A fourteen year-old student, Jamey Rodemeyer, from Williamsville North High School in New York state, United States, committed suicide on September 18, 2011 after repeated incidents of bullying in real life and on Formspring.
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In January 2011, Spring.me added a smile button which acts similar to the Like button on Facebook.
Jobstr features an "ask me anything" format, popularized by Reddit and Formspring, which deviates from the more traditional Q&A format employed by sites including Yahoo! Answers and Quora where any user may submit an answer to a question, after which other users can vote to indicate their favorite of all answers submitted.