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On March 22, 2010, Alexis Pilkington, a 17-year-old West Islip, NY High School graduate committed suicide,<ref>http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/family-friends-shocked-at-cyberposts-after-teen-s-death-1.1827393</ref>purportedly after dozens of insulting comments about her had been posted on formspring.me in the days leading up to her unfortunate decision. Soon after, a local grassroots boycott of the formspring.me site began. <ref>http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/after-teen-s-death-3-800-pledge-web-site-boycott-1.1829354</ref>

Beginning in March of 2010, Formspring.me began suffering severe technical problems which are ongoing and prevent many of its core features from working correctly. These include the ability to post answers either in a timely manner (they appear after about one hour)<ref>http://formspringme.zendesk.com/entries/123535-i-answer-the-questions-but-they-never-appear-on-my-formspring-page?page=9</ref> or at all,<ref>http://formspringme.zendesk.com/entries/123535-i-answer-the-questions-but-they-never-appear-on-my-formspring-page?page=10</ref>, the ability to view more than the latest 20 answers from users, <ref>http://formspringme.zendesk.com/entries/123307-more-doesn-t-work</ref> <ref>http://formspringme.zendesk.com/entries/123325-the-more-button-does-not-take-me-to-the-next-page</ref>, and the ability to login,<ref>http://formspringme.zendesk.com/entries/106929-username-not-recognized</ref>, modify profiles,<ref>http://formspringme.zendesk.com/entries/133344-i-can-t-edit-any-information</ref>, and reset passwords.<ref>http://formspringme.zendesk.com/entries/107803-lost-password?page=5</ref>. There has been no official response from the Formspring staff despite hundreds of complaints on their official technical support forum.<ref>http://formspringme.zendesk.com/entries/133898-let-s-add-a-help-button-that-works</ref>.

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