Comments on: ‘Social’ spam http://webcoherence.org/featured-stories/the-social-spam/ Experiments with Coherence on the Web Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:25:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: G. Chomic http://webcoherence.org/featured-stories/the-social-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-10 G. Chomic Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:24:49 +0000 http://webcoherence.org/?p=203#comment-10 I accept the pitfalls some sites put you through for the added benefits of the networks - such as 'spamming' webcoherence on facebook (; - but certain behaviors can really annoy me. In particular, the number of mails I get from LinkedIn communities (that would require clickthroughs to read) per day is truly staggering. On the other hand, this has helped generate the whole realm of tools to use and manage this glut - I tag all my labels automatically in Gmail, click on a filter, and mark all those irrelevant pieces of junk read all at once. Few things are worthy of a clickthrough in this economy. Dammit did I just generate another post I have to write? I accept the pitfalls some sites put you through for the added benefits of the networks – such as ‘spamming’ webcoherence on facebook (; – but certain behaviors can really annoy me. In particular, the number of mails I get from LinkedIn communities (that would require clickthroughs to read) per day is truly staggering.

On the other hand, this has helped generate the whole realm of tools to use and manage this glut – I tag all my labels automatically in Gmail, click on a filter, and mark all those irrelevant pieces of junk read all at once. Few things are worthy of a clickthrough in this economy.

Dammit did I just generate another post I have to write?

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