What Exactly is SPAM?

The internet and electronic messaging is a term used to designate unsolicited bulk electronic messaging and communication.

 

Very well said Berg! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and knowledge about it.

 

Open your Twitter page and you will see spam.

 

Spamming is anything that confuses the user.Stuffing and repeating post to manipulate ranking is a way of spamming.

 

Spamming is posting useless stuffs.

 

Any spam messages you receive are quarantined for five days in a Spam (Cyrus/Webmail) or Junk E-mail (IU Exchange) folder in your account. After five days, the spam service deletes these messages automatically.

 

spam means using the techniques which is against the rule of SEs.
As showing the different content to user and SE and keyword stuffing.

 

Instant Messaging spam, known also as spim makes use of instant messaging systems. Although less ubiquitous than its e-mail counterpart, spam is reaching more users all the time. According to a report from Ferris Research, 500 million spim IMs were sent in 2003, twice the level of 2002. As instant messaging tends to not be blocked by firewalls it is an especially useful channel for spammers.
One way to protect yourself against spammers is to only allow messages from people on your friends lists. Many email services now offer spam filtering (Junk Mail) and some instant messaging providers offer hints and tips on avoiding email spam and spim