New Facebook Application Pays Users Ten Percent
A new Facebook application, Market Lodge, pays users 10% when their friends buy on their recommendations.
Market Lodge is a product of BSocial Networks Inc., and relies on the theme that people are more likely to trust recommendations of friends when buying online, because they know and trust them.
The application’s page says:
“With Market Lodge™ you have the ability to instantly create a personalized market place and share products that interest you.
People naturally seek out products and make buying decisions based on recommendations from their friends.
Your personalized Market Lodge consolidates those products that reflect your interests, hobbies and lifestyle onto a platform
that allows you to easily share and recommend them.With Market Lodge you carry no inventory and are in no way involved in the transaction or delivery.
You merely share the products that interest you and are rewarded if a sale results. AND, by registering as a vendor, you can start
or expand your own business simply by making products you create or invent available to be shared by your and thousands of other
Market Lodges.Market Lodge is a simple, fun and rewarding way to be social!”
Will it take off though?
It sounds like a great concept, and is part of the ongoing quest by application developers, and Facebook itself, to mine the gold that is hidden away in the millions of members.
Is it too much like the traditional affiliate programs that everyone seems to love to hate?
Does it lessen the appeal of the social networking site?
I’m one of millions of people who enjoy networking on sites such as Linkedin, Myspace and Facebook, but the keyword to social networking is ‘social’.
Apart from a few misguided friends who don’t seem to get the “social” thing, things sail along there pretty well.
I’d like your feedback on this one!
I’m not speaking for or against this application, and I have a few questions.
Do you think that this will lessen the appeal of the site for you?
Would you “unfriend” people who tried to sell you stuff, either from this application, or by sending messages to your inbox?
Allan, I’m not crazy about the idea since social networking and hard sells don’t seem to work out too well. I think it will sort itself out though because people who are not into it won’t participate.
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G’day Sandra,
It will be interesting to see how it works out.
I guess that it is a case of wait and see…
Cheers!