Have you heard of Formspring.me? Ask anyone 12-25 and they probably have.

For better or worse, the next big thing online is the anonymous overshare, and Formspring.me fits the bill. While the site is gaining in popularity amongst businesses, bloggers, media, and nonprofits (yes, we have one), where it’s really finding a stride is with teens, notorious for turning their backs on the biggest names in social media, and they love it.

“Evil, fun and addictive.” That’s what the media analysis site Gawker calls it. And they’re apparently not wrong, because there are more than 27 million people currently using Formspring.me. Basically, Formspring.me allows you to create a profile and then people can anonymously ask you questions.

For the people asking the questions, it’s an anonymous comment box that they can fill with pointed interrogation. For the people answering the questions, it meets countless narcissistic desires, allowing users to revel in their interests, wax poetic on a variety of topics, and bask in the feeling of being desired as some kind of authority on something. Beyond its confessional qualities, it also feeds that shout-from-the-rooftops desire, tying into your Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook accounts. Every time you answer a question, it will post to your feed. However, this will mostly annoy people on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, though, so try to avoid that.

While Formspring.me grows in popularity, it also gains in notoriety, being used as a place to randomly insult people without consequences, find out answers to the questions you don’t have the guts to ask in real life, and so on. In fact, recently, seven Pennsylvania teens were arrested for allegedly planning a “near riot” at their high school using Formspring.me, leading to the site being banned by local schools officials.

Of course, Formspring.me can be used to ask important questions and give meaningful answers…but, so far, it’s more fun than brawn. Want to try it out? Ask us a question!

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