Is Yuwie a Waste of Your Precious Time?

I'm quite sure you've all seen the Yuwie spam flooding the internet for the past maybe 6 or 7 months. "The social networking site that pays!" is what they are known as. But is this site a complete waste of time? I would say it's a big waste of my time, but some will disagree and say it's not. Ok, so they pay you to use their hideous site. But the time you spend spamming your referral link around just to earn peanuts could be spent doing something else that could be making you so much more money.

When you first visit Yuwie, you're greeted with a video. A "clever" video telling you how great their site is and how you can earn good money with them. Now here's the part that had me giggling. The man in your computer screen says that you get paid 50 cents for each 1,000 page views you get. "now that may not seem like much but it adds up fast"...Yeah let me go sign up right away - I'm sold.

Here's one of the perferred spam quotes from users that promote Yuwie like a pack of hungry wolves. I'm sure you've seen it as well.

Just like MySpace except you get paid!

To answer your question, ladies and gents - Yes Yuwie is a waste of time. We'll call this an opinion since there's others that disagree with me. They're much more focused on smothering you with ads when they could be redesigning their site (much needed) and providing users with a great unique experience. Here's a question to ask yourself: Why would I want to promote a website that pays me so cheaply when I could be promoting my very own website and make much more money? WHY!?