In the era of Facebook, high school and college yearbooks are out of fashion, reports the Houston Chronicle. Some high schools no longer publish yearbooks.
At South Houston High School in Pasadena ISD, yearbook adviser Melissa Neely remembers the annual book as a must-have when she graduated in 1989. These days, on a campus of 2,400 students, only about 300 copies sell.
Yearbook publishers blame competition from social networking sites; they’re trying to fight back by making it possible for students to design personal pages.
Facebook won’t tell you who won cutest couple in ‘08.
It is probably also an effect of the growing size of high schools. At a school of 2400, most of your fellow students are probably strangers. In addition, diversity is probably causing it. High schools are so diverse, the many of the students only care about their ethnic group or clique. Why pay 100 dollars for a yearbook with pictures of groups that a student had nothing to do with. I also wonder if Mexico, Korea, China, or India have a tradition of yearbooks.
If you look at high school reunions, they have also probably going to go away. Can anyone image going to a reunion with 600 fellow graduates where most of the students are were total stranger 10 or 20 years ago.
It’ll be hard to look at a “virtual” yearbook 20 years later.
superdestroyer, my high school had 3000, and I bought the yearbook; the same was true for several nearby public schools, where the yearbooks were still fairly popular. We had cliques, and all that, too.
I haven’t gone to most of my reunions, because they’re expensive and at non-exciting places.