Formspring Gets the Worst Press Ever

Everyone’s building a social networking tool! From Jumo (for do-gooders) to Vyou (for camwhores) to Formspring (for narcissists) to Honestly (for slagging off former coworkers) to Quora (for truth-telling!). One thing that many of these new tools has built in is the ability to trash, annoy and threaten people anonymously. And so here we are: “Formspring proves popular with teens and their tormentors.” Yup, $10 million in Series B funding and the newspaper headlines are “Web site brings out the bullies.”