On Friday a news story/rumor blew up across Twitter and other social media sites claiming that the founders of Formspring.me, a popular Twitter and Facebook plugin that allowed people to ask questions of the user, had created the site not to satisfy the Internet’s vanity but to instead cull user information that would then be publicly displayed to, presumably, “teach people a lesson.” That lesson being that Web designers are dicks, we guess.
But quite a lot about the story was fishy, not least of which was that no major news …