There’s another neat site that I came across a few weeks back called formspring.me – You may have seen tweets by people you follow that say “Ask Me Anything!” I had seen a someone’s formspring profile and thought nothing of it the first time around but then I saw tweets coming through with the “Ask Me Anything” message, and I became interested. Such a simple concept: its twitter inspired but you only ask and answer questions.
It takes the same idea of updating status messages like you have with twitter but instead of the updating at random – what formspring has done is taken a simple status message forum like twitter and peeled off into something unique. Instead of tweeting at will, narrow down the activity by only asking questions and answering them. You then can follow people’s answers and have people follow yours. That’s it.
I guess you could just tell everyone to ask you questions on your twitter or facebook and you could accomplish the same thing but its so much more interesting when the activity of Q’s and A’s are corraled into one place like formspring.me.
I tried it out and it’s like I said, neat. I mean, next month it could be a twitter-inspired site that lets you post short messages about songs you like, oh wait – that’s Blip.fm – or a twitter-inspired site that lets your write short messages and attach media, ah that’s tumblr. Well whatever it is, I’m sure it’ll be neat.
As for me, you know I’m a sucker for WP. Anything neat you throw at me I’m going to try to accomplish the same thing but with wordpress. You may have read some of my other posts on the implosion of social media…I’m not creating anymore profiles on social media sites with the intention of using them with any real frequency. My social media widgets are too full with favicons as it is. Craziness. I’ll test these neat trick sites sure but I’m commited to DIY moving forward.
So I’m working on an Ask Me theme that you’ll be able to find on http://nahummadrid.com/ask
