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Classmates.com to Digitize Yearbooks, Reveal Your Painful Puberty

by Caleb Johnson on February 18, 2010 at 04:25 PM

Pine for your glory days but hate pulling those dusty old yearbooks from the attic? Well, Classmates.com hopes to provide a solution with some new changes to its site.

According to Tech Flash, the social networking site that just won't die plans on digitizing yearbooks over the next couple years, and charging users to view and customize full-size images from their high school or college days. Along with the digital versions, the company will pay a vendor to produce DVD and hard copies of the yearbooks to sell. It's a move spurred by the growth of other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Users can view thumbnail images for free, but they'll have to pay a subscription fee for all the site's benefits.

Along with this new model, Classmates.com will partner with Facebook (if you can't beat 'em, join 'em) to offer an application that notifies Facebook users of class reunion news from the Classmates site. While we might be willing to pay for digitized yearbook photos, Facebook has taught us the trials and tribulations of 'reconnecting' with our long-lost middle school classmates. [From: Tech Flash]

Tags: classmates.com, college, facebook apps, FacebookApps, high school, social networking, socialnetworking, students, top, web, yearbook

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