A Little Odd About Social Networking

Does this happen to you? Seems a little odd to me.

We like you, are here and all over to have a little fun and share pics and stories with those that like them. There are many social networking sites around that essentially are places to share pics for your friends to be able to view. Some of the ones that have members with adult restricted galleries will have everything from bikini models to the most graphic explicit images. Some have images that would make Larry Flint blush.

These sites are joined to give people a place to view your pics if interested and to view theirs. Usually these can only be seen by invitation and then only if the potential viewer joins the service and provides information necessary to eliminate minors. Warnings are offered to the new members as to the adult nature of the area. Those old enough and are not offended buy such offerings are allowed in. Most also allow a link to a website or group of yours for more information....... This is good for all.


The member has the ability for free usually to post personally owned photos, to view others profiles with photos and to meet and make new friends with people that have similar interests.

The sites are advertising driven as almost all sites are. The membership increases, because of invitation and publicity from the members and builds an enormous returning member base resulting in ad space becoming more and more valuable.

The members browse their friends and potential friends and click onto and buy from the advertisers. The advertisers have increased sales and the site can demand more for the space.

It is terrific upward spiral of members, advertisers and the site all receiving benefit. Everyone wins.

We have toured and reviewed many many of these sites. They are all over the place. It seems like a lifetime could be spent investigating them for your needs and interests. Essentially they are all the same with variations in their rules and their attitude toward the members.

There is an odd thing about these sites though.

The member is the customer and without them the sites have no base or traffic to entice advertisers to invest in promotional space. Without the member, regardless of the product
or offer, no one sees or buys the advertisers product or service. Without the member no one makes money and the site fails. It is no great loss to anyone except for the sites owner. The customer and the advertiser move to another site and the middle man disappears.

Considering all this how is it that a lot of these places are so arrogant and rude, nitpicking and harassing members, their bread and butter?

Most are very member friendly and make the experience enjoyable encouraging the member to return with an active relationship with the site.

Many are not though. It seems that some of the very large ones connected with some of the largest names are the least member friendly. They will send nasty scolding messages and treat you with the arrogance of the all powerful. Doesn't it seem odd to you, it does to me, that one profile will contain some pics that are so graphic the porn industry only has them in their most vulgar sites and is acceptable, while another profile may have very tame erotic pics with no nudity or sexual acts and be threatened and scolded into removing their membership. I bet this has happened to you.

All of us are about protecting children and no one wants to offend anyone else. We dont want to corrupt any ones point of view or expose anyone to anything they do not want.

We are all grateful for and support the sites that make our experiences more enjoyable but it does seem sometimes that too many have forgotten the business basics of who is there for who and who needs who.

In the ideal everyone wins.
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