Post One Hundred Ninety Jesus-Stabbing Nine. (Also, Formspring.DesperateHo)

That I've written, anyway. There's something like 195 up. I think. One sec, checking. Nope, you lot have only seen 167. 168, counting this. Jeebas, I have a ton of drafts. Fuck 'em all.

Anyway, it's 1 AM and I just tore viral infections out of my finger. With my teeth (I'm not joking). Then I did some research and learned that I'm not supposed to dot hat. FFFUUUU- . Yeah.

Look, it's time to rant. About Formspring.Me.

Three weeks ago, even two, I suppose, if anyone had asked me if I'd heard of formspring I would've slapped them and told them that I never spoke of that one weekend in Vegas, because that's my default response for when you lot start babbling gibberish. You're all fucking nuts, so I have to do so quite often. No one questions it, interestingly.

To move on, I'd never heard of that shit. Then this one chick got one, Nicole Papineau, or at least she's the first I remember. I was talking to a dude who mentioned it, and said she always links it blah, blah, blah, we then went on to discuss more manly things. Such is life. Anyway.

So a week later, fucking EVERYONE has one. Stephanie. Tarra. Eddie/Mark/Dibs was going to, but I told him not to. Savior moment, I had a soul (it was the jazz, bro. Don't give me that look.) And now my friend Austin Burrel has one, Stephanie's gnome of a boyfriend (I kid, now stop yelling at your monitor) has one, I mean, HELL, peeps. What's come over you?

I get formspring. It's really easy. You get the chance to have anonymous people ask you all kinds of questions about your sex life, and you don't even really have to deal with them. That someone asks is enough, and your ego is fed. It's simple, it's vain, it's STUPID.

FUCK Formspring.

Also, be sure to ask me anything... in the comments, because I have a brain and so do you lot. But if you all go anon I'm going to laugh my ass off. Then be sad. D:

ADDENDUM TIME! :D

If you lot want to read this, it's going to pretend to be a little decent, ya know?

I hate formspring for more, I think. Not just for what it is, but for what it /isn't/. Bear with me for a moment.

I blog for a variety of reasons, chief among them that I get to be an arrogant bastard and you lot are too busy laughing to argue (I hope. Really, I hope this is still entertaining.) Also up there, though, after feeding my ego and getting chicks, is what it encourages: writing. And since you have to write about /something/, it encourages thinking.

I make it no secret that I hate stupidity. I have no problem with those who are mentally retarded, or have a legit excuse like that, but people who let themselves be stupid just pisses me off. Really, it does. They have plenty of brain to use, and they let the miracle of nature that is grey matter just rot in their heads. That pisses me off. Endlessly, it makes me rage. RAAAGEEE!

Formspring doesn't make you think. It makes you answer questions. "But Anthony," you say, after admiring my likeness, "couldn't that be a good thing? Couldn't formspring.me be a vehicle for making people question their beliefs, or challenge themselves? The anonymity could help people ask things they don't have the guts to do in person, as well."

Those are two separate problems I have with formspring.desperateho, and as such they get two separate paragraphs, respectively ordered.

Yes and no. The emphasis in that question is /could/. Yes, formspring.bloggerisbetter /could/ be a vehicle for deep thought and challenging questions. It /could/ be home to interesting debate, where a person is forced to defend themselves against a slew of inquiry. Let's be honest, though. It can be, it always will have the opportunity to be a home to deep thought, but it never, ever will be. It's human nature, I've ranted about it before. Though in this case, it's not a deep, interesting thing, the polar opposite: formspring.notforthosewithbrains will never, ever be home to deep thought because the people who inhabit it let themselves be stupid, and are as such incapable of said intelligent thought.

Also, anonymity is a double-edged sword. While it can give people courage, it's more often used as an excuse to dodge consequences for your actions. Imagine how much you could get away with if you couldn't be detected by anything. You were, effectively, invisible, untouchable, and security alarms didn't work on you or what you were holding. You would turn to theft, and you know it. Such is anonymity. That same indetectability, but on the interwebs. As such, on the interwebs it's used for general douchebaggery (and theft, to be honest. 4chan is probably responsible for more than a few thieveries.)

So what we're left with is a haven for douchebaggery and sex references. That's it. You go on a chick's formsping.idiocy, you see a few dozen questions about her bra size, and the rest are about sex. That's it. Douchebaggery is more limited, but it's there. Less so, but it's there. In summary, then, I hate formspring.fakevirgin for being a haven for idiocy and immaturity.