Here's a new tack on Social Networks - Yuwie: Getting Paid to Network - Could it Work? from ProNet Advertising …. see below:

These options include messages, friends, pictures, blog, schools, clubs, and favorites. As you can see, nothing new there, in fact these same features and many more are already available on other sites, but that's not the point. Yuwie has a detailed set of videos that explains how they are 'changing the game' by paying their users for 'playing around on the Internet'. So how exactly are they changing the game? Let's see.

"…While the amount of you make depends on how much you interact with the site, here is a look at sample earnings based on the 10 levels of referrals and assuming a revenue-sharing rate of $0.50.

I can't imagine how many users and how much interaction I'd have to promote in order to make over ten thousand dollars a month … or can I?  I think my social network would have to have 88,572 members and each of them use the social network 1000 times a month (if I'm understanding this chart properly).

I doubt any one could make a living off of getting people to interact with a social network they built on Yuwie…unless it's a big company that knows they're going to get a lot of members and figures they can build it on Yuwie and cover their expenses rather than build it some other platform.

Look, even if I manged to get 728 members to click 1000 times on something a month in my White Label Social Network on Yuwie (I don't have one there) all I'd make is lousy $14.58 cents.  I can't see why I'd bother for that kind of money.

So the idea of Yuwie is good, but unless they can come up with a way to make some decent money on the thing, I'd take a pass on it.