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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.
Interesting developments in regards to cheating and social sites such as the ever popular Facebook.
: Study groups may be a virtual trademark of the Ivory Tower – but a virtual study group has been slammed as cheating by Ryerson University.
Ever since the Internet became mainstream, cheating has always been a tough battle for schools an university. If I remember right, it began with online papers/essay sites which would actually sell so called “university grade” term papers and reports from a database or sometimes would simply write one based on the topic submitted.
Now with the popularity of social sites, it’s even easier to communicate and share ideas but what’s the difference with a Facebook group vs a traditional study group? The same information is shared except that it can reach wider audiences more easily. Are universities just behind in the times in recognizing the new ways that students study, meet and share ideas? Facebook is an easy scapegoat due to the shear popularity of it but doing a google search, I sure you can find thousands of other ways to cheat online if you really wanted to.
