written by IrmaNorman on 31/07/2020
When it started in 1995, it seemed like a good place to find friends from schools. That ended in 2015, when it was acquired by PeopleConnect, which uses Classmates.com to generate subscriptions for its other company Intelius.
Here's the user experience: You enter your schools, and they will display the classmates from your years there. The problem is that Classmates does not have your classmates in their database unless those classmates have registered on classmates.com. I listed 5 of the schools I attended and less than 2% of my classmates were in the database.
You can do an extended search for unlisted classmates, and it returns "0" results, with prominent CLICKBAIT to "find them using the Intelius service". You will wait at least 5 minutes while watching progress bars telling you that the service has found them, and compiling their criminal record, family members, residences, financial history, social media. AFTER 5 MINUTES OF WAITING, you get a screen to sign up for Intelius subscription service.
THAT IS THE REASON CLASSMATES IS STILL ONLINE, TO SERVE AS AS CLICKBAIT FOR INTELUS.
CLASSMATES.COM IS USELESS, and is FULL OF OTHER 3RD PARTY CLICKBAIT under every button, and on all sidebars, and pop-ups. . If they ever get your email, they will bait you weekly with "one of your classmates says hi"
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Upthedoolie's Response to IrmaNorman's Review
Written on: 22/07/2023
Very true and honest. The ethics of classmates.com is very questionable - at best! They falsify information like you receiving a visit from a former classmate or someone has changed their profile photo, and neither statement is true. They have people on their with 2 and 3 personal profiles and some of them have been dead for more than a decade! Some people are on there purchasing, selling, and listing countless real estate properties advertising their business at the expense of the other paid members. There is no manager to speak with. They are not interested in your issues or concerns. Forget about that! Not happening. Classmates does very little to garner the interest of other classmates, or existing classmates, nor do they do anything creative to discount those who have been supporting this service for a long time. It's basically now a " ghost town" website.