School yearbooks. What a waste. :bummer:

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Re: School yearbooks. What a waste.

@Mirch

What purpose do they serve ?
Isn’t it waste of money and lots of trees get killed to print millions of year books.
Why do people need yearbooks for their elementary , middle and high schools. I understand year books for under graduate and graduate level serve a purpose. They get sent to potential employers.
Can the schools switch to a virtual year book system now ? It is not difficult in this day and age. The digital yearbook will last forever and save lots of trees.

Yearbooks serve the same purpose as the photos you take of your friends and family. It’s definitely not a waste of paper - and most institutions nowadays have an option of a digital copy of the yearbook. However, this option isn’t as popular - with a real yearbook, you get people to sign and write comments on it which you can later look back at and enjoy.

I have all my yearbooks and so do my sisters - we look back at them and realise what kind of stages we went through growing up.

Btw, I have never heard of a uni yearbook.