If you haven’t already noticed, Social Networking has taken the Internet by storm! If you’re a regular Internet user, you’ve probably heard about websites like Facebook and MySpace. You may even have you’re own profile page set-up on one of them.

Social networking sites like these are a great way to keep in touch with friends and family. They make it easy to share photos and info about recent events in your life. They’ve changed the way people communicate with each other and they’re being used by millions of people everyday!

What does this mean to you?

It means social networking websites can provide low-cost, viral advertising for your product, business or service to millions of people everyday! If you have a business, sell a product or belong to any affiliate marketing program, you owe it to yourself to learn the advantages of social network marketing!

Therefore, I’d like to take this opportunity to formally announce the opening of the new GetPaidToBeSocial Community and invite all those interested in learning how to make money from social networking to join. Membership is free and signing-up is easy. The Community was created to provide everyone from business marketers to stay at home Moms a place to learn about how social networking sites work, and how they can be used to make money.

Once you’re a member, you’ll be able to share your own thoughts and opinions on how to make money through social networking as well as learn valuable tips and techniques from other members. You’ll also be able to write your own blog and post your own links, photos or videos to help get the word out about your own business, product or service.

So, go ahead, take a look around the site. When you’re ready, join the community, and set-up a profile page. You’ll be glad you did.

I would like to announce that I have just finished adding a new Social News Feed to the resources available at GetPaidToBeSocial.com. In order to help keep everyone caught up with all that’s going on in the daily world of social networking, I decided to create a combined news feed from several social networking news sources. This combined news feed should provide all of the news you need to keep your finger on the pulse of social networking. The feed combines resources from some very reputable and valuable social networking news sources including:

Social Networking Watch - Mark Brooks operates a boutique consultancy that exclusively serves social networking and internet dating companies. He has advised the CEO’s of Friendster, Friendfinder, Cupid, Diet, PlentyofFish and TRUE among others, and has worked in the online community space since 1998. Social Networking Watch (est. August 2006) has no ads, no fluff, just raw news, official rankings and CEO interviews relevant to the Social Networking Industry.

Social Media Trader - Offers a regular selection of in-depth articles, statistical analysis, simple to digest guides, original and unique resources. SocialMediaTrader has information that will help you expand your website and help you to truly engage your audience.

Social Media Optimization - David Wilson is the co-owner of Braveheart Design Inc., a search marketing company in New Hampshire. He registered his first web site in 1997 and has spent the last 8 years focused on search marketing with a wide variety of businesses from small start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. He believes that social media optimization is the merging of traditional media, search engine marketing and social marketing.

Social Media / Social Networking - Lisa Whelan is interested in web 2.0 and the ways that social media improves interaction between people, making the world a smaller, and more accessible place. She believes that Social Media accelerates destiny.  Aside from writing a blog, she’s also an independent management consultant, specializing in business development and marketing in high-tech.

The Social Media Marketing Blog - Scott Monty’s perspectives on implications of social media - the convergence of marketing, advertising and PR on the Web - for marketers, agencies, the enterprise and the individual.

I am sure that anyone wanting to earn money online by using the social networking sites to their fullest advantage will benefit from using the information contained in this feed. I hope everyone that visits and/or reads this post finds the new feed useful. As always, feel free to contact me with any questions or post your comments about the new feed below.