GrinnellPlans is a private, virtual community for Grinnell College students and alumni. Plans is a text-based, no-frills social networking platform that began in the fall of 2000 as an outgrowth of the then-discontinued VAX UNIX system's finger program. It is widely used by the Grinnell community but virtually unknown outside of it.
Links
- GrinnellPlans.com - the GrinellPlans website, requires @grinnell.edu email to register.
- "A Long and Biased History of PLANS", by Molly Backes, 2002.
- "A Sociological Study of Grinnell Plans" by Mark Root-Wiley, 2009.
- "Letter to the editor: Plans isn’t Facebook, Twitter or Yik Yak" by Cat Pierro, 2008
