this website is soo wrong! i had a formspring and like whats the point?! all people do is ask ( mostly) nasty questions and say rude things! it makes no sense people why have one?

I saw some of the postings a friend's daughter wrote and had written about her and it was horrible. The fact that teens, tweens feel it is acceptable to say things that are cruel and ugly just because it is anonymous is terrible.

HATE IT!!! Formspring.me is nothing but a breeding ground for bullies. For every one positive comment or question posted, there are hundreds of negative, threatening and downright nasty ones. Parents beware - nothing positive can come from your child having a formspring.me account. How many more teen suicides need to occur because of all these horrible questions & comments by cowards before this site is taken down? Even one suicide is one too many.

Hate it...perfect forum for kids to say hateful things to each other anonymously...why would you want to read these things about yourself ...it incites negativity and one up-man-ship on insults. Under cover of "assumed secretiveness", kids are revealing way too much information about themselves.

I have a Formspring, and although it is entertaining, it defenitly doesn't send a positve message. I disagree with everyone who is saying that privacy is an issue, because there are ways to customize your settings to however private you want things to be. However, "hate mail" is defenitly a problem. Almost anybody who chooses to create a Formspring account recieves harrasing messages, which can consist of sexual content, violence, poor language, and most of all, "put downs";. As I said, it is interesting to see what people think of you and others. However, the harrasing posts can be overwhelming. Overall, I really think it depends on the maturity of the child/teen to determine whether or not they should have a Formspring.

I like learning interesting things about people that I would be scared to ask them in real life. but... i was looking at one girl's formspring who goes to my school and she answered 800 questions- almost all were something along these lines: -You're so ugly -Wanna have sex? -Are you a virgin? -Why are you so annoying? -You're such a whore etc. On the plus side....well...it can teach you to stand up for yourself?!?!

Lots of my friends have a formspring and many tell me about how so and so wrote something really mean on their wall. Tons of my friends have gotten their feelings hurt and they don't deserve it. That's why I don't even want one even though its really popular right now. I don't want my feelings hurt. I'm going to just steer clear of formspring, and I'm looking on common sense now and I had no idea it was so bad. A lot of my friends have shut down their formspring due to them being called b****es and other mean names and I think thats good. Steer clear and you wont even risk getting hurt.

I think Formspring is a good idea. It can be a fun thing to answer and ask questions, it being anonymously or not. However, I myself being a Formspring user follow people who I personally see harassed everyday. I have mixed feelings about it. As for the anonymous option, I do think people would definitely act a lot differently if the answerer knew who they were. But I also think having an anonymous option is a good idea, because there are just those certain questions that are perfectly nice, just-wondering-questions, that some people who might be shy, myself included, don't feel comfortable asking without selecting 'ask anonymously'. I, myself haven't had any trouble with bullying of any kind, but then again I don''t get a lot of questions, considering I never really post my Formspring anywhere on the internet. But as I said before, I see people being bullied, one in particular who gets at least 10 questions a day harassing her and bullying her about being fat, etc, calling her pretty much every single 'bad word' in the dictionary. Then again she has the option of not accepting anonymous questions, or deleting her account all together. As far as the language goes, I'm one of those people who doesn't mind bad language but I understand how some people do, but with that, I think that's something they're just going to have to get over. It's all over the internet, not just on Formspring.

It's really great if you want to find out what people think about you, otherwise, there's really no point in joining this website.