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Classmates.com represents<br \/>\nthe worst of the worst of social networking apps. The site and its heavily<br \/>\nconstrained database are engorged with advertising and fees. Classmates.com: a<br \/>\nposter child for frame-jacking. The site is, at its best, un-navigable; at<br \/>\nits worst, an e-robber baron donning &quot;social networking&quot; clothing. Why<br \/>\nshould I care? <\/p>\n<p>All the way back in 1991, the year of my high school commencement, I was<br \/>\nclass prez. Quite an honor at the time, of course, and I had a hand in the<br \/>\npost-H.S. leadership, cheering on the many admirable folks far more dedicated<br \/>\nthan me (D. included) who orchestrated the five- and ten-year reunions.<br \/>\nToday, an email came from Classmates.com: &quot;Thus-n-such has sent you a Classmates<br \/>\nEmail.&quot; Cool. I remembered the sender. Classmates stood as an<br \/>\ninterceptor, an intermediary, walling apart the participants in the interchange,<br \/>\nbut the message has links leading me to think I could retrieve the message.<br \/>\nAnd I could. For 15 bucks&#8230;. (the fee for signing on with a three month gold<br \/>\nmembership). The subject line, however, came across clearly: &quot;Class<br \/>\nReunion.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I get it. Cryptic, but at least I knew the email message concerned our<br \/>\nimpending reunion,<i> the<\/i> reunion I&#8217;ve done absolutely nothing to plan. Rather<br \/>\nthan pay the moolah, I used the Classmates.com system to send a response.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s filtered, but maybe J., the sender, has fronted a few bucks for a<br \/>\nmembership (hey, I&#8217;m a grad student; many former classmates, no doubt, are<br \/>\ncollecting a bigger bag of chips each year than my TA stipend). <\/p>\n<p>Later in the afternoon, another message from J. Again, I couldn&#8217;t access the<br \/>\ncontent, but I could tell, because he hadn&#8217;t emailed me directly the way I asked<br \/>\nhim to, that he didn&#8217;t have access to the body of my message. Like me, he<br \/>\nlacks the much coveted Gold Membership and the many social advantages that come<br \/>\nwith full access to Classmates.com (post a bio about yourself! post photos!<br \/>\nsearch!). Oy. Okay, so what else is there? A few minutes ago I<br \/>\ntyped up one final message, this time using the subject line as the message<br \/>\nspace. Classmates.com has plugged many of the gaps that would allow<br \/>\ninformation to stream freely through its toll-burdened sluices, but not this<br \/>\none. The subject line is the only space that shows up, the only space that is<br \/>\nreadable. I may as well try to use it to communicate. One more thought: an improvement to the site would be just the thing I need: a Teflon membership or, that is, one email for $.05. <\/p>\n<p>Whether or not I get in touch with J. is less the point than that<br \/>\nClassmates.com is distressingly obtuse. For the cost of an annual<br \/>\nmembership, I can host a site that floats my name well into the top ten for<br \/>\nGoogle queries searching my name. I&#8217;d google J., but his name is among the<br \/>\nmost generic combos possible (59.9 million results). Maybe it will work to use<br \/>\nthe subject line; maybe it won&#8217;t. Maybe a few minutes on fiascomates.com<br \/>\nis all the cosmological force I need to warrant resigning my esteemed post. It&#8217;s<br \/>\nnot as though I have the faintest thought about getting involved with 15-year<br \/>\nreunion, after all.<\/p>\n<p>The second issue is somewhat less perturbing, but I still rate its annoyance<br \/>\nquotient quite high&#8211;above the peace and calm that should characterize<br \/>\nthese last few days of my May break (before a June of exam reading, teaching<br \/>\nonline and so on). Here&#8217;s the thing: I developed a few courses for Former<br \/>\nU., and I continue to occupy the developer&#8217;s role. It requires a small<br \/>\namount of work from me: updates when book editions change, minor adjustments to<br \/>\nassignments, etc. There&#8217;s a place in the CMS for developer&#8217;s notes.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s good; I&#8217;d like to put the space to use. 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