Revenue sharing Social Networks
These kind of Social Networks share most of their revenue(from 50% to 90%) with their members and this acts like their marketing strategy because the increasingly number of Social networks improved the method to attract audience. Most of these social networks use motos like these to draw new members: Yuwie: Where it pays to socialize or Apsense: Get Paid to Promote your Business...etc.
How do they differ from non-sharing social networks?
Earnings. In terms of social networking service, nothing changes, they are the same. These social networks implement a script that measures or counts the page views a user's profile has achieved plus other activities such as the blog/videos/groups and depending on a variable(which can be unchangeable)like earn per pageview (i.e, 0.1$ per pageview), calculates a member's earnings.
Attendance. Hence to get in or participate in these kind of social networks no skill at all is needed-that is webmaster skills like programming or previous knowledge of markup languages for building web pages are not required(maybe optional). The only thing necessery to take part is having human communication abilities(non-social people are dangerous in a social network). In addition, talent to create profiles, blogs,discussions,videos may vary between people and that is the main feature defining earnings.
Features. Some paying social networks like Dada.net have evoluted and have enabled members who at the same time are publishers(have their own Google pub-id) to place their publisher-id number and get the earnings directly from google while owners share a percent of the clicks with members.
Programs. Some kind of script or feature that makes paying social networks differ are referral programs. That is, a program which is counted by levels and works in this way: You are given a referral link which you show to your friends and if they join, they join after your referral link and are counted as your first level downline. The same thing your friends can do with their friends and so on. In this way you can create a deep level downline and earn a percent of their earnings ( this is defined by the social network e.g, level 1: 15%, level 2: 10%, level 3: 5% and so on...).
How do you get paid?
The most used payment processor is PayPal but as if Paypal isn't an international company - that is not all countries are allowed to receive money through Paypal- paying social networks pay their members via check. But previously you should verify if your bank can transfer the company check into your bank account.
In addition, you must be aware that all social networks have a minimum reach before you can get paid and this varies from 10$ to 100$.