If only I had known...!

Have you ever wondered what other people really think of you? Neither have I! No, that's not quite true, actually, and I often wonder whether the course of my life might not have been very different if some well-intentioned and disinterested soul had told me how others perceived me and how, for example, I could avoid unwittingly giving offence. The trouble is, the people who know you well enough to give a valid opinion are, almost by definition, your family and friends. A fat chance of getting an honest answer from them!

Well, there's an app for that and it's called Failin.gs: 
It's a webapp that will let your friends and family anonymously post their issues with you so you can be aware of them without taking it personally.


Of course, Failin.gs isn't trying to incite an anonymous, personal flamewar against you. Once you create your profile and link it with Facebook or Twitter (if you want—you don't have to), you can send it to your friends to get personal feedback. As your friends type, Failin.gs will remind them to be kind and constructive rather than mean. You can then check your profile for new comments and sort them into different bins (I agree, I had no idea, and I disagree). 
http://lifehacker.com/#!5795477/failings-helps-you-improve-yourself-by-letting-your-friends-anonymously-tell-you-why-you-suck

It sounds a good idea but I don't think it would work in my case. I've got so few friends that I'm pretty sure I could work out who wrote the "anonymous" message. And then I would have even fewer friends!