February 20, 2017 at 9:19 am

I also want to know this. If you don’t know how to advance, you’re not very motivated to try harder. At least I’m not. It seems every person I see here is a newbie. I’m beginning to think there is no higher rank, except maybe administrator.

February 18, 2017 at 11:36 am

I have tried Swagbucks because all my frugal blogging friends were raving about how much money they made and what good deals they got. My own experience hasn’t been as positive.

I’m too old and don’t use enough popular products to qualify for most surveys. I hardly ever use coupons because I rarely buy brand name products. I’m only buying for two of us now and we try not to eat processed foods. Most of the tasks that earn you money seem to involve spending money.

I was doing the daily poll and the swag codes, but I finally had to get rid of the swag bar on top because it was interfering with the way some of my websites worked by covering up menus at the top. Unfortunately, it still popped up every time I got onto a shopping site to look for affiliate products to promote in my blogs. It’s a nuisance.

Now when it pops up to tell me there’s a new swag code, I’m not sure how to get to it. I use it very rarely. Maybe I’ll be able to get some cash out of it someday, but it’s pretty labor intensive and not much fun. I’d rather be interacting with people in forums and blogs.

July 23, 2016 at 9:15 am

Thanks for reassuring everyone who was in doubt about payments.

July 22, 2016 at 11:33 pm

As I look at the leaderboard, I see that very few people who have joined have ever been active. I have found that true on other sites, as well. Many people will join if you ask them just to make you happy. Since I knew you wouldn’t see any benefit from my joining until I posted, I posted right away. you have helped me get started here by answering questions when I had them. I think when we specifically invite people to join a site through a referral link, we should do some mentoring if those who join ask questions.

July 20, 2016 at 10:00 am

I’m probably that other one that Kyla referred to in her post above. I just joined, and my very first response to a forum post got the 505 error. I was afraid it had disappeared into cyberspace. I was relieved to find it hadn’t when I was able to access the site again.

July 20, 2016 at 9:15 am

I, too, lost touch with my real-world friends when I began to write online. They simply   don’t understand what I do. Though many are on social media, they aren’t writing online to earn money. They don’t understand WordPress and most have never heard of the third party sites I write or have written for. Sometimes they  read what I write, but most of the time I don’t ask them to.

On the other hand, my online friends understand all those things that are part of our shared virtual   world experience. One even helped me start a blog on Skype once — from across the world. I feel  close to those I work with online. I would count many of them as friends I wish I could meet in person. We help  each other by reading and sometimes sharing each other’s blogs. Sometimes we  share what’s happening in our lives and pray for each other.

I suppose the big difference between real world and virtual friends is that virtual friends can only give virtual hugs. If your spouse or child dies, they don’t come and keep you company and bring food when you don’t feel like cooking. They can’t go for long walks with you. Sometimes physical proximity matters a lot.