When is formspring closing

To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Formspring, one of the original social question and answer sites, has announced that it will be shutting down on March 31st. Launched in November , Formspring let users post questions either anonymously or tagged with their accounts and then receive answer from other Formspring users or anonymous visitors.

Users could also follow each other and post questions targeted to their followers. The service eventually expanded to offer mobile apps for both Android and iOS. Formspring gained some notoriety back in , when it became the focus of teenage bullies that would post insults and threats to other adolescents.

Critics of the service pointed to the fact that the users could post these threats anonymously, thereby enabling them to be much more severe than if their profiles were identifiable. The offensive messages were even linked to a Long Island teenager's suicide in March In a blog post announcing the closure, Formspring founder and CEO Ade Olonoh said that while the service was able to reach a broad audience, the costs required to maintain the site became too much for it to stay afloat.

During its time, Formspring accrued 30 million active users and hosted four billion posts. Existing users will be able to export their content from their accounts through April 15th, after which the site will go fully offline and everything will be deleted. Despite Formspring's imminent shutdown, there are still plenty of websites where users can ask questions and get answers from friends or strangers.

Popular sites like Quora or even Yahoo Answers are still very active and likely will be for some time. Formspring , a once-buzzy site that counted more than 28 million users for its ask-me-a-question service, was the Snapchat of its day—an Internet service popular with teens and misunderstood by adults, and well-funded by eager venture capitalists. Formspring had an incredibly rapid rise, hitting a million users in its first 45 days and growing to 32 employees.

It faced a wave of controversy as teens exploited the anonymity of its question-asking service to bully others. But it never established a clear method of making money, and traffic hit a plateau last summer. It's the rare obvious, public failure of a once-buzzy consumer-Web startup. Most die far more quietly—and many will meet Formspring's fate as they fail to raise more venture-capital financing. Here's a video of Olonoh talking about Formspring in early :. For you. Formspring announced it would be closing over the months of March and April You ask questions of friends—people you follow—and they answer with text, pictures or video.

By default, questions are asked anonymously, but you can opt to include your screen name. You can also opt not to receive anonymous questions.

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