It sounds strange, but it is true and it makes sense. Some online services do pay for participation. There are a couple of cases, in which this makes sense. One case is revenue sharing, when a service reinvests some of its earnings to motivate users. In another case it even makes sense, if no earnings are involved. Just think about money spent for advertising to acquire users. This money may passed on to users directly. But anyway, here are two social networks, which do pay users.

mapme is a map service enabling participants to create maps to showcase places or anything else. A map may even have community features enabling others to contribute, too, and be shared. mapme has partnered with Lat49, a service specialized in advertising on online maps (s.a. the lat49 homepage).

myLot is a knowledge sharing site with typical social networking features. The site enables discussions and sharing and pays for activities like creating topics and posts.

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