Flutterby™! : LinkedIn is a virus

Matt Haughey: LinkedIn is a virus:

With three clicks, I (accidentally) asked 1138 people to connect on LinkedIn using their import feature. Goddammit, I hate you LinkedIn.

Back in the days of MySpace, I thought "this is kind of a way to do virus propagation semi-safely". Now "social media experts" are urging people to cleanse their Twitter and Facebook presences of social updates and turning them into mechanisms for passing around the latest corporate-created instance of someone slapping some text over a stock photo.

I also recently Googled my name and discovered that the number of mentions is way way down, which is probably mostly related to Google becoming smarter about killing off spam blogs.

It seems like the weblog revolution unleashed this bad idea propagation network, and as people got a handle on that (and the barrier to entry was high) LinkedIn and similar started to take up the slack.