surprise to anyone?

Reverse Polarity on March 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM

Thankfully they are US-centric, plus I hated everyone I went to school with anyway, so I was never tempted to join.

Cynic Romantic on March 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM

@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.

Julie in Eugene on March 17, 2010 at 9:53 AM

I am in shock that they are still around at all -and around enough to have their name on a new building.

scharrera on March 17, 2010 at 9:56 AM

I am GLAD they never hired me then!

on March 17, 2010 at 10:01 AM

@ 2, you can also delete the fact that you went to that high school at all.

Matt from Denver on March 17, 2010 at 10:03 AM

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.

Rotten666 on March 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM

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!

Andy_Squirrel on March 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM

don't tell anyone, but FB friends aren't really "friends". they're acquaintances.

Max Solomon on March 17, 2010 at 10:17 AM

I agree with Baconcat - lots of classmates thru Facebook, but not thru Classmates.

Will in Seattle on March 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM

@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 ...

Will in Seattle on March 17, 2010 at 10:41 AM

I hope Facebook dies soon.

very bad homo on March 17, 2010 at 10:44 AM

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.

Fnarf on March 17, 2010 at 11:42 AM

@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.

Cato the Younger Younger on March 17, 2010 at 11:48 AM

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.

Simone on March 17, 2010 at 12:23 PM

Buh-buh-buh-but, without Facebook, how will I keep track of what my feeble-minded relatives are harvesting in Farmville?

Fnarf on March 17, 2010 at 1:14 PM

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.

mr. herriman on March 17, 2010 at 2:04 PM

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.

leek on March 17, 2010 at 2:09 PM

possibly. but i unsubscribe from lotsa stuff without any problem, so i don't know why that would be.

mr. herriman on March 17, 2010 at 2:40 PM

Should have done like Ms. Cleo, said it was only for "entertainment value". :p

watchout5 on March 18, 2010 at 3:37 AM

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