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Meet Formspring’s Official iPhone App. (It’s Kind of a Big Deal.)

Posted by sandosh on September 13th, 2011

Today, we’re thrilled to launch the official Formspring app for iPhone and iPod Touch, available for free download today in the App Store. With the Formspring app you can respond to friends on the go, ask questions, and even share photos to get your friends’ responses to just about anything, from anywhere. Infographic The app may just be the biggest thing to happen to Formspring since our original launch just under two years ago. Let us tell you why.

First, let’s get some basics out of the way. Yes, you can smile responses in the app. Yes, you can change your profile photo using the app. In essence, it’s the Formspring experience you know and love on the go.

But we didn’t want to just give you Formspring and make it mobile; we wanted to provide you with new features, too! Formspring photos are brand new and a huge part of what makes the Formspring app fun. You can respond with a photo. You can ask a question with a photo. You can respond to a photo — with another photo! We’ve found that a simple question like ‘What are you up to this weekend?’ can be completely transformed with photo responses. And starting a conversation on Formspring with a photo couldn’t be easier.

Two other features that make the Formspring app awesome. The first is notifications. You’ll get notifications as soon as a new question, response or smile comes in, so you’ll know instantly when Taylor Lautner, Incubus or your best friend has asked you a question. Secondly, the app allows you to find friends more easily, since you can send questions to contacts on your phone who might not be on Formspring yet.

To Formspringers who don’t have an iPhone or iPod Touch yet, don’t fear. We’re giving away four iPod Touches on our Facebook page this month (enter here). And we have other options to get Formspring on the go as well.

We’re just getting started with mobile. We’re excited to share the first version of our iPhone app and look forward to giving you even more ways to access Formspring. Let us know what you think!

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b.nijhoff 35 pts

The app really looks good I just downloaded it, and it works really great. Thanks for sharing this article!

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JoshSpark 5 pts

BlackBerry app ?

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psycholagny 9 pts

<rant>

Android wipes the sidewalk with iPhone, iPad, iThis, iThat, I used to be a big Mac user in the nineties before they got borged by AT&T and started turning into a company I actually began to hate worse than Microsoft. And though I have serious reservations about Google too - this age of mega- and meta-corps is causing companies and their boards to have the wealth nearing that of entire nations, which can only lead to bad things!

At least Android is a free platform and IMHO it also works better and its various slabs tend to cost less. In short, I'd use Formspring lots more if it had a Droid app. (Though FS is a bit confusing. And for some reason no one ever smiles at me, probably for the tl;dr factor...plus I can never tell if my questions are for the site at large or are getting read just by followers/'friends'. I don't 'tweet' stuff here so tend to write whole paragraphs, which seem to be just too much for anyone to handle anymore.

Just occurred to me, no wonder no one writes longer posts than 2-3 sentences, or even just an incomplete phrase anymore: they're using slabs to do everything with now instead of laptops or bigbox computers. And now that I have my own Droid, every time I use it, the stuff I write looks like someone else wrote it since it's way too brief. Yes, prolixity can sometimes be irritating too, I understand, especially for people who only net on slabs(!) but I'm mighty bored of tweet style commenting these days, and I think if I see the big F and T icons on one more site I'm going to take a deer rifle to my monitor and be done with this web stuff. Just kidding, I'm way too net-addicted, but I'm having far less fun with this new web that has to link everything to Farcebook and Twitturd than I did when sites were...their own domains...as the idea of 'domain' names suggests. Now it's all one big social netwank smushed together by the RSS gods. MAKE IT STOOOP! Or at least balance more...

And yet, now I'll totally contradict myself and say 'Droid app, please' so I can be one of those incomplete-sentence-writing twitterpated slabnetters.

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