Sunday, April 25, 2010

Ask them anything! Anonymously or not!

I notice a website which is called formspring.me. It is said that you can ask anything to your friends either anonymously or not.

Unlike Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Formspring.me gives you another way in rising your social needs.
It is like a Personal Interview Profile just for you! Anyone can ask you different questions just like your being Interviewed by someone.
The website is very simple, its simpleness and creativity makes it popular to many people who also uses Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr.
You can also invite other people on answering your questions either anonymously or not.
Now, you can connect to the website via Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.
Its easy! I love the sites core even thought its very simple yet attractive
It also has handful widgets to those people who has their own website, I do actually have one, look at the right side of my Blog, you see it right?
If your have some bad social media following, the site can also offer you random questions.

Of course, given the fact that you get to choose exactly which questions you want to answer, you can tailor this ongoing interview to be totally self-serving. Given that many of the questions are likely to be submitted anonymously, you could even ask yourself questions that you really want to answer (“Why yes, I do regularly contribute to charity and promote world peace”). That said, it will be pretty easy to spot people who do this, and the most interesting (and popular) users will likely be the ones who are most willing to leave their comfort zone.
Popular users are likely to draw a lot of spam and negative questions. You’ll have some control over this —  you can require people to log in before they submit a question (though their question will still be anonymous if they wish). But most people with a significant following can probably expect some hateful or meaningless questions. Of course, people can @reply you on Twitter with whatever they want, so this isn’t a new problem, and you’re not obligated to answer any of these questions.

There have been similar applications available for both blogs and Facebook before, but what Formspring.me lacks in originality it makes up for in execution. The site is clean and easy to navigate, and makes it easy to connect with multiple social networks and blogs. It’s currently throwing some DB Errors, but I suspect that might be because the site is quickly gaining steam. And it’s not hard to see why people are calling the site extremely addictive. 
Formspring.me was created by Formspring, a company that provides tools for building web forms.

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