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Numerous websites encourage their members to actively recruit friends and relatives to sign up under them. It becomes annoyed and unethical. Everyone declares that they will help you making more money. They post their link in forums, privately send you emails, you got sucked into it, and you spend so many hours checking it out. Finally, you realize that is just another way they get you to sign up under them for more referrals. Yes, they are nice, and helping to point out which sites you should consider, but the bottom line is they want to get more “workers” for themselves.

1. Integrity

   How do you feel about people making money on your hard work? Do you make money on introducing your friend to a job? If he/she got the job, your friend thanks you and probably takes you out for dinner, to show his/her gratitude, but that is all. I oppose to this kind of money making because I think its integrity is greatly diminished. If you want to earn money, then do the work yourself. Search the internet, type in what you are looking for, go directly to the site, and sign yourself up.

2. Spam

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   Since referral system is what earns people money, they start to look for ways to post their links everywhere. Your email address received hundreds of spam a week. This spam results in viruses, hacking, and dishonesty. People add you as your friends in the forum are actually just looking for a way to get you to sign up at their site. Just mention the phrase “makes extra money” then you have lots of people looking into it. Those three words are quite powerful in their own persuasive ways. Be cautious about what you sign up or be ready to close your email account.

3. Myth

   Time, energy, and effort are wasted in trying to get a piece of the internet money making promises. If it’s all that easy, nobody will hold a job anymore. Everybody will flock to the internet and sign up for those get paid to click, read emails, sign up for offers, taking surveys, and earn from your referral sites. For years, I was that sucker to this myth. I spent so much time trying to do the clicks, read emails, taking surveys, and promote my paid sites in order to meet my pay out, but as soon as I was about to reach pay out, the companies either went under or disappeared.

4. Work ethics

   What happens to “you get what you put in”? Why is it all right to make money on the people that sign up under you? Did you do the work yourself? Did you put in a second of reading that email, clicking that ad, or answering that survey? Well, if the answer is no, then you didn’t earn it. Did you put the time to write that article? Somebody did, and that somebody happened to sign up under you, so you earn their royalties. Really, is it right? Is that the principle? Is it fair? If those sites pay those extra pennies to the people that actually put in the work themselves, then we would have good work ethics.

5. Values

   Writers, especially, work very hard to write their articles. Would Ernest Hemingway, or Emily Dickenson, or F. Scott Fitzgerald mind if someone is making money from their work? Sure they do! You will have a law suit on your hands if you make money from their writing. It is the same values that we should take into consideration. In these days, the moral values seem to be a thing of the past. I don’t want to earn a penny from anyone’s hard work, and I don’t want anyone to make money from my hard work either.

The referral system is out of control. Most people join forum sites to promote what they believe will yield them most referrals. Loud headline such as “this site will pay you 5 cents per click” brought in a wave of responses. Quieter recruiters declare that they only want to help, just go to their sites, and check them out. What we don’t know is that when you click on their links, their identification numbers or tracker or user numbers is rooted in it. So really, are they helping anybody, or are they helping themselves? Take a stand, refuse to be a sucker in this referral system, work hard on your own, make money on your own, and enjoy the fruit of your own labor!