Drew Burden

So today, I saw a bunch of spam posts on Facebook about Yuwie, yet another social networking site that (supposedly) pays you a cut of the ad revenue they make on your profile views. I Googled it to see if it was real, and lo and behold, it was…

Either way, after watching this lame intro video begging me to sign up and highlighting the good things about Yuwie, I decide to give it a go. My first thought is, there are a shitload of ads on this site. And there really are. They give you about six offers when you sign up that you have to skip, and then you get to upload your picture. Ads are frickin’ EVERYWHERE on this site. A lot of them even talk to you, which is annoying. I better get a hell of a lot of money out of this.

The whole incentive with Yuwie is to get pageviews. Blogs, pictures, anything you make. It counts. This is like the perfect haven for those MySpace whores that go around annoying everyone. The object of the game is to draw attention to yourself. Maybe since I’m on the playground, I might as well play. Yuwie will be the perfect place to let loose what little MySpace-whore-like instincts and urges that I have, which will hopefully make anyone that’s on my friends list on MySpace (all 28 of them) happy. It guarantees them that I will not do a damn thing to bother them on that site.

As I was writing this blog entry, my phone went loco (“ZOMG YOU HAVE 9 MFIN’ NEW EMAILS WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO ME?!?!??!?!!1!!1!!!!1one!~”). Six friend requests, which I had accepted, a comment, a message, and this email from AT&T telling me about their customer service. When I got the first four friend requests, I mass accepted them (hey, this is Yuwie, I’m making money here, who cares if I know them or not) and by the time that was done, I had two more. I’m on track to have about a million more by the time I’m finished making fun of Yuwie.

I do like that you can completely customize your profile and even import RSS feeds (hint hint, MySpace). Yuwie doesn’t really have to bother telling their users not to cover up the ads because the ads make the users money.

Overall I guess Yuwie isn’t that bad. I guess it’s a wait-and-see kinda thing on whether or not I ultimately make some money from this thing. Oh, and if I get people to sign up I get some of the money from your pageviews too, so give it a shot. My referral link is http://r.yuwie.com/nedrubwerd – sign up and we’ll see if any money is made together.