A relatively new site called failin.gs is all about the anonymous feedback. The premise is that you sign up for an account, share it with as many of your friends that you can and let the feedback roll in. failin.gs asks the question, “What can I improve on?” It only allows for 145 characters for the response and I assume its so a person can go on a long tirade about you and probably it helps to fit the response in a tweet. The other part of this unique service is that people can see the feedback others have left for you unless you make your account private. Then you’re the only person who can see the feedback.
feedback can be categorized in three ways, “I knew this about me”, “I had no idea”, and “I totally disagree”. When these buckets are filled the feedback will be released for everyone to see, again, if you don’t have your profile private. People then can vote on responses with “agree” or “disagree”. Of course, this kind of anonymity can be abused with responses that are offensive and fake and so the service provides a way to trash responses, mark them abusive, but you can also reply to the flamebait.
failin.gs lets you bookmark individual profile pages of other users of the service and it lets you find friends through twitter and Facebook. As of this writing none of my friends use the service so I haven’t been able to try to leave any responses. Since this is meant for true personal improvement, there is no way to look at other random profiles. failin.gs reminds me of a similar service called formspring.me which allows people to ask you questions which you then may answer. Those questions can be from people you know or anonymous users. failin.gs focuses on the short and sweet of self-improvement.
