Has Affiliate Marketing Caused The Popularity Of Social Networking To Explode

Affiliate marketing and social networking seem to go hand in had these days.

No matter where you look online there are affiliate marketers promoting some form of product or service through the social networks. So is this a good or a bad thing, well that is for you to decide after all I am not the internet police and I have been guilty also of using services like these to promote affiliate products online.

If you are intending to use these networking services to promote products then maybe you should have a complete understanding of why they have become so popular and how you can use them to benefit your online business.

Why Social Networking Has Grown So Fast..

Online social networking has grown to be amongst the most powerful tools to come out of the internet age.

These social networking sites very existence allows people to communicate in ways that were unimaginable to past generations and more than that, it allows people to discover things about each other and rediscover lost connections in a way that is so efficient that some people describe it as downright scary.

Through the sharing of thoughts, ideas and even photographs, people’s ability to network with each other has evolved to an amazingly high-tech point. By simply using such services as Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon and even Twitter this concept has literally exploded across the internet world.

Many Don’t Realize That This Has Been Around For Many Years In One Form Or Another

So in saying that Social networking is far from a new thing and has in fact really existed since the Internets initial inception. That said, it was a long time, relatively speaking, before the idea gained the kind of acceptance and momentum that it now has today.

Nowadays everybody and even your parents and for some grandparents seem to be a member of some form of mass internet social network but in the early days of the internet, only the young and very techie minded were adapting to online life where others that lack computer skills were avoiding such things like the plague.

There are many reasons that people shied away from this type of thing during the first years of the internet. One of the reasons was simply the ease of use. The internet wasn’t so easy for people to understand and using it as a method for creating and maintaining social nodes was perceived as scary by many.

In The Early Days It Was Considered By Many As A Techie Tool

When the World Wide Web came into existence the popularity of social networks took off, but it was still widely seen as a geek tool. While joining a network and finding and making friends within those networks was becoming much easier, the concept was still new and therefore it still seemed difficult.

Through the first decade of the web, networking sites were born and grew but did so mostly by attracting younger and more web savvy users.

However As More And People Become Accustomed To The Idea Of Social Media…

In more recent years the Internets popularity has reached the kind of heights that was once only dreamed of. Nearly everyone has used the internet at one point or another in their lives whether for fun or business, and a vast majority of the people you’ll meet these days either own a computer that is connected to the internet or has regular access to one.

Because of this there is more familiarity with how the internet works and social networks are less scary.

With that in mind, the networks started to grow at even more rapid paces. The big networks caught on so fast in fact that they became cultural phenomena that were tracked, dissected and reported about in mainstream media. Even when the media reported on them in negative ways, the word still got out.

The more that happened, the more it was seen as something that was acceptable to do.

Soon enough society has got to the point where social networking information is exchanged in ways that phone numbers used to be. In actuality, that information is passed even more freely because it’s just so much easier. Now, tracking down new acquaintances on these Internet communities is an automatic action for a lot of people to take especially when you look at MySpace or Facebook.

The result is that the popularity of social networking and this type of internet social interaction has hit everybody. Whereas only a few years ago anyone involved with the social networks were a minority, people who aren’t involved with such things can actually be chastised today.

It’s probably safe to say then, that its popularity is only going to grow into bigger and better things for the future and if as an affiliate or simply an online business owner you do this right you will have a very sustainable and long-term business that will generate a residual income for you by using these social networking sites to their fill potential.