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Many peoples' personal weakpoint: Listening too much to what other people think about them. This website has all the attributes to become a viral Facebook/Twitter hit, and it's clearly been designed to achieve this. But why not give it a miss, and focus on what you're doing in your life instead of on what other people think of you. Especially when they don't even have the courage to say it to your face.
You should write that on the creator's failin.gs.
In the old days of LiveJournal (decade ago) there was some brutal honesty meme which was supposed to be 100% anonymous. I made like 50 (exaggeration) different surveys and then made 50 different "private" posts of the link to each individual friend. Of course to everyone it looked just like a friends-only link and they assumed everybody was going to the same anonymous /aggregated survey. I told them all pretty quickl…
And was it an issue?
Then I realized my profile was at failin.gs/profile/dan. And they automatically picked up my gravatar. Yikes.
Deleted the account and rejoined with something more obscure....
I think most people are subject to being categorised one of two ways.
CATEGORY 1 (Confident Achievers): Largely oblivious to their own flaws (This won't easily help them because they'll challenge the answers). If the truth does break in it can be very painful for this type of person.
CATEGORY 2 (Reflective Thinkers): All too aware of their own flaws (And this won't help them; it will only make them feel more insecure).
I'd have to admit to being in the second category, and wouldn't for a second believe it's superior to the first (just different).
Which category are you, or are there more categories?
Signed up to have a play around, and was happy because for once I managed to get the "dan" username. Hooray! Then I realized my profile was at failin.gs/profile/dan. And they automatically picked up my gravatar. Yikes. Deleted the account and rejoined with something more obscure....
In the old days of LiveJournal (decade ago) there was some brutal honesty meme which was supposed to be 100% anonymous. I made like 50 (exaggeration) different surveys and then made 50 different "private" posts of the link to each individual friend. Of course to everyone it looked just like a friends-only link and they assumed everybody was going to the same anonymous /aggregated survey. I told them all pretty quickl…
Does this darling girl know that you did this? And was it an issue?
As I said, there was nothing sinister in the questions, and they all knew me well enough not to be surprised by a little surprise sneakiness.
In the old days of LiveJournal (decade ago) there was some brutal honesty meme which was supposed to be 100% anonymous. I made like 50 (exaggeration) different surveys and then made 50 different "private" posts of the link to each individual friend. Of course to everyone it looked just like a friends-only link and they assumed everybody was going to the same anonymous /aggregated survey. I told them all pretty quickl…
No sneakiness here! While we track visitors and users in order to look out for abuse, this data is not and will not be made available to profile users.
I create 20 accounts on your service. I put my picture on all of them. I send out a different link/profile to each one of my 20 friends and track which one went to which person.
I then compare notes to see who said what.
Note that it's also really easy to do this using a URL shortener service that keeps track of times clicked, user agents, referrers, and IP addresses:
By using the timestamps you provide for the comments, I can tell which of my friends most likely made each comment.