Most of my Formspring friends were jerks?

From 2010-2013, I frequented a website called Formspring. Formspring.me (Later known as Spring.me, which sounds like a porn name), was an ask and answer site. People would make profiles, and users could ask other people questions. Users could also ask questions anonymously, I don't remember if non-users could do that as well, or if it was strictly people who had accounts. Formspring later died in 2014/2015, and joined up with a dating site called "Twoo", which my spam program always tells me is a harmful site. Ironically enough, Formsprings competitor, Ask.fm (Which I didn't really like, or use), is still around.
I had found out about Formspring, from Yahoo Answers. I found someone interesting on there, and saw they had a Formspring. We ended up becoming friends, and I was introduced to a few of his friends as well!
Unfortunately, my friend, Jye, vanished off the Formspring. I never found out if he just moved on, or if something bad had happened to him.
I met many interesting people on there, however, many of them turned out to be jerks. I stopped talking to most of them. What's upsetting is, I was rather close to a few of them.

It's  silly to talk about stuff like this, but I think it's the experience, and the story time, that can be entertaining, quite possibly.

1. Teri Pterodactyl - One of my mutuals with Jye, Teri, was always so rude. I ended up cutting ties with her. Since she thought an image I posted was unacceptable, even if I was gay. Like what.. it's an innocent picture of two girls with a birthday cake, maybe it's YOU whos mind is in the gutter? Post

2. Mystique - I think my friend, Mystique, was the hardest one. We were really good friends, and I always got so excited talking to her. But she started getting rude, and homophobic. See the Mystique Series.
Two years ago, she messaged me on Tumblr to see how I was doing. I responded, but she hasn't gotten back, I don't think she uses Tumblr often. lol I wouldn't mind if she tried being friends again, that was already years ago, many things have changed.

3. Tish? - I don't remember her name, but it was something like Tish. I thought she was cool, but she wasn't very responsive. I'd ask her questions, and like her posts, but she wouldn't do the same. I even made a comment about how she doesn't seem to be my friend, and she liked it, but said nothing, so I just didn't bother anymore.. no need to be friends with someone who doesn't care.

4. Outer Spacer - Spacer had deleted his account, but I found an old post by him that I hadn't seen before. He told me he thought I was annoying, somehow I missed this response when his account was active. I was surprised! I wouldn't have talked to him at all if he thought I was annoying, I would have said bye bitch! Shame he deleted his account before I saw it, I would have slapped a ho! He was rather bitchy in general, I could have said that to him!

5. Ronan - We were really good friends, we talked about everything, and he was really funny too. But once Formspring was over, we didn't really talk much anymore. But I felt a distance between us on facebook. He eventually unfriended me, which I thought was rude since we were so close at one point! In this case, it's not rude, it's just upsetting that someone you were close to, just kind of vanishes.

6. Danger Noodle - Was a seemingly cool dude on formspring, but he was actually a slab of homophobic garbage on Facebook. He thought being gay was a choice, when I explained to him, that it wasn't, he continued to tell me it was. Then posted a link to a Christian website, that literally came up with opinions as to why being gay wasn't genetic. It was not research, just opinions. So I blocked him faster than a prostitute comes on a Saturday night. Blog post
I saved what he wrote, maybe I'll make that a blog post!

7. We'll call her H - I thought I got along well with H. I did notice that she'd unfriend people on Facebook, that were from Formspring. I was glad that I hadn't gotten deleted! That was, until much later. H didn't like that I didn't really like the word "Gay", I prefer to use other words (I have since grown out of that, and don't have a problem with the word gay anymore.). She also made a comment asking if I had a problem with the term partner, to refer to a gay couple. I said I don't like it, I find the term partner, to be demeaning. Like gay people aren't good enough to straight people, (Like straight couples are boyfriend/girlfriend or husband/wife, but gay people are "partners". It feels weird, like lgbt aren't good anough, and I don't like it.) . She'd get mad at me if I was hating on straight people, but she also thinks it's okay for black people to be racist towards white people... (Oh, the irony!) [Also, hate cannot be fought with more hate!]
One day I just noticed she unfriended me, but hadn't unfriended my other account on facebook, so I did the favor for her! I'm rather glad I'm not friends with her, I don't want to be friends with a hypocrite.

8. Next up is Double Danger - DD and I didn't always see eye to eye, but he was still pretty chill. (I'm pretty sure he was a very slight homophobe)
For the most part he was fine, until a few months ago. I posted a seemingly innocent post on Facebook, about the goddess herself, Daisy, from the Super Mario franchise. I said she should have a game of her own! A few of my friends liked my posts, and commented. However this one... was acting like I killed his family, and burnt down his village. He gave an angry react, and then proceeded to be hella rude about Daisy, and talking about how she's a terrible character. I don't care if you don't like a character, but like don't crap on other people's likes.. I'm also an intellectual, if you don't like something I love, like lets have an intelligent discussion as to why you don't like something.
Which he didn't, he just said how much he hates her, and even when I said "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say it", he pretty much just said he can do what he wants. Which is super rude, so I deleted all of the pictures he tagged me in, from 2012 (There were a lot of anime pics he put me in..) Then I unfriended him. Like he honestly acted like I just blew up the world, just because I liked a character, and he didn't. It was weird, and immature.

9. Danger Damon - was always cool, he's also good friends with D. After Formspring was gone, and we were on Facebook,everything was fine. But the last few years, he'd only post on political posts I made. Which is fine, it was always an opposing viewpoint, and I welcome other sides of the story... but what I found weird, was as follows.

• He lives in Europe, and he's talking about America? I just find that strange.
• He would only comment on my political posts, to the point where it was getting annoying..

Like why be my friend if you're just going to comment on the one political thing I post on Facebook a a year?
I unfriended Danger Damon and Double Danger at the same time, they're weird, rude, and annoying.

(For the record, I have plenty of friends on Facebook, that don't share my political views)

So that's how most/ half of my formspring friendships ended. I still have a few on Facebook, and the rest are cool.

Funny enough, I became close friends with someone named Van on Formspring, when it was dying. Now we're really close, and he's one of my online besties now.  I was telling him recently, that's he's one of the few good people from Formspring. lol

I've almost been sued on the internet TWICE!?

At the ripe age of 28, I can honestly say I've almost been sued twice online, so far...

The first offense -

I was 17, and I was really into message boards at the time. I was kind of friends with someone, who also had their own forum as well. One day, I put an advertisement for their message board on mine. I was contacted the next day by them, and told to take their advertisement down. I asked them why, they didn't tell me, they just said to take it down. I asked why again, they didn't answer me, and this went on a few times. If they had just told me why, I would have taken it down right away, just let me know what's going on. But because I didn't take it down, as I wanted to know why first, they banned me from their website! So I took it down, and then they told me that I didn't have the rights to advertise their website on mine. I thought this was outrageous, who doesn't like free advertising?
Because I was 17, and very petty. I went on dead message boards, and complained about them. Turns out, they also went on these very dead boards, and found out I was complaining about why they'd ban me on their site for free advertising. This is when they decided that if I didn't delete all the posts about me complaining about them, that they would take legal action against me. This was a middle aged person, ready to sue a teenager (With no money), because they were upset over my petty posts (on very dead websites).
I took the posts down, and I banned them from my site, and never talked to them again.
Did I go too far by complaining on random sites that were long gone? Yes, I shouldn't have done that in the first place. But I feel that they took it way out of proportion as well. Like why not just explain to me, why you don't want me to advertise your site on mine? Why is it so hard to explain something to me, so I can understand better? I've told this story to many people, and they all thought it was weird that this person didn't want me to advertise their site, on mine.

What's in the past, is in the past, and I've since let go. However, anytime I see someone with a similar username, I get freaked out that it's them. lol

The second offense - 

The second time this happened, was, in my opinion, much more reasonable. In fact, I hadn't realized that what I did, was not something you do (Since it's something everyone does)

I had a blog, where I just posted images of hot guys. (Which is now privated, because I don't use it anymore, but I also didn't want to waste time deleting a million posts, in case the event happened again.)
I was using this blog for maybe 2-3 years, after those years. I just got tired of posting pictures. Posting these pictures was a phase to me.
A year or two later, I got a message asking me to remove one of the pictures. They said I would have to pay them, if they wanted me to use the image, or they could even sue, or whatever.
I was emailed on an inactive email, so they sent the message one day, and I didn't read it until like 3 months later, when I conveniently used the email.
I messaged them back, telling them I removed the image, sorry for the wait etc..
They said thank you, and that was the end of that.

It wasn't until then, that I realized that, you really need permission to use images first. I had thought, it was okay to use an image, as long as you're not making money from it, but that's not the case. You can get into trouble for using anyone's image, even if you don't make money off of it.
I'm just glad that this person was understanding, and didn't get mad that I hadn't messaged them for three months.
Since then, I'm careful with what I post on here! I try not to use images that aren't mine anymore

 (Which is also why I'm re-branding the blog, with images all made by me!)

Something fishy is going on here!

Lets us time travel dear children, to 2012!

Once upon a time, there was a boy with ravishing beauty, he was looking for a job, and applied for a cool company that had fish in the company name. He got an interview on Feb 1st 2012, after the interview, he never heard back. He emailed them the next week saying that he was interested in the position and wondering if there was a result. A week later, still no answer, and so he emailed them again with a new resume.

After all the boy's hard work, they finally sent this to him.

"Hoe-bags"

"I am so sorry that no one got back to you about the interview. That was a mis-communication on our part. However, I regret to inform you that we have to deny your application to our internships. We are looking for the right interns for our programs, and we feel that your talents would be better served with another company. Best of luck to you and if we need an intern of your caliber in the future, we will be sure to contact you. Thank you for your interest in Xcompany."


The boy was petty, so he unliked their page on facebook, and made a Craigslist ad about it.
He felt there was a good reason to complain about the company, as they posted a job ad every other day for a WHOLE YEAR! That's fishy! It either shows that they can't keep people, and are desperate, or that they are just pulling people's "fins", and just want to sea "what's out there". Might I add, this was for a non-paid internship.

The following is the post I made on Craigslist.

Hello there. This is a little one two about the posting "Internship by X company."

Let me tell you, I've seen their ad for XCompany for at least 3 months. They keep re-posting their ad almost every other day! Something's fishy about this ad, no one should take the bait. Why must you post it all of the time? There is no need for that at all, what are you guys doing? Trying to lure in the big fish? I think not. I know for a fact that you guys have had plenty of talented people come in for interviews, you can't keep swimming upstream. Just choose someone already! If you can't find the right fish in the sea, then explain exactly who it is you want! This is a bad economy, and you guys are lucky to get at least one person interested in an internship! What are you doing? Trying to get a home-run? Just choose someone that's nice, and knows what they're doing! If you keep posting your ads, you just look like a clown-fish and that's not very good for a company. It just shows everyone that you can't make good decisions for yourself, it also says that maybe it's not a good idea to even apply.
What you guys are doing is just like asking someone if they want ice cream, and when they say yes, instead you start eating it right in front of them!

If you ask me Xcompany should be called BLOW-FISH, because I think they are trying to get things by the people who answer this ad! (Like get people's information and stuff)

Xcompany, I have two words of advice for you.

1. Choose someone already, and don't continue with this crazy charade of asking hundreds of people! Stop baiting everyone. Just choose someone already so everyone else who is looking for a job that will actually accept them, can get a job they will actually get. Having your ad posted a million times just makes them go for your ad instead of an actual employer who will value them, they'll just end up getting knocked to the curb. In which their other opportunity will be out the window like a fish with wings!
2. Don't bat yourself in the eye! :O

LOVE- Someone who really needs a job!


EDIT: They've been posting their ads since January 2012, it's already SEPTEMBER 2012 and they are still posting ads!!!

EDIT 2: It's Almost Januray 2013 and they still post.

The young, devastatingly beautiful boy was me. This was my story! I hope you liked it, it was really fun to make all of those puns back in the day!

Since the company has "fish" in the name, I wanted to make as many puns as possible!

Note: As of 2019, they still post job ads looking for non-paid interns. I was reading some reviews from people who worked there, turns out 95% of the people that work there are non-paid interns. It's a Full-Time, non-paid internship, where people are basically working for free, and it's a shame they haven't been shut down for this.