Classmates.com is a great idea with a lousy implem
I really tried to like classmates.com, but the site is useless. For example, only 20 names at a time will show on the screen (because so much screen room is taken up with advertising for crap). But if I want to see people in the S's with my class of 800 students, I need to commit over an hour and a half to try to page through the list.
The problem is that they seem to think they are in the business of advertising rather than trying to connect people. If they made it pleasant to use I would have spent more time there, but it is just too anoying.
If all of the paper in the world went away does that mean that journalism would die? No, it just means that it would need to be written on dirt (with a stick), a piece of metal (a stick on aluminum foil maybe), or with electrons (with a keyboard of course). The point is that it is the message, not the medium. The newspaper business is all about selling more paper (with the news on it) rather than delivering the news to the consumers by whatever method. Remember when the papers were going to go out of business because of TV?
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Classmates.com is a great idea with a lousy implem
The problem is that they seem to think they are in the business of advertising rather than trying to connect people. If they made it pleasant to use I would have spent more time there, but it is just too anoying.
On the post: 20 Year Old Complaints About Dying Newspapers Sound Familiar
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