Oct 30 2007
rkelley

Are Yuwie Serious?

By rkelley 99 comments

A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me if I knew anything about Yuwie. He signed up for the site and actually described it to me as “a social networking site crossed with a pyramid scheme.”

Apparently, the gist of the site is that they want you to refer as many people to sign up as possible. The more people that sign up, the more page views the site receives, and the more page views there are, the more banner impressions are delivered. Yuwie also shares the revenue they receive from ads, paying you ten deep for referrals (if you refer ten friends, you get paid for those ten referrals plus the referrals those people make, hence the “pyramid” structure).

Yuwie is currently reporting 214,094 total members, who are all, I bet, lazy asses. From looking at the site (it looks like a hastily put together piece of crap), I doubt people are signing up for “social networking” purposes. I wrote earlier how I’m not too fond of people trying to make a quick buck online without working hard, which is why I’m rolling my eyes at Yuwie. I haven’t tried the site out though, so if any of you have tried it out and have anything glowing to say about it, I’m all ears.

Why do people roll their eyes at traditional pyramid schemes, yet come across one on the Internet and suddenly think it’s a great Internet marketing strategy? I just don’t understand the mysterious allure of the Internet, how people think it’s where you go to get loads of money for virtually no work.

Anyway, like I said, has anyone tried out Yuwie? If so, what do you think?

  1. Iantrepreneur said on October 30th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    lol - I bet they are all lazy - people are tryin got earn a quick buck and that is it - look at the sprung of the million dollar wikis and now to onebuck wikis….they are springing up - and just to make a quick buck

    people these days just want to see 1000 and that is it as long as they have it then they dont mind, as for me I want to look for long time ongevity and will work at it as I have been doing so!

    YUWIE is a LAZY ASS! LOL

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  2. mubin said on October 30th, 2007 at 6:43 pm

    would. um. would you um lik to go out for dinner sometime?

    Yuwie is going to make me millions! just like agloco has made Johnchow millions.

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  3. michael webster said on October 30th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    The attraction to a pyramid scheme is a combination of some plausible business plan, which is not executed in reality, and the inability to count how many “friends” you really have.

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  4. Hustle Strategy said on October 30th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

    are you saying yuwie isn’t working or the members? either way it is a pyramid scheme.

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  5. LeGo said on October 30th, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    is there not something to names now a days. yuwie? wouldn’t that be a smelly ass?

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  6. Jeremy Steele said on October 30th, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    I wish people would stop thinking money grows on trees… the same people who sign up with services like that and believe they will get rich are the same fools who think Agloco was going to make them rich. Only 2 people at the top can by hummers - the rest are stuck with mere pennies.

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  7. SunEGrl said on October 30th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

    I signed up for Yuwie when it first came out, but I never really got anything out of it and doubt that I ever will. I really haven’t promoted it at all.

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  8. Yogesh said on October 30th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    I know a of a well known community site in India (backed by big corporations) which had more than 8000 registered members on the first day and just two stupid posts in their message board, I wonder why.

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  9. Amit said on October 30th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

    It seems to be just like a normal script installed and some fake members added up ;)
    They need to customise it and then promote it to get some starter results.
    Amit

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  10. CVOS man said on October 30th, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    A Yuwie Yuwie, oh baby now … yeah

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  11. Nathan said on October 30th, 2007 at 9:12 pm

    I was going to sign up, but yeah it just looks tacky. I’ve known about it for a few weeks.

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  12. Geordie said on October 30th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    Wow. Looks like a creepy avatar is requisite…

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  13. Chris Jacobson said on October 30th, 2007 at 9:52 pm

    I have a Yuwie account and I have no complaints. It’s a great networking tool.

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  14. Blog Contests said on October 30th, 2007 at 10:25 pm

    You know they are not working hard how?

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  15. Domtan said on October 30th, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    Looking at the site, by sheer appearance it does look like it was put together in 10 minutes with 2 minutes of break in between.

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  16. Domtan said on October 30th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    Just to follow up on this… as a user we haven’t actually tried it. But from what we’ve come across on the web, many people haven’t had much complaints as a member. Thus, appearince can be deceiving, sometimes.

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  17. JoeTech.com said on October 30th, 2007 at 10:49 pm

    I signed up, but that’s just because I’m a lazy bastard.

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  18. Jeremy said on October 30th, 2007 at 10:59 pm

    OK first of all I think a pyramid scheme is something you have to pay for to advance. Yuwie is free to join and its just like myspace.

    I am a member and have around 380 referrals. I made about $2!!
    Now if I had more direct referrals it would be a litte more.

    I would rather get paid to network my sites than not.

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  19. GeorgeB said on October 30th, 2007 at 11:09 pm

    No one seems to have realised that Yowie can be distilled to simply this - “you watch ads, we pay”. Who cares about the content - let the consumer get paid for ad watching. And if those at the bottom of the pyramid make little, so what.

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  20. Jeremy said on October 30th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    Yeah I was being sarcastic about the $2 btw.

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  21. Travis Cannell said on October 30th, 2007 at 11:35 pm

    I want money for nothing! And SERPs for free.

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  22. great008 said on October 30th, 2007 at 11:39 pm

    give me free money and so i may sign up!

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  23. Ginene said on October 31st, 2007 at 4:16 am

    It reminds me of Agloco. Alot of hype and nothing will come from it.

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  24. Nomar said on October 31st, 2007 at 6:38 am

    not going to try it

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  25. Gecko Tales said on October 31st, 2007 at 6:43 am

    The Internet is looking a lot like the late 1990s again where we are being bombarded with the next big thing. The only problem is that most of these “next big things” are only copies of other sites or don’t have any real value. Social Media does have value, but every single social networking site doesn’t.

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  26. Rich Gilchrest said on October 31st, 2007 at 6:58 am

    I joined Yuwie a couple of months ago. After signing up, I barely even looked at it before realizing it was crap. Never went back.

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  27. Abs said on October 31st, 2007 at 7:31 am

    Whats a yuwie? lol
    This site is a piramid scheme for sure.

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  28. safesurfer said on October 31st, 2007 at 7:47 am

    Yuwie looks like the Halloween version of facebook. Creepy!

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  29. Prestipino said on October 31st, 2007 at 8:17 am

    I signed up for Yuwie a few months ago just to check it out - good in theory (aren’t all pyramid schemes?) but definitely poor in execution. I think it’s interesting from the perspective of how a network can grow however. I made three personal referrals to Yuwie which in the past month has grown to 278 total referrals - seven levels deep. My earnings? $0.27 - when I saw that I nearly fell out of my chair laughing - not bad though for sixty seconds of work.

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  30. Farmer said on October 31st, 2007 at 8:23 am

    never been there…and never will. What I do find funny (aside for the Halloween theme) is that I would bet just about every, if not all, that dog on this craptastic site…have myspace accounts.

    irony.

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  31. 賃貸 大阪 said on October 31st, 2007 at 8:29 am

    “It looks like a hastily put together piece of crap” is the best line I have heard in a while.

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  32. Allyn Paul said on October 31st, 2007 at 8:31 am

    no myspace for me…I am over the age of 18

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  33. Tracy Robinson said on October 31st, 2007 at 8:33 am

    Been there, saw that, and decided I already have enough crap sites I’m signed up now that I am still paring down, so that one won’t go into my list of favorites, lol.

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  34. krillz said on October 31st, 2007 at 8:41 am

    nice Halloween design you got going. But that sound is getting annoying hehe :D

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  35. Rice Blogger said on October 31st, 2007 at 8:58 am

    wow..new theme

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  36. John M Weaver said on October 31st, 2007 at 9:52 am

    It looks pretty bad…Traffic numbers can only get you so far. If you don’t have a product you don’t have a solid business. The halloween theme is cool, but i’m missing the classic shoemoney design!

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  37. blogstheme.com said on October 31st, 2007 at 10:36 am

    arent these practices illegal?

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  38. Joeychgo said on October 31st, 2007 at 11:59 am

    Yeah — I agree

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  39. MyGoodFinds said on October 31st, 2007 at 12:34 pm

    I never liked opportunists. I wouldn’t even waste my time checking the site out. If I hear pyramid scheme or MLM, I go away as far as I could.

    SEO stuff, it’s hard work!

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  40. Rebecca Kelley said on October 31st, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    Haha, nice explanation.

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  41. Rebecca Kelley said on October 31st, 2007 at 12:57 pm

    Chris, can you give us a little more insight?

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  42. Rebecca Kelley said on October 31st, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    Aw, and here I was about to join…

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  43. Rebecca Kelley said on October 31st, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    I want my….I want my…I want my free money…

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  44. serge said on October 31st, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    you just boosted their hits with this blog, are you sure you aren’t in on this somehow?

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  45. King Jacob said on October 31st, 2007 at 3:51 pm

    Not really.

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  46. King Jacob said on October 31st, 2007 at 3:54 pm

    Another pyramid scheme, Yeh!

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  47. Neon said on October 31st, 2007 at 5:17 pm

    i think yuwie is probably the only social networking site that has popups and there are still people visiting.

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  48. John3 said on October 31st, 2007 at 5:43 pm

    Wow, tough crowd here! LOL

    Rebecca, may I take a stab at changing your mind about joining?

    I know I’m likely in an uphill battle but here goes…

    I guess I’m ‘pro Yuwie’, as I joined on Sept 3rd and have hardly slept a full night since. I have lightly promoted Yuwie part time and have been fortunate to have found a few people like me who are excited about it and are promoting it a bit.

    I won’t sugar coat it, I made $2.56 for the month of Sept. (Well most of the month as I joined 3 days in.) with a smallish, lighly active downline group. No doubt this will not impress anyone here and certainly not even myself. However, I have seen other members who had joined maybe 60 days before me and posted their results for a couple ‘pay runs’. Now that made me feel better to see the rate of the increases in their payout numbers over even 2 months, as their groups grew so did their earnings.

    Keeping this in mind I could see how with time and a little promotional effort the better earnings are certainly possible there. In Sept I had earnings from 3 of the five levels I had members on, and myself. As I write this I have broken my 9th level (Took me just 55 days.) and my total page views are up nearly 4 times. My fantastic sponsor has broken into the tenth level and can expect the highest percent of earnings there as Yuwie has structured it that way to encourage growth.

    My page views increasing 4 times is nothing spectacular, as not all my group are active. However, IF this increase can be sustained each month at that rate, it won’t be long that those who have put a little effort into this will see some decent progress.

    I believe that not only can the rate be sustained but it likely will rise some as the inactive members are now being made aware that Yuwie pays and will begin to get interested in what they might be able to do. This then becomes a word of mouth push to their warm market, and the ’snowball effect’ will pick up steam.

    In closing, I will admit that now there are many who will rail against Yuwie for any number of reasons as evident here, but if you could take an honest look at what it is and what it might become in the future - then I believe you will see it for what it is - a social networking site that happens to share a percent of their ad revenue with those who help it grow. Not everyone is interested in making it an income, but those who are may do well.

    The social network has been proven to be popular, no disputing that with the likes of MySpace, Facebook etc. Could offering a chance at earning a little pocket change while enjoying the social aspect be such a bad way to go? Yuwie grew to 100,000 members in 87 days - then doubled that in less than 30.

    So Rebecca, I would love to see you give Yuwie another look and would be thrilled to have you in our friendly group if you were to change your mind! It costs nothing to join, so if you decide it’s not for you - all you’ll lose is your time. I will be happy to answer any questions that I can, and try to find out those that I might not know the answer to.

    Expect Success
    John3

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  49. John3 said on October 31st, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    Wow, tough crowd here! LOL

    Rebecca, may I take a stab at changing your mind about joining?

    I know I’m likely in an uphill battle but here goes…

    I guess I’m ‘pro Yuwie’, as I joined on Sept 3rd and have hardly slept a full night since.

    I have lightly promoted Yuwie part time and have been fortunate to have found a few people like me who are excited about it and are promoting it a bit.

    I won’t sugar coat it, I made $2.56 for the month of Sept. (Well most of the month as I joined 3 days in.) with a smallish, lighly active downline group. No doubt this will not impress anyone here and certainly not even myself. However, I have seen other members who had joined maybe 60 days before me and posted their results for a couple ‘pay runs’. Now that made me feel better to see the rate of the increases in their payout numbers over even 2 months, as their groups grew so did their earnings.

    Keeping this in mind I could see how with time and a little promotional effort the better earnings are certainly possible there. In Sept I had earnings from 3 of the five levels I had members on, and myself. As I write this I have broken my 9th level (Took me just 55 days.) and my total page views are up nearly 4 times. My fantastic sponsor has broken into the tenth level and can expect the highest percent of earnings there as Yuwie has structured it that way to encourage growth.

    My page views increasing 4 times is nothing spectacular, as not all my group are active. However, IF this increase can be sustained each month at that rate, it won’t be long that those who have put a little effort into this will see some decent progress.

    I believe that not only can the rate be sustained but it likely will rise some as the inactive members are now being made aware that Yuwie pays and will begin to get interested in what they might be able to do. This then becomes a word of mouth push to their warm market, and the ’snowball effect’ will pick up steam.

    In closing, I will admit that now there are many who will rail against Yuwie for any number of reasons as evident here, but if you could take an honest look at what it is and what it might become in the future - then I believe you will see it for what it is - a social networking site that happens to share a percent of their ad revenue with those who help it grow. Not everyone is interested in making it an income, but those who are may do well.

    The social network has been proven to be popular, no disputing that with the likes of MySpace, Facebook etc. Could offering a chance at earning a little pocket change while enjoying the social aspect be such a bad way to go? Yuwie grew to 100,000 members in 87 days - then doubled that in less than 30.

    So Rebecca, I would love to see you give Yuwie another look and would be thrilled to have you in our friendly group if you were to change your mind! It costs nothing to join, so if you decide it’s not for you - all you’ll lose is your time. I will be happy to answer any questions that I can, and try to find out those that I might not know the answer to.

    Expect Success
    John3

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  50. GettyCash said on October 31st, 2007 at 11:16 pm

    I have seen payment proof from people who got paid from Yuwie.

    That’s interesting they do pay their members.

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  51. Dave C. said on October 31st, 2007 at 11:44 pm

    I signed up a few months ago on the word of a family member. I agree, its not a very well designed site and it had some major bugs that may have been cleared up by now, but overall, not really impressed. I haven’t logged in awhile and completely forgot that I had the account until I read this post. I’ll leave it on there on the off chance it actually turns some page views, more of a passive expirement than anything else.

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  52. lyricsreg said on November 1st, 2007 at 1:02 am

    I have to disagree. It looks fine to me. Nothing pleases you people

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  53. Thor Schrock said on November 1st, 2007 at 6:27 am

    I couldn’t agree more. People sit back and wait for someone to swoop in and give them a golden ticket and that is just not how life works.

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  54. Andrew said on November 1st, 2007 at 8:34 am

    10 referral levels is a problem. If it had 1 or 2, that would be perfect IMHO.
    The idea of a social network sharing it’s revenue is great.

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  55. John3 said on November 1st, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    Oops, double posted above - sorry.

    I wanted to mention that I broke my 10th level this afternoon while I was at work. This is the level with the highest percent of earnings: 30% of RSR (revenue sharing rate).

    “RSR x (Page Views/1000) x Level Percentage = Your Earnings”

    Look, I don’t know if I’ll make the big money here, but there is a decent chance if Yuwie is managed properly that more than a few will.

    Reading some of the comments, I am surprised that the readers of a money making blog are so quick to dismiss an opportunity so quickly. One comments:

    “It reminds me of Agloco. Alot of hype and nothing will come from it.”

    Let’s compare. Not being a member of Agloco, (But being somewhat aware of it’s structure, year long history and development) and correct me if I’m wrong, but have they paid out anything yet? Yuwie had payouts sent and received by those who qualified ($25 or more) in about 4 months of operation. And that takes into consideration that Yuwie pays Net 60!

    Now please don’t get me wrong, I’m not taking anything away from Agloco as they may just turn out to be the next big thing if you read around the web at all. But I’m just saying that by the time you get any payouts from them - you likely could build quite a nice group (6 full levels DEEPER) in Yuwie and have been earning from them for some months while your still working your Agloco business… No need to give up one to build the other! They are both ‘viral’ in nature and once you get a core group started, can grow with little or no help from you by the members in your group sharing the opp with their friends.

    Alright, I didn’t want this to sound like an ad so I’ll cut this off here, I just would hate to see so many opportunity seekers overlook something so simple as an earner just because it was that - simple. Especially those of you who frequent here with established money making blogs, a simple text link and quick comment is all it would take to build a group.

    At only 221,614 members you STILL have 1st mover advantage with Yuwie…

    Expect Success
    John3

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  56. Streak said on November 1st, 2007 at 11:49 pm

    One of my old sponsors is a member of Yuwie, and he’s really working the system. He’s a pretty savvy vet and he’s not making much yet, but he feels like it’s increasing each month and that it will be fairly residual soon enough. He has a ridiculous amount of referrals and his income has doubled each month he’s been a member, which still isn’t much money yet. I’m still relatively undecided.

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  57. worldfriendswin.com said on November 3rd, 2007 at 8:57 am

    yuwie is ok but i got something better

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  58. worldfriendswin.com said on November 3rd, 2007 at 9:01 am

    yuwie is good but this is better

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  59. worldfriendswin.com said on November 3rd, 2007 at 9:03 am

    it ok yuwie i like the other one better

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  60. Catherine L said on November 5th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    Most people who get involved in some time of pyramid scheme are lazy b…..ds looking to make a quick buck.

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  61. sidelko said on November 5th, 2007 at 7:03 pm

    I looked at it and decided to pass. I only know of one person who uses it, and she made a whopping 60 cents last month. up 3 times from her previous earnings.

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  62. Paul said on November 7th, 2007 at 3:27 am

    Some of the members are bots… generating testimonials and comments to real users

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  63. Amit said on November 7th, 2007 at 8:24 am

    But whats basically good about that site?

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  64. Amit said on November 7th, 2007 at 8:25 am

    Agloco is counted as a spyware by my AVG antivirus

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  65. Kris said on November 16th, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    A few things I want to say:

    I have been a member of Yuwie for a few months.

    It has cost me $0.

    I have actually spent less time on it than I did MySpace when I first joined MySpace.

    I referred only a few friends and now have almost 25,000 members below me.

    I have made hundreds of dollars and know people who have made much more than me. (Yes, we have seen actual money from Yuwie - not just told we were GOING to get money.)

    The site has had MANY upgrades recently and is a very well run site now and very easy to use.

    Yuwie ENFORCES no porn (even soft porn is prohibithed) and NO spamming making it a VERY enjoyable social networking site.

    Also, Yuwie has said over and over, this is not a get rich quick scheme. They are doing nothing illegal. You get paid because they have decided to SHARE the revenue they get from ads. Very simple, very easy, why not get a portion of the revenue you help the site make???

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  66. Jacquelyn said on November 28th, 2007 at 11:11 pm

    Yuwie, I don’t know, I think its a waste of time. I signed up as a place to network and how much would you really make anyway? 20 cents? A LOT of people are taking it seriously though. : P

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  67. Chanter said on November 29th, 2007 at 1:13 am

    Let’s just watch out for it, I must say ^.^ I’m a member and if you think “it’s easy to make a quick buck in there, NO.. as a saying said ” You always have to work hard onto something” and getting referrals is a HARD work to do which needs time.

    How could you say something is a scam or pyramid scheme when you dont even need to pay anything? And yeah its a social networking site, just like Friendster and Myspace.. you probably have either a Myspace account or a Friendster account ( I have too) and we all know we spend time there designing our layout, we blog, upload pics, and we invite our friends to sign up and these things we do keeps this sites more bigger and bigger and more susceptible to online advertiser and you dont even get anything?! Wouldn’t it be nice you earn from something you already do online? even a cent or a penny earned on Yuwie than being active on other social networking site without getting anything at all?! And its a networking business too for “serious” people and we all know business needs time. I got a friend who just started earning $2 the first months and guess what?? Now hr already recieves a payment or more than $100 last month. And I bet this month would be even better for him.All those HARD work paid off so we, members aren’t that lazy. As I said its a networking business site, every well knowned sites started from the very start; bulding up, advertising the site, getting members and be known. As all people didn’t actually learned to walk and talk haven’t we? As babies we started to learn to crawl then walk, speak few abc’s and learned to talk. See my point here? There’s a BIG difference between Yuwie to Friendster and Myspace ^.^

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  68. jhon said on November 30th, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    money for nothing and ur chicks for fwee (H)

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  69. jhon said on November 30th, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    does anyone here even know wat a pyramid scheme is? its just being thrown everywhere..

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  70. Dan said on December 3rd, 2007 at 10:15 am

    I’ve heard of yuwie and tried it. The problem is that it is first and foremost a way to make money, and secondly a social networking site. It has a terrible layout and from a networking aspect is terrible. Its a spam containing, spam generating machine.

    I use ww.SocialSomething.com

    They started out as just a social network, but now also pay their users for referrals and pageviews (no pyramid scheme though - more like metacafe’s producer rewards). However, they are still foremost a social networking site. There is very little emphasis on the money aspect. The site has a great web 2.0 design and boasts many features that facebook and myspace don’t even have.

    Give it a try: http://www.socialsomething.com (notice that this is not a referral link because i actually joined the site to network, not too make some money).

    Oh and PS: for those of you who are into making money, this site pays about 20 times what yuwie does.

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  71. Noel Schlachter said on December 26th, 2007 at 11:49 pm

    Let me tell you what.
    Stick with your non-paying social Networks or pay monthly fees for other so called money making networks and I will stick with Yuwie.
    There is nothing like it on the net. I have met some of the nicest people in the world at Yuwie. The fact that we get paid is just another benefit.

    Noel
    That SongBird Guy

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  72. Aarn Cook said on December 27th, 2007 at 12:52 am

    Hmmm, I signed up and I’m not a lazy person by any means. I operate several sites online as well as my main blog. I joined Yuwie near the end of September and have enjoyed it ever since. So sweeping generalizations does not an intelligent person make. ;)

    Actually, I’ve been on MySpace and Facebook for quite some time now and I definitely prefer Yuwie to both of them. I feel that it has better features that are much more user-intuitive. But aside from that, I’ve met a lot of really cool people (many of them bloggers), and have made some money at the same time. So to me it’s been a win-win.

    As for being a pyramid scheme…it’s quite obvious here that the author has little to no knowledge regarding pyramid schemes. So here’s a post that explains what they arel:

    What Is A Pyramid Scheme?

    All in all, I’ve enjoyed Yuwie quite a lot. But like everything else in this world, nothing is ever one size fits all. Some people like chocolate, some people don’t. It’s that simple. But to say it’s nothing but a pyramid scheme and that the people who join it are lazy is just a plain ridiculous. In fact, if the author and some of the commenters here actually did the proper research prior to spouting off, they’d find that there are some very well-known people who are members of the site. People who didn’t become wealthy from being lazy.

    Shine on,
    Aaron
    http://www.aaroncook.com

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  73. Grahamburger said on January 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 am

    See, here’s the thing.
    I’m not lazy. I’m greedy. I work two part-time jobs and am a full time student in college. Things are expensive, and I like money. So what’s the harm in adding a little dough to the flow? I’ve checked it out and nobody has yet to say it’s a scam, that I can find anyways. I’m not expecting it will produce millions, I’m expecting a few cents every month (I really have no idea) but seriously, extra money is extra money and what’s the harm in that?

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  74. john ceschiat said on January 5th, 2008 at 6:06 am

    yuwie is about to hit 400 000 members u can change the layout any way u like and the backgroud as well in an year the top 5 players will be making $5000 an month one has an downline of 60 000 with only 673 on level one if u dont want to be an part of it do go here lost.eu/3a026 for the link

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  75. bryan ward said on January 8th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    who ever created this blog is a dumb ass i love yuwie amd i get paid by yuwie every month just cuz this shoemoney site sucks ass doesnt mean you have to rip on yuwie yuwie will be the next myspace mark my words

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  76. Dave said on January 12th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

    When people see a scheme like this, they tend to forget that what comes out, cannot be more than what comes in.

    What bothers me about Yuwie is that it is giving people very unrealistic expectations about the money they can earn. I figure the most Yuwie can afford to pays its members, on average, is about 10 cents a month. Please see my webpage at http://www.dstewart.ca/yuwie.html to see why that is, if you’re interested.

    If you like the layout and features, then fine… but otherwise Yuwie is just cluttering forums with people trying to get referrals.

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  77. Dave said on January 12th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    What bothers me about Yuwie is that it is giving people very unrealistic expectations about the money they can earn. I figure the most Yuwie can afford to pays its members, on average, is about 10 cents a month. Please see my webpage at http://www.dstewart.ca/yuwie.html to see why that is.

    If you like the layout and features, then fine… but otherwise Yuwie is just cluttering forums with people trying to get referrals.

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  78. Ben said on January 15th, 2008 at 12:46 am

    well, ill be signing up but not expecting much out of it.
    so long as i dont pay anything for it, getting a few dollars on the side isnt too bad. i dont expect to earn more than $20 a year. infact i doubt ill even get that. not everyone who joins is going oh man im gonna get $10 000 a month! :P

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  79. Colin said on January 15th, 2008 at 1:49 am

    shouldn’t we all be getting real lives?

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  80. lisa said on January 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am

    i think its absolutely ridiculous how people always advertise get rich quick schemes online or on tv or anything. they appeal to the people who really need the money and are at here ropes end with trying to make ends meet. more and more people everyday are falling victim to the ways of the world and it sickens me. there should be some program or agency out there that gives people like this jail time because there taking advantage of peoples horrible money situations. and making them worse.

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  81. John said on January 18th, 2008 at 8:38 am

    Okay, I have not joined Yuwie; and probably won’t. I do like making money for nothing, it is human nature. I make a little by using Moola.com. Basically you are given a penny. You then risk said penny playing games, level one costs a penny, if you win you get 2 (yours back, plus 1). Level 2 costs 2 penny’s if you win you get 4 (your 2 back, plus 2)…So on and so forth. If you lose all of your money, you get a free penny yet again. - The catch, you watch a very short ad before playing games. There is also a search and win feature, all you do is search for something (as you would with google.com) and a bonus wheel may come up and award you with extra.
    I have been a member for a few months, and I have cashed out, received my cheque. Don’t expect thousands (although a few have cashed out $1000+). To join, you need a referral, and there is one below:

    http://www.moola.com:80/moopubs/b2b/exc/join.jsp?sid=4d5449744e5459314d54453d-2

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  82. Jason said on January 18th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    I am a developer who owns a social network site similar to myspace so naturally I view and inspect all social network sites for ideas and such, I like to combine the best features of all social networks into my site. My thoughts of yuwie.com, they pay you which is a GREAT feature I am considering using the new google adsense API for revenue sharing myself but as far as the site yuwie goes, I would have to rank the actual site a 1 on a 1-10 scale, feature wise it could not get any worse in my opinion and I have seen them all

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  83. Premierejan said on January 19th, 2008 at 1:40 am

    I’m a member of Yuwie and I’ve made $500.

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  84. JustGPT said on January 21st, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    I agree. The site looks like a total piece of crap. Frankly I’m getting very tired of all the Yuwie spam. It’s always the same line:
    ” Just like MySpace except you get paid!! ”

    Ha

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  85. Jeff said on January 24th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    Dont expect to turn any page views if your not going to work for them, Jack Ass. Thanks for your time.

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  86. PEG said on January 25th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    Just to let you know, I am not lazy. I work 2 part time jobs. And I’m at Yuwie for friends, and if they want to pay me, let them. I’ve got lots of friends I met from Yuwie, many are Christians. So, don’t say we are lazy. You didn’t give Yuwie a try and you judge them. It’s not nice to judge people from the outside. Get to know the people before you say they are lazy.

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  87. Lunaalsol1 said on January 28th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    For the person who started this blog. Let me tell you what Yuwie is.
    Yuwie is another place where you can Advertise what you already have working for you to make money. If you only see Yuwie as a looser site. I wonder what kind of education you might have. If you can’t see that is an open door to many othe opportunities then I will openly say. You are a great looser.
    I am the CEO and President of my own business. I sell frozen foods. Thanks to Yuwie I have gain a lot of steady , loyal customers.
    If these Yuwie members were loosers, where do they get the money to buy my products?
    If you need advice on how to take advantage of Socialize Networking I will gladdly teach you for a fee. I can’t give you my PGD for free. Go back to school.
    And yes YUWIE DOES PAY.

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  88. Lisa said on January 29th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

    I was reading through to determine if Yuwie was a scam, and I had a thought when reading your post, Lunaalsol1. . .as a CEO and President of your own business, you may want to invest in spell check: looser, othe, and gladdly do not help your professional image.

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  89. Kim said on January 30th, 2008 at 12:19 am

    Is anyone worried about the fact that Yuwie now has your Social Security Number or Social Insurance Number???? That’s pretty scary…

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  90. Rachel said on January 31st, 2008 at 7:50 am

    I have been a member of Yuwie now for several months. While I understand that some are making money, I have enjoyed having an free online forum to stay in touch with actual friends and family. I didn’t choose to make money on the site…so I haven’t worked it like some have. Just a quick note on the pyramid scheme comment. I would have to disagree. A pyramid scheme requires the participant to put in their own money. Yuwie does not require this, so it is not by definition a pyramid scheme. Will I ever make money on Yuwie…who knows…do I care…not really.

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  91. Rachel said on January 31st, 2008 at 7:53 am

    Using Yuwie does not require an individual to submit their social security number. I

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  92. Patricia said on January 31st, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    Hi.. I just wanted to say that i am a yuwie user and i havent received anything yet.
    But.. I started using in about 6 days ago and already have over 150 friends and 4 of those r referals.
    Also I dont like your comment about yuwie users being lazy asses because I have three children and I am far from lazy.
    my whole life I have done manual labour weather it be digging ditches and helping my parents at home cutting wood or working cutting row for you rich idoits to eat, on my feet from 7 am till 2 am the next morning cutting stinken fish open and ripping their guts out to doing dishes in the sickest bar in town for a few bucks to get by.
    If I or anyone can make money off the net and still have time to spend with their families let alone time for yourselves then more power to ya. I dont expect to get rich off it or anything, just have time for life.
    Something not alot of people have these days with all the worries about wheres the next cheque comming from or how am i going to pay for all the things the kids need and want while im at home waiting for something to happen by some miricle where theres no strings attached and i get to make a few bucks to help with the every day stuff that are considered luxuries now like good food and healthy living.
    you need money to have a vehicle and food and lights and heat believe it or not.
    Being a stay at home mother i dont have the time or respect to get a good job and not have to work to pay a babysitter.
    If you know something i dont about yuwie .. please feel free to contact me.
    Also if you know of any better ways of going about making money at home feel free to let me know.
    Everything seems to involve having a credit card and thats just another luxury to me.
    So have a great day and please feel free to e-mail me with some advise on this.

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  93. Speeling Natsee said on January 31st, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    You took the words right out of my mouth (keyboard), Lisa! Of course, Lunaalsol1 might be the CEO, President … and sole employee ;)

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  94. Nathan Tam said on October 5th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    Why join another MLM scam?

    There are some great revenue sharing websites like Flixya.com, which offers 100% of the Google Adsense revenue for simply sharing videos, photos, blogs. Its a great way for someone to get their feet wet on making money online without an initial investment.

    Just my .02. I rather be paid by Google than a site called Yuwie?!

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  95. zac said on October 5th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    i think you guys are all lazy fat asses… instead of wasting your precious time writing this gay article, go run some laps or earn money the way you want.. and hmm, i dont think everyone is down for working.. i mean hell, if i can make an easy buck doing shit nothing, count me the fuck in.. seriously..

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