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'Datakipple' refers to the process by which digital spaces become consumed by spam text and activity. These spaces can be abandoned or neglected, although datakipple encroachment can equally menace active accounts and networks. Datakipple also can also be seen as an effect of ineffectual spam guards, or as a result of link jacking. Whole networks and systems can be quickly overwhelmed by datakipple.

As in the origional definition, constant vigilance and action against the encroachment of datakipple is now considered a condition of online activity.

Sites particularly vulnerable to datakipple include, but aren't limited to:

• Otherwise activity free blogs, wikis and social networks, where moderators once sought to facilitate community and collaborative activity by allowing unmoderated comments
• Unvisited email accounts 
• Abandoned feedreaders, obscenely bloated with unread posts

Datakipple comes in many forms, including:

• Drifts of friend requests for unvisited social networks
• Partially furnished profiles containing out of date contact detail 
• Broken links to long ago moved or deleated pages 
• Direct messaging spam attacks 
• Foistware, bloatware and shovelware

JR Isidore explains kipple to Pris in Philip K. Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'

- Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers of yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more.
- I see.
- There's the First Law of Kipple, "Kipple drives out nonkipple." Like Gresham's law about bad money. And in these apartments there's been nobody there to fight the kipple.
- So it has taken over completely. Now I understand.
- Your place, here, this apartment you've picked - it's too kipple-ized to live in. We can roll the kipple-factor back; we can do like I said, raid the other apartments. But -
- But what?
- We can't win.
- Why not?
- No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time being. But eventually I'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.