Facebook, MySpace and Blogging...

Yeah, I know you (and I) spend a lot of our good, waking hours screwing around on social networking sites, so why not get paid for it. If you’ve got a lot of friends, it’s easy to “bulletin” advertise where you send them to affiliated websites who pay you for the traffic you generate. Facebook can work the same way, and if you’re computer literate, you can generate an application or a program that will pay through advertisers in the same way. If you own a blog, go ahead and monetize it with Google Adsense and use your capacity as a socialite to advertise for your blog. Have you tried making and selling trinkets like backgrounds, templates, animations, scripts, etc? It’s like the twenty-first century equivalent to selling your own jewelry or homemade mittens. For that matter, why not make jewelry and homemade mittens and sell them to your “friends” online. You can do the same with music, with poetry, with homebrewed beer....Especially as you get into your twenties and thirties, people begin to appreciate homemade and artisinal stuff more than they like the hustle and bustle of the Gap. Remember, your popularity as a social networker is the key to generating traffic to and selling stuff, so if you’re a prolific networker already, you’ve won half the battle. Got like, 3,000 friends? Some upstart social networking sites will pay you to migrate to their platform and bring your friends with you. Look for these guys, they’re everywhere.