# classmates.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 17, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422 "2002-12-17T21:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/1 "2002-12-17T21:54:55Z")
Does anyone have an account there? I went there, just for kicks. Half my HS class is on there! Way Cool! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/2 "2002-12-17T21:56:09Z")
I have an account there too, a gold one. Our 20th anniv. is next year, but I don’t see any reunion plans yet. No, I don’t want to do it! They found most of my classmates. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/3 "2002-12-17T22:04:12Z")
I’m there. There are a whole bunch of people in my graduating class I don’t remember… it’s been 25 years, but still. dang. I’m gonna have to get out my yearbooks some day and put some faces to these names. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/4 "2002-12-17T22:09:40Z")
I have an account there. I was hoping to track down some old friends. Instead, a psycho ex-girlfriend tracked me down. Caveat emptor. ---
**Author:** ![sj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sj2)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/5 "2002-12-17T22:17:10Z")
I can’t understand paying $36 a year for this. There is another site that charges $3 for life. I think it’s [www.schoolnews.com](http://www.schoolnews.com) - they don’t advertise on every page shown on the Internet, so they may not have a lot of folks on there. I think you have to pay the 3 bucks before you can see who else is registered as well. ---
**Author:** ![slowhand53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@slowhand53](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowhand53)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/6 "2002-12-17T22:36:56Z")
I had to grab the yearbook on my first visit. haven’t been back lately (so many more of the features are pay-based now). I think they set up a reunion there but I’m not sure. now if only i had been friendly with more of the people there i might’ve taken more of an interest. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/7 "2002-12-17T22:56:55Z")
thanks sj2, but I was the 1st one from my class. I prefer to eneter a jumping party. (so to speak) ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/8 "2002-12-17T22:58:43Z")
I’ve registered there, but the school that I attended for grades 1 through 3 no longer exists, and there’s no listing for the school I went to for grade 4 and most of grade 5…that hampers my having a complete listing there. Quite a few of my high school class are registered there, but none of them has contacted me. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/9 "2002-12-17T23:08:44Z")
I’m there along with maybe 1/3 of my class. We had our twentieth in October. Sigh. You young 'uns don’t know how easy you have it. [shake cane] When I was in school we didn’t have these MP3 players and laptops. We had to listen to 8-track tapes and our computers didn’t even have screens! And when they got screens, they were black and white. Megabytes my ass. ---
**Author:** ![MrMyth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@MrMyth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMyth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/10 "2002-12-17T23:55:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by photopat \* > > Megabytes my ass. That’s gotta hurt. I also have an account there, and managed to track down an unrequited grade-school crush. Some dreams are better left as dreams. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/11 "2002-12-18T02:12:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sj2 \* > \*\*- they don’t advertise on every page shown on the Internet, \*\* Lately, [classmates.com](http://classmates.com) seems to be the pop-up du jour. Nearly every site I go to has a clasmates ad popping up like a madman. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/12 "2002-12-18T02:16:19Z")
$36 a year, to talk to people I didn’t talk to 20 years ago? I think not. The true friends I had in HS are still my friends today. Both of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/13 "2002-12-18T02:17:23Z")
fwiw, I’m engaged to an old girlfriend - who now says I am her ‘$36 whim’ - she paid just to send me an email… ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/14 "2002-12-18T02:32:57Z")
I just let my paid membership run out. I’ll use the freebie part of it from now on. It’s OK, I guess. I never really paid a whole lot of attention to HS once I left (OK, I didn’t pay much attention while I was THERE either, but that’s another story…) but it is kinda neat to find an old friend once in a while. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classmates-com/143422/15 "2002-12-18T03:13:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by photopat \* > **You young 'uns don’t know how easy you have it. [shake cane] When I was in school we didn’t have these MP3 players and laptops. We had to listen to 8-track tapes and our computers didn’t even have screens! And when they got screens, they were black and white.Megabytes my ass.** _ **You young’uns?** _ About twice a year they would bring in an old movie projector and show us a black and white movie ("A Tale of Two Cities was a yearly event). We used fountain pens, because there was no such thing as a ballpoint and the typewriters were manual. Computers?; 8-track?; yeah **“megabytes my ass!”** 😉