An Explanation of the Infamous "Get Paid for Your Opinion" Sites

And Why You Never Received that IPod!

Make $500 a week by completing surveys! Surely you have seen this and very similar advertisements all over the Internet during your routine web browsing experiences. These guarantees to make you rich in less than thirty days come in the form of pop ups, banner ads and google links that, in spite of our better judgment and common sense, we click right upon. So what is the scoop with this whole new survey taking “profession” and past time and are people really getting rich enough to quit their jobs over it?! About any given Internet user, if asked this question, would probably give me the same retort. That is, these are misleading advertisements, fodder for true junk mail content, and certainly a waste of time looking into. This stance held by so many people , including many in my own personal group of friends, family and acquaintances, is easy to comprehend. For, anyone (and that’s probably everyone) who has been sucker enough to try and take the Which-Is-Better-Coke-Or-Pepsi Survey knows that what follows are endless tasks requiring the deselection of copious opt-in newsletters and requests for information that go on and on for pages on end until you finally decide to throw in the towel and forget about that awesome new Ipod Prize they are offering because no piece of expensive electronic equipment can be even close to worth the arduous effort it takes to select “No Thank You” boxes corresponding to hundreds of undesirable offers. And thus, you have given up all faith in what you once thought just might possibly be the perfect work alternative of your dreams.