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So This Is How They Hook You…

An old friend from way way back, who is wanting to get in touch with me, sent me a link via Classmates. They say you can access info for free and they entice you to enter your name and email into the data base. Only after you sign up for the free account do you realize just how limited your options are using the free service. You can look at a list of name of people from your high school who are also members, but you can’t contact them, and if they contact you, you can’t read the e-mail unless you buy the “Gold” or “Platinum” upgrade.

You think, eh, I didn’t have a great high school experience so I won’t need the upgrade.

But then when you start looking at the names of all those classmates, so many of whom didn’t even know you existed (what, don’t pity me, I was boring), but some of whom it would be nice to touch base with again, you start asking; should I open my wallet and pay the $2.95 per month to get in contact with people I probably have nothing in common with. Not only that, since I was way, way in the proverbial closet in those days, the people I went to hich school with never really knew me!

But still, it would be nice….