Spamming

Description
When a user repeatedly shares content which is unwanted by other users. The content is often boring, advertisement or abusive. The receiver can judge whether he thinks something is spam or not. The spammer herself may not be aware of her behavior. The spammer is often a bot.

Examples
A Twitter user tweet about every-day activities such as riding the bus, sitting at work or going to the bathroom, approximately once an hour.

A Facebook user, Bob, gets a friend request from an other user, Alice. When he accepts her request, she repeatedly shares content which is advertisement e.g. for an online drug store. Alice is probably a bot, which is programmed to add as many friends as possible to share it's message.

Pros and Cons
This behavior is not very appreciated by other users. The spammer herself might not be aware of this. The application often want their users to produce a lot of content, but they also want to keep the majority of users happy. Spambots are generally unwanted, with the exception of companies using that method of advertisement.

Relations
This behavior might end up with users to hide or unfollow the spammer. During registration of a new user, one may prevent spambots to register having a CAPTCHA.

Attention Seeking, Boosting Content and Posting As Time Killing may be experienced as Spamming by other users.

Contributors
Created by Malin Mattsson.