Why doesn't Yahoo Answers include a social media site anymore?

[oklatonola]

Yahoo IS a social media web-site , the fifth most popular in the world. The reason they closed the email chat rooms was pro ably because too much abuse was being posted or because of completion.

"...As of December 14, 2012, all public chat rooms on Yahoo! Messenger have been shut down as part of a series of features being changed/added/deleted. It is unclear whether there will be enough feedback from the user community to force a recanting of this policy.

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...Yahoo! has since closed down the chat.yahoo.com site (which is now a redirect to a section of the Yahoo! Messenger page) because the great majority of chat users accessed it through Messenger. The company is still working on a way to allow users to create their own rooms while providing safeguards against abuse. A greyed-out option to "create a room" was available until the release of version 11.

A recently added feature in Yahoo! Messenger allows users to connect with their Facebook friends through the messenger.

[edit] SPIM

Yahoo! Messenger users are subject to unsolicited messages (SPIM) and the problem remains unresolved. Blogs and websites addressing this issue are supportive of the chat environment, and writers genuinely want to continue using the service, yet express frustration about Yahoo's absolute failure to address spam and other related problems. User queries are met with forms and replies that Yahoo is "working to resolve the problem," yet there is no evident progress.[9][10] As of 2007 it is estimated that at least 75% of all users who use Yahoo chat rooms are bots.[11] Yahoo has introduced a CAPTCHA system to help filter out bots from joining chat rooms but it has done little to actually stop the problem and has only inconvenienced human users.[12]..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger