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Lead talk

Reference 8 is only available to subscribers. Does anyone have a free copy of this article ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Universe (talk • contribs) 21:11, 21 April 2010 (UTC) This article is a bit biased, i mean it immediately goes on about it opening the door to harrassment and shows totally negetive media attention —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.12.72.87 (talk) 20:32, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion was previously in the article lead. I've moved it into a separate section titled "lead talk". —me_and 13:33, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Repetition

Proposing to place the history and background sections together, as at the moment they seem to simply repeat each other. Coloursoftherainbow (talk) 12:36, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That would make it have one big intro? We should just remove the text that is superfluous and leaves the section in place. NCSS (talk) 17:38, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MySpace

It should be noted that you can use this through MySpace too not just Twitter and Facebook. STAT -Verse 05:36, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Move to Formspring

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 03:36, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Formspring.me → Formspring — More common use, including on subject website. —me_and 13:24, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:UCN. --TorriTorri(^talk/_contribs) 19:51, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Repetition with bias

Formspring has experienced controversy with hidden questions and perfectly reasonable to mention.

But the repetition of specific media reports in great details which are more verbose than the entire article underscores a bias against Formspring, which has 26 million registrations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seanconneryballs (talk • contribs) 08:24, 6 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. Can you explain what you mean by bias? NCSS (talk) 00:24, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy Section

Hello,

Does anyone else think that the Controversy section of this site is a bit off? NCSS (talk) 21:35, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Rmvd dubious tag on ref #18

I've removed the 'dubious' tag from ref 18. The linked article appears reputable, and clearly states items that are reflected in the contested sentence. There was no talk item about this, so I've removed the tag. Anyone with further: please write here to discuss. peterl (talk) 08:35, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. It seems like they took some liberties. NCSS (talk) 23:16, 17 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

After re-reading all sources in the controversy paragraph I think I actually agree with you Peterl. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NCSS (talk • contribs) 18:51, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is a lot of fluff though NCSS (talk) 22:22, 29 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction

I do not think the introduction summarizes the article very well. The introduction sort of mentions some features but does not give the reader a snapshot of what's detailed in the other sections. I will try to work on this relatively soon so we can remove the flag. NCSS (talk) 02:03, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Move and re-write request

Can someone move the page to Spring.me now? They changed the URL to http://spring.me/(but the old one is still available). And also re-write it to say "spring.me" instead of "formspring" in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HjalteRMC (talk • contribs) 15:57, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

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The result of the proposal was moved. --BDD (talk) 19:16, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Formspring → Spring.me – The company has changed its name, so I am requesting to change to proper one. Making a new article about the new company is pointless since it just took over assests of Formspring. I have made needed changes to the article. BiH (talk) 16:13, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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My revisions

I have tweaked the article to be less confusing and actually state the origin of the original formspring. The history did not explain the true origins of spring.me which started as Formspring. The way it was worded made it sound like formspring started in 2013.TJD2 (talk) 07:01, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

TJD2, what do you think about making two separete articles? I also noticed that there is some confusion within the article. Basically, there are two different companies, one had issues with privacy, while the other had none. What do you think? --BiH (talk) 07:24, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's a thought, but I think that as the two sites were merged into one that it would be more appropriate to leave the article as one and reword portions of it to explain that the name and company changed. It is the same website serving the same function after all. TJD2 (talk) 07:53, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That was my intention in the beginning. However, I realized it only made a confusion. Formspring was a known and used website which was sold as such and it no longer exists. Note that Formspring was shut down before it sold its capacities to other company. Spring.me indeed took its legacy, but that seems to be the only connection, but it is a totally new brand. I hope you understand why I think two articles are probably needed. --BiH (talk) 13:30, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested edit

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

I request the following edit apiano (talk) 16:55, 4 June 2015 (UTC) The concept of Formspring was copied by the creators of Ask.fm, who used the same format of allowing anonymous questioning by people who knew each other offline, which some experts believe is a toxic mix that will inevitably lead to trouble for some users. Both sites have been linked to several teenage suicides. ^[1] ^[2][reply]

References

^ Binns, Amy (2014) Twitter City and Facebook Village: teenage girls' personas and experiences influenced by choice architecture in social networking sites. Journal of Media Practice Vol. 15, Iss. 2, 2014 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14682753.2014.960763 free version available at http://www.academia.edu/9345514/Twitter_City_Facebook_Village_Teenage_girls_personas_and_experiences_influenced_by_choice_architecture_in_social_networking_sites
^ Binns, Amy (2013) Facebook’s Ugly Sisters: Anonymity and Abuse on Formspring and Ask.fm. Media Education Research Journal . Volume 4, Issue 1. ISSN 2040-4530 http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/8378/

Formspring vs. Spring.me

Since it is now retired, and people seem to know it better as Formspring (and news websites refer to it as such), would it be reasonable to make the title of the page Formspring? (this text was added by Jchthys but not signed -KP)

Formspring is (was?) a piece of software for generating web forms. The original site formspring.me was created by the owners of that software to highlight the uses of their product and was sold to the "spring.me" team without that name included. I've been unable to locate with any certainty the status of the company or the product known as formspring, but think it is the company "formstack" which may have disassociated themselves from Formspring over negative publicity. I think it's an error to treat the website spring.me/formspring.me with the name Formspring (not having the ".me" extension) until someone can clarify that. Kentpollard (talk) 19:21, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Since there is an existing page about "Formstack" which is the original owner and creator of the "Formspring" web-form software, I think it's possible that this is a candidate for a disambiguation page, with a page called "Formspring" that links to the spring.me page and a second link to the "Formstack" page.Kentpollard (talk) 14:36, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Binns, Amy (2014) Twitter City and Facebook Village: teenage girls' personas and experiences influenced by choice architecture in social networking sites. Journal of Media Practice Vol. 15, Iss. 2, 2014 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14682753.2014.960763 free version available at http://www.academia.edu/9345514/Twitter_City_Facebook_Village_Teenage_girls_personas_and_experiences_influenced_by_choice_architecture_in_social_networking_sites

[2] Binns, Amy (2013) Facebook’s Ugly Sisters: Anonymity and Abuse on Formspring and Ask.fm. Media Education Research Journal . Volume 4, Issue 1. ISSN 2040-4530 http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/8378/

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