Formspring

WHAT IT IS:
===Formspring, the Q&A site that allows users to ask each other questions anonymously, just celebrated its one year anniversary in November. You may not know much about it, but among a certain set of young web surfers its got an impressive following. So impressive, that they have over 20 million registered users! its a site focused on letting teens ask all sorts of personal questions of each other through the filter of the Internet. Formspring said their site connects people "by one simple thing: curiosity about one another."How the site works? One simply clicks through to a user's profile and finds a box that reads "Ask me anything." Submit a question and it goes into the user's inbox. once it's answered the question and answer appear in the person's feed, which looks much like a Twitter profile.studies have showed that only 8% of the questions asked are non-anonymous.===



HOW IS fORMSPRING TIPPING:
===the majority of the questions asked by thses anonymous users are often grafic and deeply personal showing that curiosity about other's sexual proclivities and histories is a huge part of what makes Formspring tip. This is why we believe Formspring is a toxic Web Site that should be de-tipped. teenagers feed into gossip and rumors and formspring has become an open opporuntiy for teens to expose anothers personal business without being knowledeged for it because you cam post things anonymously===

= OVER 700 million questions asked =

The Few & Sticiness:
=== Formspring is a big trend where almost every facebook user also has a formspring account. Facebook made this web site more popular causing it to father tip. Formspring is sticky because its entertaining every teenager likes a little gossip. ===

The Effects:
== Formspring is a cultural ohenomenon that is negative for society. It's likely the questioners are either sexually charged high school boys or jealous female peers, when joining you are likerly to be expsoed inappropriate language. so its safe to say formsrping is a land of cyberbullying. == []

Alexis Pilkington;
== back in March, when cruel comments on her Formspring page were blamed as one reason Alexis Pilkington, a West Islip, N.Y. high school student, ** killed herself ** ** DE-TIPPING FORMSRPING!!!! ** ** 1. Inform teenagers on the dangers of formspring(cyberbullying) ** ** 2. Promote positivity ** ** 3. BLOCK FORMSPRING (this can be at home and/or school) ** ==