The Shady Business Practices of Classmates.com 275
eldavojohn writes ""Some of your classmates are trying to contact you!" reads one e-mail. Attempts to remove yourself from the mailing list may only result in more mailings from the site of ill repute. Well, Ars Techica brings us news of a suit against Classmates.com. You don't need to look far for anti-classmates.com sentiment spreading like wild fire across the tubes." Good next target: ads that say "you've already won" some expensive toy.
Damn (Score:5, Funny)
"Some of your classmates are trying to contact you!"
Does this mean they aren't? I'll just lay down and cry!
Re:Why use that? (Score:5, Funny)
Because they don't care about you. They are looking for the 10 year old alumni from psychology browsing some employment site for the 3000th time that gets a big ad in her face talking about classmates. She hopes to reunite with her undergrad sweetheart hoping he's made something of his life and will take her out of her life of futility.
Well, no, bitch. I'm through with you. Mark might have been better looking and knew how to talk and stuff being a communications major, but who's laughing now? Me! Hah! hahahaha...
Re:Damn (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Damn (Score:2, Funny)
Tom? Is that you? We've been looking for you over on Classmates!
Well, okay, not really. But does it make you feel any better?
classmates service that people would pay for (Score:5, Funny)
"Which one of your former classmates is doing hardcore pr0n now? Find out!"
Reminds me of that 4chan motivational poster, I think they called it "expectations," showing the yearbook photo of a girl and her "what I want to be when I grow up" quote with a close-up of her a few years later taking a facial on some gonzo pr0n shoot. Funny in a "yikes, not really" sort of way.
on the other hand... (Score:5, Funny)
i still owe three or four of them money...
classmates.com aren't a collection agency for them...
guess it's not that bad.
Re:Why use that? (Score:5, Funny)
You're not bitter at all are you?
Re:classmates service that people would pay for (Score:5, Funny)
I laughed at your post, then thought, "you know, I really would pay for that."
Re:Why use that? (Score:3, Funny)
That's true for MySpace, but not for Facebook. Sounds like you're basing your opinion on Facebook on MySpace.
Go check out Facebook. You might be surprised. Virtually everyone I know with a computer uses Facebook - more than half of my friends on FB are over 25.
Agreed facebook is laregly poney free.
Re:Damn (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry. They (the classmates) probably just want to collect the money you owed them when you finished school.
Re:Social networking, web 2.0 - all crap. (Score:3, Funny)
Ok sir, I'll get off your lawn.
Re:Social networking, web 2.0 - all crap. (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, you have contact information on every person you've ever met in your life?
I congratulate you, sir, on your extensive record keeping.
Re:Never got anything from them (Score:5, Funny)
Or worse....
You've already won!(tm)
And then in the fine print:
Note: "You've already won!" is a trademark of [insert company name here] and is not meant to state or imply that the reader has, in fact, won anything. More to the point, the mere fact that you clicked on this guarantees that you cannot possibly have won because you are a loser.
Thank God (Score:5, Funny)
Thank God I was universally hated, loathed, ridiculed, and mocked in High School for my interest in history (WWII, Pacific Theater) and computer science. Anyone from classmates.com trying to reach me is either:
A: Trying to kill me because I stole their girlfriend after college because I actually had a decent paying job.
B: Trying to kill me because I ended up as their boss and fired them for showing up to work drunk after I stole their girlfriend.
C: An ex-girlfriend planning to sue me for emotional damages after they found out I in fact did a piss-poor job writing thier final paper.
D: A former classmate who is going through a mid-life crisis and is desparately trying to reach a former classmate in hopes thier life turned out worse then their own.
E: A former classmate named Robert who now is named Donna and want's to meet
F: A former classmate that needs help hiding a body in a New Mexico desert.
G: A former girlfriend who was in band class who's boyfriend turned out to be a sexual predator and needs someone to talk to...
H: A former classmate I owe money too!
Insensitive Clod (Score:2, Funny)
Dude, I'm nearly 50. Just, no. Ick. Really didn't need to think that.
Re:Already illegal (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, she's following you! Either get her phone number, or get a restraining order.
Re:on the other hand... (Score:2, Funny)
"Oh, snap."
Hope that was the saying, not the sound of Vinnie breaking your leg.
Re:Why use that? (Score:4, Funny)
Fatal error: divide by zero.
The real formula is Facebook/|ln(Myspace)| == something somewhat useful over an absolute log of shit.
Re:Already illegal (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Damn (Score:3, Funny)
I got the same message and I was home schooled.....and an only child.
Re:Damn (Score:4, Funny)
You have to open the trojan to see the pics! Duh!