Classmates.com sued by user who had no friends
From the Wired article:
When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying to contact him, he pulled out his wallet and upgraded to the premium membership that would let him contact long-lost fifth-grade dodge-ball buddies and see if his secret crush from high school had looked him up online.
But once he’d parted with the $15, Michaels learned the shocking truth: No one he knew was trying to contact him at all. Classmates.com’s come-on was a lie, and he’d been scammed.
Now he’s suing for being unpopular…oh and lied to. It’s been a while since classmates.com has been in the media circuit so I guess any news is good news?
Interesting news about classmates.com, one of the original social networking sites that just about everyone is a member. Problem is that no one I know has become a paying “gold member” so they can actually do anything on the site other than look at profiles. To me, classmates.com has become kind of a joke and made a huge mistake in not employing a free advertisment based business model like myspace.com or facebook.com as it still holds onto the subscription based revenue model. It does claims to have “40 million registered user” which I am not sure if I believe.
Tags: classmates, facebook, myspace, social
November 17th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Yeah, I’m surprised they still exist to be honest… Most people are on Facebook – which you can search for free… I guess Classmates does group people by class/year etc but still… Yeah, they could have done much better – they were reconnecting people well before social networks…..