About two months ago I read about a socializing website called Yuwie, that promoted itself on being different to the many buckets fall of already existing socializing websites, by publicizing that with this website I could make money, by simple doing all the things I was already doing on existing websites. Despite, being skeptical about false promises and wary of scams, I decided to check the website out.
Before signing up I was shown how it's possible to make lots and lots of money in the video hosted by an American business man who looked like he was trying to hard to be cool. It looked hopeful.
The main way of making money was by page views, the more page views you get, the more money you make. But to make any serious money, I had to get referrals and I would be paid on their page views, as shown in the help section below, the website promised much.
The above image is taken from the help section of the website.
What I found after over two months of trialing this website is very different. It wasn't so much a socializing website, more of a website full of desperate people trying to get as many friends as possible, no matter incompatible people seemed. This desperation comes from the idea that if they add me as a friend and add a comment on my profile, giving me a page view, I would return the favor - like the hell I would, I'd rather not chat to a middle aged American, a teenage Asian or someone's disco-liking grandmother.
The other greatly annoying part was the endless blogs from my new "friends" and clubs of endless spam telling me how to get 1000 friends or 1000 page views in a week.
As for my earnings after one month? Well, I had only managed to get two referrals. However, I had over 1,500 page views and my referrals had 500. This meant I had managed to make a sum of $0.04, which is approximately £0.02. Great!
Through an official blog, the website claimed that the payout rate was lower, because of many cheaters, this also meant endless entering of "captcha" codes (where you have to enter what code is displayed in a picture) on normal navigation of the site, this made moving around the website very frustrating.
Overall, despite the annoyingly endless cycle of entering security codes, this website does exactly what it advertises to do, allow existing friends to set-up profiles and keep in contact, and it also allows people to chat with new people from around the world, even though about 90% of these only care about the page view you give them. However, with a very plain user-interface, lack of features, endless "make friends" spam, I believe there are many better socializing websites out their.
And if you join to get rich or to make a little money, I think you will be in a hard struggle.
