If you have an .edu email addy you are so in!

[moshquerade]

Should we buy stock in this one?
Flaw though... there are others who have student email addys besides students...

Site lets students post wild pics without prying eyes

Monday, August 30, 2010 - Updated 3 hours ago

A new social cyber network, CollegeOnly, bans nosy parents and future bosses - so coeds can freely post their unsavory party pictures - and is hoping to storm the Hub.

Founder Josh Weinstein, a 2009 Princeton graduate, said he wants to re-create the “awesomeness” of Facebook, whose membership has exploded beyond college students to their parents, future employers and other people coeds don’t necessarily want peeking on their page.

Weinstein said Facebook has changed from what it used to be when he joined as an incoming college freshman.

“It had a certain niche and a certain excitement to it - uploading pictures, status updates and meeting people through classes,” Weinstein said. “Facebook has just become something different.”

Weinstein, a 23-year-old New Yorker, said some college students don’t feel as comfortable sharing photos and status updates with their mom, dad or others.

“You don’t necessarily go out to parties with your parents and employers,” Weinstein said.

CollegeOnly members don’t have to fret over posting photos of the weekends hijinks as the site only accepts those with a valid college e-mail.
The cyber startup’s site boasts that it’s the “only one that is free from parents, potential employers and other folks that shouldn’t see what you are up to on a Saturday night or at any given point during the day.”
“It’s time to party,” the site says, “are you ready?”

So far, CollegeOnly is live at three schools - Princeton, Yale and Cornell - but some Hub schools could be next.

“There are so many colleges in the Boston area. It’s a really exciting place that we’d love to go,” said Weinstein, whose interns include a Boston College student.

Weinstein previously founded two other college-only sites: GoodCrush, an online social network that focused on dating, and RandomDorm, a video chatting Web site. Both were shut down to make way for last week’s launch of CollegeOnly, whose investors include Facebook investor Peter Thiel and Softbank, a Newton-based capital firm.

We asked for access to the site, but Weinstein turned us down. “It’s college only,” he said. “Sorry.”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...ing_eyes_party_school/srvc=home&position=also

 

[Terzo]

Should we buy stock in this one?
Flaw though... there are others who have student email addys besides students...

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/re...ing_eyes_party_school/srvc=home&position=also

Pretty much what you said. I don't imagine it's that difficult to get a .edu address.

 

[nageov3t]

what happens after a user graduates college?

 

[Anubis]

i get to keep my college .edu email addy for life

giggity giggity

 

[Legendary]

i like the idea (my school was one of the original FB schools) but it won't really work. i graduated in 07, still have my .edu email, i believe i'll have it for the next 20 years

and who's going to maintain yet another social networking profile?

 

[kranky]

I have an .edu email address from my alumni org. If I was truly desperate and wanted access in order to evaluate job candidates, I would sign up for a $40 class at my community college just to get the .edu email address for a semester.

It's not going to keep anyone out.

 

[bignateyk]

Like others have said, just because you have a .edu email address doesn't make you a college student.

Some universities let you continue to use your .edu address after you graduate. Every university employee will also have a .edu address. Anyone who signs up for a class will have one.

I have a .edu address and I haven't taken a class in almost 5 years.

 

[silverpig]

i like the idea (my school was one of the original FB schools) but it won't really work. i graduated in 07, still have my .edu email, i believe i'll have it for the next 20 years

and who's going to maintain yet another social networking profile?

It took me all of 2 seconds to find this loophole too.

I wonder how many parents and employers have an .edu address...

Also, .edu isn't common anywhere but the US.

 

[ViviTheMage]

won't work ...

 

[rudder]

oh yeh... this is a good idea... because no one on that site is collecting pics and data for future use.

 

[JTsyo]

Do expect people to stop using the site once they graduate?

 

[robphelan]

for other reasons (software discounts), i need to look into getting one from my old school.

 

[shortylickens]

If you wanna be a whore thats fine. But dont expect your life to be private if you suck and fuck a dozen guys in the dorm. The Constitution doesnt extend privacy to those situations. If you cant handle that, dont be a whore. And in any case, the people who participate may spill the beans at any times they wish, so photographic evidence may not be necessary to ruin your life.
If you wanna run for president some day, just think about that.
This whole "I wanna do whatever the fuck I want and never be accountable for it" attitude doesnt actually exist in the real world. Shit always comes back to haunt you. Dont do anything you cant live with 20 years later.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

so what your saying is, ivy leaguers don't understand how to adjust privacy settings on facebook.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

http://www.australia.edu/.

everyone knows this.

 

[robphelan]

http://www.australia.edu/.

everyone knows this.

nice.

 

[Tobolo]

Woot! Never been so happy to be on staff at a university.

 

[dfuze]

I barely ever even touch my FB account, no thanks on another that has tons of rediculous postings.

 

[DrPizza]

Who would be so stupid as to believe that such a site would be secure from having others (parents, potential employers, etc.) see it? Oh yeah, college students.

Once you put anything on the Internet, it's available to pretty much anyone. You have to be very naive to believe that your information, especially on a non-secured site, isn't fairly public. Numerous times, even on this site, people have requested that we delete all of their old posts, because someone in their "real world" has discovered their online identity & is going to go through those posts. Lots of embarrassing things at times. Bummer.

 

[darkxshade]

I am so out of facebook, why would I want to be in on this?

 

[moshquerade]

I am so out of facebook, why would I want to be in on this?

for moar b00bies?

 

[sactoking]

Not only do lots of non-students have .edu email addresses, but lots of real students don't. A growing trend in universities (one of which is my grad school alma mater) is to save money by not issuing university email. All incoming students are required to sign up for a Yahoo!/Hotmail/Gmail account and provide it to the school for official use. In fact, they went so far as to shut down the .edu service right after I graduated, no grandfathering anyone in. Faculty and staff also do not have school-sponsored email anymore.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I have an edu address, but I work at one. So... score!?

 

[Wyndru]

k, so who will be the first to convince http://net.educause.edu/edudomain/ to grant them a domain, so you can sell email addresses to parents?

I can see it now "I want to register a school, it's a 4 year college in my basement".

 

[Nik]

k, so who will be the first to convince http://net.educause.edu/edudomain/ to grant them a domain, so you can sell email addresses to parents?

I can see it now "I want to register a school, it's a 4 year college in my basement".

No need to sell anything. Go get one for free.

http://www.australia.edu/.

everyone knows this.