Social networking and how to make money making new friends

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What are social networks?

Social networks focus on the building and verifying of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Such services offer various ways for users to interact, such as chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, discussion groups, and so on.

There are hundreds of social network services now available online. Some of the most well known being MySpace,
Friendster and Facebook, YouTube and others.

By 2005, MySpace, was reportedly getting more page views than Google, with Facebook, a competitor, rapidly growing in size.

Social networks connect people at low cost, usually just the price of an Internet connection. This is beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand their contact base. These networks can act as a customer relationship management tool for companies selling products and services. Companies can also use social networks for advertising in the form of banners and text ads. Social networks can make it easier to keep in touch with contacts around the world.

Most social networks are currently free to join and maintain membership. Companies such as MySpace and Facebook sell online advertising on their site. Since they are seeking large memberships, charging for membership would be counter productive. Sites are also seeking other ways to make money, such as by creating an online marketplace (Facebook's Marketplace) or by selling professional information and social connections to businesses: such as LinkedIn.

A social network's member serves a dual role as both a supplier and the consumer of content. . Revenue is typically gained in the autonomous business model via advertisements, but subscription-based revenue is possible when membership and content levels are sufficiently high.

Recently a new breed of social network marketing companies has arisen that offer anyone the chance to make money simply by a combination of joining, blogging, adding comments to other member's sites, and referring new members. These sites are free to join although some have added benefits as an upgraded member. In addition they are rapidly becoming great places to advertise at low rates. Therefore individual marketers as well as small businesses can take advantage of advertising to the memberships of these services.

Social Networking Sites That Pay You

These are sites that pay you for a combination of referrals, blogging, commenting on other peoples profiles, playing Arcade games and more. They all encourage you to build friend lists. A great way to network.

Yuwie: Yuwie.com - Make Money Online. Free Money. Get Paid Online to Have Fun! The First Social Networking Website that PAYS its Users!
Lazzeo: Lazzeo - Make friends and earn cash from your profile.
The Winning Community: The winning community. earn money. social network. All new users get $5 added to their account.
Rotatrix Friends Network: Get paid to do about everything, blogging, commenting, and playing Arcade games.
Zubby-New Social Networking Web Site - Zubby.Com: Zubby is a new social networking site allowing friends to share information, images, and more... - networking friends finding friends share photos free blogs journals blogging rate pics and images join groups forums online social networking free classifieds
Do Stuff - Get Paid! NaRpLe.com (Powered by phpFoX): Do stuff and get paid. Blog, comment, refer, make new friends and more.
Gizter: A social networking site for all your gadget and gizmo friends.
Zion5 - Making money online: Helping you make money online using a community of like minded individuals.
Yagatta.com: Social Network for profit and more.
BIZZY BLOGZ COMMUNITY: Find old friends or classmates and meet new friends worldwide as you network, share your photos, create blogs, business chat, chat rooms, movies, music, message boards and a whole lot more at BizzyBlogz.Biz
Friends For Cash The Best Social Network in the World: The name of this site says it all.
FriendsWin.com Social Networking that pays you back!: Social Networking, MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, FaceBook, Orkut, make friends, make new friends, get paid with friends, social network commissions

Not the only way

The links entered in the above link area are not all inclusive to sites such as these. Also you can make money in a variety of ways from all social networking sites.

There are also social networking sites for writers. Indeed Associated Content can be considered one of these. There are some writer's social networking sites available also and as these are explored they will be added here.

There are many other ways to make money with MySpace, Friendster and Facebook among others. You can talk about almost anything in your blogs there and Facebook has just added several applications that can help you as an entrepreneur.

In addition many of these sites offer paid advertising and because of their reach they are a great source for advertising.

In the next set of text links there are some really innovative social networking sites that you may want to explore.

More innovative social networking sites

myLot: myLot is all about starting and responding to discussions and uploading photos. It is all based on contributing content and although you can build a friends list you don't get paid for doing so. It does however help in getting your discussions commented upon.
Apsense: Make new friends and earn advertising credits.
Traffic Era - time to connect.: A free traffic generating system built on a social networking backbone
Keith Stieneke @ Qassia: This is my user profile at Qassia, the hottest site on the net right now. Qassia helps you build incoming links to your websites. You can contribute articles to them to earn credits to advertise your sites.

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Feb 28, 2009 @ 12:13 am

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sarah sarah Feb 2, 2009 @ 11:06 am

stay away from gather.com. They promise the world but never deliver. The points and earnings have gone way down and their customer service and interaction with members is virtually non existent. They had a good thing going with a group of members managing the site but dropped the program due to what some suspect was financial hardship. Membership has gone down, folks are looking elsewhere and gather lost the chance to keep and grow a site that would have made facebook look like a preschool. Too bad they can't get the oldsters back. Their friendly manner and positive ways made the site work. Now, it's full of back biting characters who post nothing and hang out giving gather nothing but clicks.

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sni-report sni-report Feb 23, 2008 @ 6:20 pm

Thanks for sharing, you've got a lot of useful content with resources. I'll be adding your url to my squidoo homepage: http://www.squidoo.com/socialnetworkingindex

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All of these social networks have blog capabilities and I thought I would present some of them here. This first one is from my Yuwie blog Keith Stieneke Says.

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