[friendociate]

What is SPAM? I'm sure you think you know (in which case you're probably skipping this--TL;DR--and going ahead and posting 'what you think it is), but I'll tell you ...

In 'the early days of The Internet,' when Usenet administrator Richard Depew inadvertently posted the same message 200 times to a discussion group
(I'm not sure why they call it "SPAM," but my first guess is 'the inspiration from Monty Python')

Looking that up, I found one of Simon Whistler's explanations ...

... confirming the original inspiration.

I know that some say that SPAM is 'strictly an email thing'--that 'if you're not emailing, you're not spamming'--but now on social-media you're a SPAMMER if most of your posts are promotional links (rather than "heartfelt expressions, heartfelt responses to others' heartfelt expressions, etc.")

One way I balance that is 'only posting promotional links through my Buffer (a site that feeds posts to various social-media accounts on a schedule ... right now, I only use it on my Twitter; but I think you can also 'set up queues' for LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest etc.)

The original Spam is probably a portmanteau of "Spiced Ham," though they say it could be an acronym (standing for "Sizzle, Pork, And Mmm" or maybe "Something Posing As Meat" or--@Viastra tells us--"Special Processed American Meat").

That's a wordroot for SPAMMED SPAMMING SPAMMER SPAMMERS SPAMALOT

[Mika]

Spam is posting the same message multiple times in a short time. sadly, this is not the final definition. It also depends on person-to-person. I was once banned on a forum for spam. In my whole life, I have never done spamming.,

[friendociate]

Spam is posting the same message multiple times in a short time. sadly, this is not the final definition. It also depends on person-to-person. I was once banned on a forum for spam. In my whole life, I have never done spamming.,

I was kicked out of YouTube for a form of SPAM ... just one or a few videos I posted, but they were---not the kind of videos people go to YouTube for.

It's more like 'an umbrella term for "the type of content that people feel there's too much of."'

[Mika]

The original mean of Spam is posting too much, in a short time, right?

[friendociate]

The original mean of Spam is posting too much, in a short time, right?

Sort of.

I mean---originally, yes; but today it might be--if you only post once, but your post is 'a repetition of what dozens/hundreds of others write'--your one repetition might count as 'another repetition in that sequence of SPAM'---

which is why I hate it when dozens of people reply to a praying Facebook-post with nothing but "Amen" ... I mean---I know you're 'meaning' that "Amen" 'at the same time as the first "amen"-response,' but that's why Facebook has the 'reactions' beneath every post! After the first amen, you shouldn't respond except to add "something" to the response (like maybe 'an answer to the prayer'); right?

[Viastra]

What is SPAM?
The term SPAM dates back to WWII (World war 2) and was used to refer to Special Processed American Meat, created by a UK general, and it stuck.

SPAM is unsolicited communication normally distributed in mass or bulk via email, SMS, social posts, or automated telephone pitches. However, SPAM can be one email that the user decides to label as SPAM, which will have the mail provider label the sender and its domain as SPAM.

[friendociate]

... The term SPAM dates back to WWII (World war 2) and was used to refer to Special Processed American Meat, created by a UK general, and it stuck....

Is that written somewhere, or are you just remembering it?