Digital Spam is like a disease. It’s the “Signal/Noise” principle. as the noise increases, it gets much more difficult to even detect the signal you were hoping for in the first place! I want to hit some quick areas spam has killed me, and hear from ya’ll.

• Twitter: I like Twitter. A little bit. I want to go through all the tweets on my front page, and rank them, scale of 1-5(high) based on how much I like the tweeter, and the content of the tweet:
  3, 5, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 5, 1, 2, 5, 1, 3, 3, 5, 2, 3, 1. Averaging a 2.3. My hope is to get it to a 3.6, I’m not sure how that’s going to happen. For an idea, see my last post
• Facebook: Now I love Facebook, but let’s do the same thing, except this time I’m *just* ranking how well I know these people.
  2, 4, 3, 3, 2, 4, 0, 2, 5, 0, 2, 0, 0, 5, 2, 3. Averaging a 2.1. I simply don’t know a lot of these users.
  and Notifications as well! a bunch of them have *nothing* to do with what I care about.
• Google Reader: No ratings now, just the simple fact that about 1/3 of the posts I read (and write probably) are recycled, or simply dull.

Now the solution. Whenever you sign up for a new service, your first question is always: “how do I maximize the information I take in.” The answer is: Unsubscribe, Unfollow, and Unfriend. Do what’s necessary to connect with the people you take information from, and if they’re not interested, hit the button.

Tags: facebook, social media, spam, Twitter, unsubscribe

Posted on Thursday, October 22nd in Best Practices.