Old-Friends.co

Old-Friends.co is an alumni-focused website designed to help people reconnect with former classmates from high schools across the United States and Canada. The service claims to host a database of over 200 million student records from approximately 30,000 schools, allowing users to search for their school and graduating class to find lists of fellow students. Unlike many social media platforms, it provides lifetime access to its services, such as messaging other members and participating in online reunions, for a one-time membership fee. The platform's primary function is to display names and school affiliations, which can expose personal information that individuals may prefer to keep private. This public listing of names, including potential maiden names, creates risks as it allows anyone to confirm a person's past associations, which could be exploited for stalking or unwanted contact. Malicious actors could use this information to build more comprehensive profiles for phishing schemes or social engineering attacks. To protect their privacy, individuals should limit the personal information they share on public forums and can request to have their name removed from the site's class lists.