Talk:Social spam

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Merge with Social networking spam
Should this be merged with social networking spam? They seem to cover the same topic. JitteryOwl (talk) 22:06, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Did a review of both pages, and determined a merge was necessary. Because social spam is the more general topic, which social networking spam is a subset of, I copied over the relavent information from the social networking spam page, that hadn't yet been covered, and merged them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jbabiarz (talk • contribs) 18:54, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! JitteryOwl (talk) 19:32, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Rise in social spam
There are now reliable sources indicating a big jump in social spam this year. "Social Media Spam Up 355%" (in first half of 2013) And many news reports of big companies caught doing it. Samsung: Blackberry:  19 companies in New York caught:   --John Nagle (talk) 18:39, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

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