a friend of mine, usually very careful where he signs up, referred me to yuwie.  
it is like facebook and myspace but they pay you when people visit your page.
 
yes it has advertisements and that is the reason for payment. they pay you by page views, and that can be a result of adding content, blogs, photos, etc.  they also pay for referrals.  the amounts vary depending on revenue they receive from ads   they have a video you can watch that tells about it.
 
 i just signed up and haven't done much looking around yet.  but i will see if i can add all my image sites, sales sites and so on. you can link to your own website and blogs because he had done that.  i won't do a lot with the message boards and such.
i skipped all the go to our advertiser pages by clicking the  button on the bottom, skip.  i did not sign up for any of the info from outside sources.  i know i will still get some spam but i have a great filter.
  if you do decide to sign up, and don't mind, please use my referral link.  thanks
http://r.yuwie.com/dbvisualarts

Oops, I forgot to put my account link!
 
http://r.yuwie.com/perlyyyy
 

i am checking on that now...thanks

 I don't know what exactly happened but I signed up and had oodles of problems.  After I signed up and was lookng around to get a feel of things I started getting lots of Trojan alerts from my antivirus (I had only been a member for a few minutes when this all started) and of course I was deleting the Trojans....but then I started getting all kinds of stuff, mostly about now having porn somewhere in my computer etc.  I'm in the process of finishing up a complete scan  of my computer to see if anything snuck in.....I hope not.  I emailed them to see what was going on, haven't heard anything back yet.  Has anyone else had this kind of problem?  Please let me know.  Just FYI that was the only site I was on so I don't think i could have come from anywhere else.
 
Thanks,
Olivia

i am so sorry.  i have been on there quite a bit in the past two days and have had no problems.  i will do a scan on mine as well just to be sure.  i am sorry for any problems this site has caused.  anyone the least bit worried about it don't sign on because i can't promise that they are virus free.  again i am so sorry

I really appreciate you being so kind, thank you for taking the time to write.   I am sure no one in our group knew of any problems...we wouldn't do that.  I just wanted to let you all know so everyone could be careful and not click on the wrong links....where ever they might be lol ..... I really wsh  could be a part of the fun but I'm kind of afraid to now.....knowing me I'd click on that stupid link again
 
Again thank you for writing and for being sympathetic to my problem.
 
Olivia