Firmly believing that Facebook is no longer for college students, a new college-only social network, College.com, is launched. It is a one-stop shop for information and communication between students. College.com stays true to the school by requiring an .edu address.
“Facebook has largely abandoned its core student audience in favor of an open platform for widget aficionados, businesses and soccer moms. College.com is emerging in this vacuum as the collegiate-only social network. We connect students to their social life as well as their course work,” said founder Jon Davidman.
Students can create user profiles and connect online with people in their classes. It also integrates course schedules, professor profiles and rankings, event listings, study aids and other features that combine the academic elements of college with a student’s social life. Students can also access online note cards to organize their workload and study for exams.
Originally posted on September 27, 2007 @ 10:13 am
It’s nice to see someone step up and fill the void that Facebook left.
However, with so many people already entrenched in the Facebook world, I wonder how many will care enough to switch.
agreed. I joined College.com and there seems to be a lot of students on FSU’s network. I heard the site is going to build a professor interface similar to blackboard…wonder how that will work out.
WTF?? There’s no place to login or create an account. Why the hell are all these “college only” social sites biting the dust or still in development years after the articles on them are written?
Lymabean=dead
Thecollegelife=coming soon?
TheQuad=doesn’t support a top ranked univ
Thesquare=only supports “top ranked” schools, of which mine is on there, but the site is bland and boring.
I want a freakin good website that is restricted to .edu emails. Is that so freakin hard? I’m fed up with facespace. Nothing but children creating fake fan pages for businesses(hope they sue the little bastards and fb for not shutting them down) and stupid adults who spam the college pages with stupid sports comments on serious topics.