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One of the more recent social sites to do the rounds has been Formspring.me, where you can ask members questions anonymously (or with your user info attached if you’re registered) and they answer them, the responses being posted up on their profile for the world to read.

Now, I’d been pretty intent on absolutely ignoring Formspring, because… well… lets just say, the people I saw using it were exactly the sort of person you’d expect to want people to question them, who’d want everyone treating them as the centre of attention. It gave across a rather bad impression, and the question I saw answered (via various other social networking sites being linked into it) the most was always along the lines of “do u fancy x lol?” or the inevitable “HOW BIG IS YOU’RE PENIS? ROFL”. Clearly riveting reading.

So Formspring.me passed me by for a good while, the apps blocked on Facebook wherever possible, and the occasional answer from friend’s twitter accounts simply ignored. I didn’t feel like I was missing out, despite my huge interest in the dating habits and penis sizes of friends. I didn’t see anyone putting it to good use, but that changed recently.

I saw a few more of the people I follow on twitter begin to use it, and use it in an interesting way. People responding to actual questions, usually on their opinion of a musician or videogame (That sums up who I follow quite well) and I found myself reading a lot of the answers. T’was good reading, but I still didn’t really feel motivated to get an account, I mean, I’m uninteresting and I generally dislike people, why would I want another thing to refresh which involves both people and a need to stop being dull?

I found myself signing up for an account after seeing Peter Serafinowicz (@Serafinowicz) hold a Q&A session by retweeting the questions with the answers, highly limited in characters (Still brilliantly funny, as per usual), but I found myself thinking “Why doesn’t he just use Formspri- Oh crap, I’ve just mentally suggested a site I decided I was going to stay away from”, and pretty much immediately went to sign up. Damn my fickle ways.

And what did I find once I was registered? That, deep down, I was just as much an attention seeking whore as the people I’d been complaining about earlier. Great going Tom, you’ve become one of them. What’s next, telling the world how big your penis is? Well no. Because no-one’s asked me that yet.

So go ahead internet, do your worst and ask me anything.