currently the most popular social networking site in Poland. "Nasza klasa" means "our class," and the website is similar in design to classmates.com. It allows people to join schools, from which they graduated, and classes within schools. It also allows to build a social network by reconnecting to old friends, and post photographs. Initially, nasza-klasa lacked any privacy controls because it was meant as a small, local project. After one year of existence, a sudden surge in popularity came. The number of registered users quickly exceeded 1 million, which started exponential growth. After a few months, the site had more than 5 million users. Currently, the site has more than 11 million users.
(The population of Poland is roughly 40 million.) The unexpected growth choked the website, and the utmost priority of the developers was performance, and not privacy. Right now, the website offers only basic privacy protection such as black listing, and restricting the visibility of the information in the profile. However, the biggest privacy problem are the users themselves. Most of them have had no prior experience with social networks before. The theme of the site is very encouraging to share as much personal information as possible. After all, the users are surrounded with their classmates, who are the people they usually trust, and with whom they shared their personal secrets in the childhood. They have not seen each other for multiple years; therefore, they are extremely willing to share a lot of personal information to make up. They also want their profiles to be easily searchable, in case another old friend should join the site in the future.
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