Resistance to Yuwie from committed MySpacers

Will Yuwie replace Myspace as the popular hangout or will Myspacers stay right where they are?

Many of those working to build their network at Yuwie have invited their Myspace friends to join them at Yuwiw. Some join but then after getting signed up are not active at Yuwie, yet remain active on Myspace or other online communities. Why is this?

Asking a few Myspacers about this yielded some interesting responses.

One said "why do you ask? are YOU wanting to make money out of me ? I thought we were friends...."

Another said " At Yuwie, they are all buzzing around like bees swarming - thinking they will get rich quick - they have $ in their eyes"

One commented "I'm not on here to be paid to chat - I am here cos I wanna be and hope that my friends are too"

Another said "it sounds to much like work to me, all I want to do is hangout"

These were interesting comments to me as it seems they had a common negative view about social net working and being paid.

All of these people have at least 50 friends at Myspace. And yes, they could join and each invite their unique friends and do exactly what they are doing now - but they have no interest in doing so.

For example, if Myspacer A signs up twenty five people and they sign up a minimum of three people each and those people sign up three people, and on etc. he could have 1,476,225 on his referral tree and be at the 10th level making that often projected (and often repeated) $10,000 per month doing exactly what he is doing now, inviting friends, socializing and hanging out, provided that all the members he signs up are active. Sounds to me like someone could be missing out on a great opportunity, for something he is already doing for free.

But maybe this is like comparing cats and dogs. Both may be categorized as household pets - but both are totally different animals. I believe that MySpace and Yuwie are also totally different animals.

MySpacers will continue to frequent MySpace because it meets their needs.

Similarly, Yuwiers will continue to browse and click at Yuwie - this may also be because they have their eyes on a prize.

One would hope that the actual building of networks and establishing linkages and connections is recognised as an achievement- and any payments that might come along as part of the process would be a nice bonus.

Well I would hope that !

Weekly Membership Stats as at 4th October 2007

This week,

Total Members have increased from 97,461 last week, to 114,00 today this is a total increase in memberships at Yuwie of 16,539. This is slightly down on last weeks increase but may be due to the server problems making navigation of the site extremely slow, and the fact that the site was offline for maintenance while new servers were installed.

New members so far for the month of October at 8497 looks reasonable.

Note - this weekly snapshot was taken just after midnight Wednesday (US time)or on Thursday afternoon Australian time.

Now, I joined the site last Thursday - but did not really do anything proactive until Monday making 1st October the auspicious start date. Below is a snapshop of my statistics:




We will see what unfolds during the next week before I comment on whether that was a good start - or not ! But, it is fair to say - it surprised me - but wait and see.

OK Whats to lose !!

Its fair to say I have been convinced by my own rhetoric ! I joined YUWIE.

Last Thursday, while visiting the site to collect the weekly stats it occurred to me - as I wrote the post - "you know this site may just do what it claims to" "OK. Whats to lose" and "Its free to join - so why not join". So I signed up -there and then.

I might add that a friend, who is a YUWIE member, had told me about how slow the site was last week, but that still did not prepare me for the tortuous delays in page loadings. It was unbelievably slow. Apparently the servers could not cope with the rapid growth in members and their activities.

Since then I believe that new servers have been commissioned, and the site has been off line on several occasions for maintenance - normally at evening USA times - which sadly is lunch time here in Australia though. But the speed has greatly improved. In fact it was zipping along this morning.

So the weekly stats will now include a progress report on my membership and we will see what happens.