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Name: Adam for web page design, not program
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: spam will kill these sites. The problem is that the majority of people see social media as a giant cash grab, and because social media tends to be open to everyone as a concept, this means it's open to the idiots who go around paying for Stumbles or Digg Exchanging or "submitting their valuable content".
In this case, social media is even more screwed because a lot of the same blackhat search engine spammers who continue to find it increasingly harder to get away with their stupidity morph into "social media optimizers" and simply update their old tricks to work with the new sites. The thing that most people don't realize about spammers is that they'll take advantage of any opportunity to spam anything; I even remember a case where a noted "SEO industry leader" keyword-stuffed a job site posting on someone else's job site and refused to acknowledge the potential for damage he could have caused a naive, but innocent third party.
Social media sites are the naive second party right now...they, by and large, don't seem to understand that there is a large portion of the web community that believes in the Screw-Me-Screw-You method of marketing and will do anything as a result to get ahead.
Mind you, this leads to another question: what do we consider "dead"? Do we consider "dead" complete obliteration off the map, or do we consider "dead" useless for all practical intents and purposes due to high levels of spam and monkey crap a la article marketing and directory sites?
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