How is this made? I want one!....

mynameisntneo
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:53:08 +0000

Hey sorry to bump a post from a month ago, but I made the website in the first post (I just googled the address to see what would come up). I’ve actually been doing this for Centennial for a couple of years. Before my junior year I was bored and had the idea to create something like this. It was a mess and didn’t work nearly as well as this version, but my friends liked it and it spread by word of mouth to some 300 students before the server crashed and it died.

The next year, I made a new, better version that attracted some 700 Centennial students (http://mynameisntneo.freepgs.com, if you’re interested). That’s a good half of my school. This year I got about the same audience, and I wasn’t even attending Centennial nor were most of my friends who helped promote it among the student body.

Sorry to see most of the comments here have been negative, because it’s been pretty useful in my experience. Partly, it’s because knowing that you know people in your classes is comforting. The most important aspect of it is that over time the database has every class/period/teacher combination in it, so it becomes a replica of the master schedule that the school refuses to release to students. With that knowledge, students can go get into the classes they really want instead of having to wait for school to start to find out what’s when. The counselors came to complain to me on more than one occasion because of this.

I haven’t heard of any reports of stalking, let alone child abuse coming from this site… certainly a lot less of those than from myspace which andreaaaaaa mentioned as an alternative.

Sorry for the long post, but the last time I wrote about this was for MIT (not that I got in!).