About 50% of the questions are abusive and there’s a LOT of pornographic questions and hateful questions, e.g “Why don’t you Kill yourself” Which then encourages “fans” to defend the profile being abused. The most popular profiles seem to have their accounts set up so that they can be asked questions anonymously, which of course allows no accountability. Scrolling through the “Popular” stream gives you a pretty good idea of the sort of questions being asked of these online “celebrities”. The more likes and questions your profile has the more popular you seem. Why Is It Popular Amongst Teens?Īsk.FM seems to encourage users to feel as if they are a bit of an online celebrity being interviewed by their fans. You may have heard of Ask.FM as there have been some high profile cases of Teens committing suicide after being bullied on this platform. You can then answer these questions by text or via video in response. It is a bit like Formspring, which has also been the subject of some controversy around cyber bullying. It is a free app down-loadable to phones and other mobile devices through apps stores and accessible through P.C browsers, it is rated 12yrs+ on the Apple store, but 13+ on their Terms Of Services.Īsk.FM is a variation on a few similar types of Q&A social media apps that have been around for a few years, where you can set up a profile and anyone else with an Ask.FM profile can ask you questions. “People are starting to hate me!” What is Ask.FM?Īsk.FM is a question and answer social media site with over 52 million registered users and with over 20 million visitors per day based in Latvia. These questions were “rude and unsavoury” and as a result her daughter was embarrassed and mortified that they were designed to look as if they were coming from her. Apparently an Ask.FM account (not her daughters) was receiving anonymous questions that were set up to look as if they came from her daughter. Today I received a phone call from a Sydney mother of a Year 8 school girl asking advice about the Q&A social media platform Ask.FM in relation to an ongoing cyber bullying episode.
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