Linked2Friends.com really came about as an afterthought.  Here we were facing our 20th high school reunion and it became obvious that the lines of communication with our graduating class had become fractured through 20 years of LIFE!!

There was "the site" that caters to classmates and organizations but while they had lots of people enrolled in their "free" program, very few of our classmates were willing to pay the $40 per year which would allow people to communicate with each other and get on the message boards to catch-up and plan.  The barrier of entry was too steep! We were stuck in a quandry.

It seems obvious that the only way to get dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people to be able to freely communicate was to offer the service for FREE. This way, there was no barrier of entry, people can then communicate as often or seldom as they like but the LINK to the group of friends is always intact and accessible to all that need it.  But we wanted to throw in some nice tools to make it better than just your average message board forum so there are tools that have been created here to make communications that much better.

So this is my little experiment with my own graduating class and anyone else who wants to give it a whirl to see how well this works.  I own the webserver so the cost is minimal and wouldn't it be great to be able to communicate with friends and get updates regularly?

The site is not overly hi-tech YET because this is being done in my spare time.  But it doesn't have to be snazzy to be effective...check out www.craigslist.org if you don't believe me.  It's far from pretty but it sure is popular!

-Eric Schofield, Westover High School, Class of 1987