What do you call SPAM in social media?

If you come to the show, you’ll hear my rant about the new SPAM in social media.  We know what it is.  My question is – what do we call it and what can we do about it?

Oct 29th – Thursday after the show….

I was popping around when I should have been working and saw tidyTWEET – a spam and clutter filter for twitter.  I haven’t checked it out yet.  I’ll do that when I get some time.  But if any of you want to check it and get back to me, all the listeners will appreciate it, I’m sure.  http://tidytweet.com/?gclid=CM6R3abV4p0CFchn5QodygJe4g

Or let me know of any other spam filters you’ve found for social media.

In the spirit of Doc’s idea that in the VRM world we should be able to put our needs out on the web and have someone find them and fill them, here’s my dream.  I’d love a spam filter that caught all those linked in requests that ask me to recommend people that I barely know, or in some cases, people I know but really don’t want to recommend.  More on that at a later time….