It works this way: you get a share of money for each page view in the facility (the site of their money by selling ads). Furthermore, the more people visit your site, more page views you get a percentage. Yuwie then takes a step further with the references, allowing you to obtain a percentage of money from the activity of the friends you have invited to the service, along with his friends and people who have invited their friends. This goes for 10 "levels", so in theory there could be about 100,000 references, whether their friends and their guests will continue to invite others who use the service beyond the one month trial period.
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Does this idea sound familiar? It is a pyramid scheme. The problem with this, economically, it is untenable. The people at the top can not pay the amount promised, and people stuck on the bottom is not receiving the same benefits as those who have spammed referrals to their friends higher up the chain. Speaking of spam, even if you're there with your friends, you're bound to get an intolerable amount of spam from people you do not know that the service grows. The second most popular service so far has been specifically designed as a place to add other random groups of people to beef your bonus cash. Is this the type of network you want to be part of? At least the site is not asking for a fee - if I did that was illegal. And it should be.

The worst part is that Yuwie is almost a copy of MySpace, about two years ago, with nearly identical profile features - meaning that you're not actually get more than you would with a major social networks. That, and the ads are those wonderful that seizure-inducing flash Jiggle and, combined with the large click-through which stolen away from you while you're waiting for a funnel. MySpace does not even do that.

Nor is it an original idea - profit-sharing has long been a part of Web services. More recently it has spread in space with the video from YouTube and Revver new AdSense program, but even then, it is unlikely that the $ 10K one months Yuwie is promoting in his video introduction. The big difference however is that these services reward creativity and the traffic that brings in more games. In terms of social networks, sites like (the late) Fannect.com have offered their users the option to add Google AdSense to their profiles, while Facebook allows developers of third party applications on your ads canvas drop zone. There are also Capazoo, which enables users to exchange virtual tokens that have been "end" of other users with real money.

These ideas are going nowhere. People are eating up sites like Facebook and MySpace because they are an easy way to see and people to stay in touch in a more generalized form that e-mail or instant messaging alone. While it would be good to make money using these sites, I prefer to support people who have created them, and maintaining the new and useful features.