The Latvian anonymous-question site, launched in June 2010, that took over from Formspring, reached 180 million users, and in 2013 became the subject of a British prime minister asking parents to boycott it after a series of teenage suicides. Bought and sold several times, it still exists, and the record notes that 'ask.fm' was the last place a teenager's name appeared before their parents learned what anonymity meant.
An earlier entry described Ask.fm as 'the Latvian Formspring'. The record notes this is accurate but incomplete: it was larger, lasted longer, and was the site that made 'anonymous questions' a phrase said on the news.
For whoever reads this in ten years: Ask.fm arrived in June 2010 and for about a month it was the only correct response to anything. Then it became a response to itself.
Seen in the wild on a school noticeboard — a teacher's handwritten poster with Ask.fm on it, followed by a smiley. Genuinely unsure whether this is the birth or the death.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
