Ask.fm: Movement should be avoided

Currently, ask.fm has about 100 million registered accounts, but the number of users actually accessing this address is much larger.

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The introduction of ask.fm based on the " Confession " trend has appeared on Facebook. At that time, users must use a Google Form or a similar service to create an input table, and then ask people to ask questions. Now, with ask.fm, users only need to register for an account and can link ask.fm with Facebook to be able to receive friends' questions quickly.

Ask.fm is also more effective because each answer will be automatically uploaded to Facebook if the user allows it. From there, it will attract more interested friends to the user's ask.fm page.

To ask a question for someone, users do not need to have an account ask.fm , but just ask questions without anonymity. Of course, the account holder needs to set up this mode so everyone can use it.

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Save ask.fm "follow the" Confession movement on Facebook.

In addition to the positive side is to help users have the opportunity to share more about themselves before the questions of others. Since that helps people understand each other better, live more harmoniously, this trend is being abused by users with negative questions, profanity, even insulting others.

Currently many reputable foreign news sites have condemned ask.fm, such as the Daily Mail said, ask.fm is a cyber-threatening type and the cause of some self-suicide cases in the world. In fact, in August last year, a 14-year-old English girl was said to have died of self-indulgence by insults from friends on ask.fm. Shortly thereafter, a prime minister of England as a parent called on people to boycott ask.fm to protect their children.

Meanwhile, this trend is still growing strongly in Vietnam. Until now, there have been many negative questions, but still at a joking level among friends. However, it may happen that one day, ask.fm is overused for unintentional or malicious jokes.

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Ask.fm is very junk and contains lots of vulgar information.

The above happens partly because of the terms of use of ask.fm. Accordingly, the administration board asked.fm has refused to take any responsibility for all questions and user answers. In addition, incognito mode also motivates innocent users to ask questions without having to worry about being discovered by others. Meanwhile, the answers of a person can be read by anyone who just has an account ask.fm, even though the owner has blocked the guest account.

At the advice of UK psychologists, right now, those who have been using ask.fm should immediately remove the link between ask.fm with Facebook, terminate all relevant information ask.fm on personal page. As for people who haven't used ask.fm, they should never use it.