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'''Formspring''' is an [[Website builder|Online Form Builder]] and [[Internet hosting service]], which enables users to create online forms such as surveys, contact forms, or event registrations. On November 25, 2009, they launched '''Formspring.Me at cutmeupchelsea''', a social media site where users can ask each other anonymous questions. Formspring.Me, which links to [[Facebook]] and [[Twitter]], became a craze in early 2010.<ref>http://www.bcheights.com/features/editor-s-corner-ask-me-anything-1.1167746</ref><ref>http://thesocialrobot.com/2010/02/formspring-me-overshare-without-the-embarrassment/</ref><ref>http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/formspring-ask-me-anything/</ref> In response to its sudden popularity, [[microblogging]] site [[Tumblr]] launched a nearly-identical service called "Ask Me".<ref>http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/06/tumblr-formspring/</ref>

Formsprings could be seen as a site which enables friends and family to socialise, but the annoymous postings which are allowed to be posted opens a pathway to a range of bullying, some minor, to extreme, including victimisation, harrasment, name calling, and there is no where on the site to report the abuse.