to yourself Do you ask questions and are you looking for someone to answer?the one who gives detailed answers to the questions asked…

The site, which is the source of a lot of joke material, will be completely closed for the next few days. What brought him to this day?

The birth of Ask.fm was shaped by the rise of anonymous communication platforms that became popular in 2010.

People, share ideas or participate anonymously in Q&A interactions At the time, they were using platforms like Formspring. Later, a team from Latvia developed an idea, thinking that such platforms should become simpler and more fun.

team, people anonymously He designed a social network where he could ask questions and get answers. Their goal was to both provide interaction and contribute to people’s entertainment.

The social media of the period was more suited to these ‘entertainment’ elements.

In this period when the internet is only just taking shape Mark Terebin, Ilya Terebin, Olegs Korablevs, Klavs Sinka and Valeris Visnakovsthey wanted to come together and set up a new entertainment platform. Although Ask.fm is widely believed to belong to Turks, the company’s headquarters were in Latvia, but strangely ask.fm was not very widespread in the West.

Ask.fm It had a minimal design. After creating an account, users could ask questions and receive answers from other users anonymously or by providing their identity information. The site, which started broadcasting on June 16, 2010, initially started to become popular in Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries.

Later it spread worldwide.

Ask.fmIt achieved rapid growth, especially in 2011 and 2012, and became a global social media platform. In 2013, the number of users exceeded 65 million. Although the platform, which is widely used among young people, did not initially have such a purpose, over time it has led to an increase in the number of harassment and bullying incidents.

Criticism of the platform gradually increased as a result of these events. In 2014, the company It was acquired by a company called IAC. This new management had improved security measures to prevent cyberbullying and anonymous harassment on the platform. But the site has long lost its former popularity.

Ask.fm has decided to cease all its activities as of December 1, 2024.

The basis for this decision was the significant decline in the user base and the platform’s inability to meet the needs of today’s social media users. Platformhas stopped user registration as of October 24, 2024.

The platform, which gained a lot of momentum in the beginning, made its name known with some bad events and the bullying He gradually parted ways with the Internet community due to the reasons given to him.

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