Thanks for commenting. While I do respect your desire to reference Wikipedia, understand that the AOL Buddy List *was* the first social network of its kind. It was the first network that people used to engage and add friends with each other, and further — communicate and grow those relationships.

I am pretty confident in saying that AOL is around the top three (or four) networks, because of their AIM users. If I remember, 65M users supersedes Yahoo’s and Microsoft’s IM network.

Also, if you recall *wayyy* back in the day, circa AOL 4.0, AOL had a very easy to use online profile product and became very popular during the adolescent years of AOL. Recently, MySpace merely created their product from AOL’s (and I don’t blame them, either).

Now, getting back to the point of this entry, ALL social networks need to be aware of the Spam that exists on them and they should educate users to assist in reporting it properly, like I demonstrated for the Facebook Spam.

Thanks again for the comment!

~Joe

It’s not even listed on this list of social networking sites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

LOL, you know I’ve been called a flaming liberal, a cold neo-nazi, Marxist Communist among other things… so I am again going to rest with, “I hate everyone equally”

Anyhow, the new spam filter is working out pretty well. Their algorithm catches more spam and lets more ham get posted. We’ll see how it behaves over the next week when I roll down to AZ this week.

~J

Though I don’t disagree with your conclusion, I think spammers are trying to make their junk profiles seem more approachable to the male 18 - 30 demographic.

On an unrelated note, I did switch to a new spam filter on here, you might enjoy it and not get blocked. It beats Akismet.

~Joe