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Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.

Path is a well designed app with a singular purpose. For users who solely want to share with a small group of friends, and share everything with the whole group, it is very effective. And of course, it is wonderfully designed. Just.me isn't better or worse, it's just very different. Just.me is a messaging application, not just a sharing app.

We give you a list of suggested friends to connect with who are already on Path. We notify you when other friends of yours join Path.

We don't want to connect you with just anyone on Path. Without the contact list information, some of these features just don't work.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.

To be honest, I joined Facebook as an experiment. I accepted all invitations just to see how many people would ask to be 'friends' - it quickly overwhelmed my time to process even the invitations and requests, let alone to actually go there and do anything.

I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.

There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.

I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.