Someone closed their Formspring account, stating that “Formspring is a cesspool for creepy, rude and generally unnecessary questions.” Agree/disagree? Your thoughts? I neither agree nor disagree. It hasn’t been my experience. I’m incredibly fortunate and have only had a select few questions that I’ve had to delete because they were rude or disrespectful. The thing with allowing people to be anonymous is that you give them the ability to be cowards. They can say the things that rest within the depths of the acid in their stomach. The things that shouldn’t ever be regurgitated. And whether it makes them feel better about themselves, or makes them feel as though they’re helping you or whatever their logic (or circle-logic) may be, it’s just not worth the time getting upset about. Formspring is a useful tool for me. I’ve answered almost 1,000 (991 to date) questions since I started using it. And weeding through the occasional idiot is worth keeping the service up for people to use the way it was meant to be used. Another thing that is relevant to mention: watch where you link your formspring. If you only link your formspring on facebook, it’s probably going to be your “friends” saying those creepy/rude/unnecessary things. If you post it on your website, or a forum, or link it out for the entire world to see… well, the more you link the more you’re going to get in return. If I linked mine out and got nothing relevant back I would assume that people weren’t taking me seriously, and I would stop answering questions. Until then, the number of questions I get highly outnumbers the number of non-questions I get. So it’s staying.
