Classmates: A Social Networking Website That Lets You Find Old Classmates

The wonders of computer technology make it possible for us to learn about our former elementary, high school or college classmates without the need of organizing homecomings. As we grow older we sometimes move out of our community to grab opportunities in different places or change our surnames when we get married. These situations make searching for old friends a harder task to do. If you are wondering what happened to your college sweetheart, and who among your friends have succeeded in their chosen professions, the website to turn to is Classmates.

Classmates is a social networking website that is especially created to meet the need of people to keep old relationships and build new ones too. However, it is much different from other social networking websites because the services that it offers are for a certain fee. There is also an available free membership plan but you are limited in the things that you can do in the website. At present, there are three levels of paid membership that you can choose from. These are inexpensive and worth your every single penny.

If you are interested on its features, visit Classmates at classmates.com. At its homepage, you are directed to search for your school. After which, you will have to create your profile. This is to be displayed on the website as it contains information about you that you want to share with other people. When you grab the free membership plan, you can post your profile and view other members’ profiles. But this is all you can do. You cannot contact or invite them. That is why it is encouraged to get one of the paid membership programs.

There are three ways of searching for your classmates. One is to type their names under user search. The second is typing the name of your school or the schools you’ve attended and third is putting the exact year you graduated. Payment for membership in the Classmates website is only to up 5 dollars a month maximum. You enjoy the benefit of contacting your classmates and sending broadcast messages to all people in your school network. This facilitates easier communication when organizing social activities or promoting certain services or businesses. Paid membership also gives you the privilege of using the website’s message boards.

Reconnecting with your former classmates is a fun thing to do. These are the people you’ve shared special memories and dreams with. It would be very enjoyable to know what happened to them and to share also what you’ve accomplished so far in terms of your career and love life or simply showing them appreciation for being a part or your life.

Social networking security in the workplace

At any given moment today, on-the-clock employees are updating their social media status, reading feeds and networking on business media sites. Moments can stretch to minutes: A recent study by the Ponemon Institute found that 60 per cent of social media users spend at least 30 minutes a day on these sites while at work.

Microsoft social networking site So.cl now open to all users

So.cl, an experimental research project from Microsoft, that combines social networking and search to promote learning, is now accepting all users interested in joining the site.

7 Social Networking Apps for When Facebook Jumps the Shark

Facebook fever is everywhere. If you need to escape, here are seven social networking apps you can use to fill the void.

KurbKarma makes car parking social

NEW YORK -- Social networking has finally come to the aid of drivers ceaselessly circling in hopes of finding a parking spot on Union Street or North Beach in San Francisco. Here at TechCrunch Disrupt , KurbKarma launched an iPhone app that could take the pain out of parking. A user ready to vacate a parking spot publishes his or her spot to the app, which it locates on a map and then sends out ...

The dangers of social networking

With 750 million subscribers, Facebook easily overshadows all Internet social network providers. Facebook’s closest competitors, Twitter, LinkedIn, My Space, and Google, don’t come close to having as many subscribers.