Who Needs a Yearbook When There's Facebook?

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Yearbooks are here to stay

While I am a huge advocate of socilal networking for various reasons, I also work in the yearbook insdustry and have not seen a dramatic decline in yearbook sales due to Facebook or MySpace; rather, declines in sales have been due to economic and cultural factors as the article indicated.

May I also remind you all that putting anything on one specific type of technology will eventually make it obsolete. Anyone still accessing things they put on 8-track tapes? How about floppy disks or zip disks? Remember BETA tapes and VHS? And we're currently seeing the rise of Blue Ray over mere HD. So, let me just say that a printed yearbook is the only technology guaranteed to work in 25 years. (And when you are heading off to your 25th high school reunion, you're going to be glad it does!)

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Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article. Waiting for trackback

Yearbook woes...Not yet

I think that Yearbooks and Facebook need to work together to achieve a common goal. Yes, Journalism is dropping, but according to Yearbook Advisor Mr. Melton yearbook subscritions are not on the decline.

This could eventually be the case, but for now its not. Newspapers on the other hand are on the decline. Major newspapers like the Seattle-Post Intelligencer and Boston Globe have gone strictly online in effor to save money and cut down on employees...that's a whole different story

Bad headline

While the headline of the article implies that traditional yearbooks are on the decline, the actual crux of the story is that, despite social networking technology, hardbound paper yearbooks are actually as relevant and important as ever.

Yearbooks will always be around

Yearbooks will be the only thing that can be opened in 25 years due to all the changes in technology. Who's to say the Internet, the way it currently exists will be available in the future so Facebook pages can be opened. The students today live in the now- they are not too concerned about the past or the future, but rather they are more concerned about the present. Facebook suffices this need. When Facebook is obsolete, students will still have yearbooks to remember their high school years.

It will never become obsolete

Yearbooks will always be the most up-to-date technology. Just open the book and there you go. Imagine what people would be doing if years ago all yearbooks disappeared and were replaced by Beta yearbooks. Or, heck, even VHS tapes. Now that technology is gone. Even DVDs will have a short life span and video yearbooks will be hard to look at. A book will always be accessible. It's true, too, that kids would rather have the hard book than anything else. Our book goes to about 80 percent of the student body. Twice, advisers have tried to start a video yearbook and failed because no one bought them.