Several years ago, Friendster was the most used social media program ever being attracted by lots of people. Friendster is designed to make new friends over and over again, sharing your photos and videos, pimp your own profile, advertise your own website, post classified ads and forums and many more. Right now, Friendster has introduced it's all new design, which is now a "green type" and the logo is very creative and attractive to Friendster users.

However, there's one competitor that is actually much better than Friendster, simple but attractive. I'm talking about a social media program called Facebook. This is now the world's largest social media or network program than Friendster, because it already has a total of 350 million users and counting worldwide, and Friendster is much shorter than that. Why they have more members than Friendster?

1. They have many applications both for fun and business to attract customers (e.g., FarmVille, eBay, Paypal Wishlist, etc.)

2. Create your own group and set up a fan box in your account or attach with your website or blog.

3. The Facebook "Share Button" lets bloggers increase their traffic through attaching their share button on the HTML part of their website or blog.

4. Chat with your friends without the need of instant messaging portals like Yahoo, GTalk, Skype, etc.

5. The Facebook marketplace will let them buy and sell their own products, services and offers to their fellow Facebook community.

6. Cheap advertising packages on which Facebook users can purchase and start their own campaigns for their site or Facebook group/fan page.

There are lots more to come on Facebook, and Friendster has nothing to compete it's services with Facebook. We understand that both Friendster and Facebook are the best social media programs right now, but in terms of unique features and applications, Facebook is still the best out here.

Getting popularity on the web is one of the most successful trends that an internet marketer has to perform. We'll, one of the things we have to do is to create social media accounts. Social media are one of the great portals of social networking. It is one of the best things that you will create your own page and to show them around the world.

There are lots of social media sites that existed right now, but allow me to mention some of the top social media networks right now:

1. Facebook - this is also a social networking program which is similar to Friendster, Perfspot, Tagged, etc. There are over 350 million members and still growing who joined this program.

2. Twitter - this is a very attractive social media program which lets you increase more followers in your account. It is also a good place for advertising your own offers.

3. Youtube - this is the hottest social media site right now. More and more people are watching videos over and over again in any form. They can watch their favorite shows, latest happenings and even upload their own videos and show them to the world. This is also a perfect place for video marketing.

4. Imeem - this is one of the hottest social media site when it comes to music. This is only secondary to Youtube but more on listening to some music. You can also watch music videos here, and it's also a good place to market your own music affiliate programs.

5. Apsense - this is truly recommended for business type persons who want to promote their websites and business here at Apsense. This social media program is mostly used for business purposes which you can create your own blog, group and business store as well. Perfect for both affiliate and CPA offers.

Your sites will be popular when you use any of these social media programs I have mentioned above. They are the best and it will guarantee you popularity when you want to promote your programs and gain traffic, sales, revenue and leads. They're the best for now, but there's a whole lot more social media programs to choose and promote from.

Is it possible that we can make some hard cold cash using Facebook? Since this is a free social networking website, there were no incentives to be given away by Facebook just to use them independently. But how is it possible guys? Is there any program that we can use in order to earn.

We'll, there are some Facebook applications that you can make money with:

1. CafePress - sell t-shirts, accesories and other RTW's worldwide.

2. E3buy auction marketplace - same thing with CafePress, but with unique features.

3. eBay - it's one of the most familiar online auction databases in the world, and you can buy and sell any items you want.

4. FlameTunes - if you want to sell your music to your own profile, use this cool application.

5. Garage Sale - associated with Buy.com, you can sell old items to your friends and other people.

6. Lemonade - same thing with CafePress, but if you promote one or more of their products, you gain commissions like Amazon's.

7. Music Blaster - promoting other's music files and earn 5% commission on every sale you generate.

8. My Merch Store - by using Zazzle, you can create your own store and sell your products online, and you can attach the widget in your Facebook account.

9. Shopit - it's all about tech type gadgets like CD's, DVD's, digital cameras, cellphones, etc. Buy and sell your own here at Shopit.

It's easy to search these applications on Facebook. You can search it through Google, Yahoo or Bing. It may be attached in your own profile, as it may monetize your own Facebook account. They would think that Facebook is just for fun and will not earn you money? Think again guys! These applications will potentially blow your business away and to earn hard cold cash!

Lots of people like me are addict to a social network program called Facebook. They mostly use Facebook for playing games like the popular FarmVille, Cafe World Domination and many others. They use Facebook just to make friends, upload photos and videos, share insights with their buddies and much more.

Don't you know that making lots of friends, fans and groupmates in your Facebook account could be profitable? If that's so, we could use this as a source of business that will pump out our web traffic and earnings in our respective affiliate programs.

There's a section in Facebook called "Marketplace", that you can actually find job opportunities, digital products or anything related to business. So how can we make Facebook as our source of business?

1. Creating a group about business and making money discussions that will target most Facebook users who are interested about it.

2. Create a fan box that is related to business and making money discussions, and to attach it on your website or blog. Keep inviting friends to join my group or fan page.

3. Post a business opportunity in the Facebook marketplace in order for the targeted Facebook customers and members to be attracted. Be professional in presenting your advertisement to them.

4. Pay for the Facebook ads which depends on your budget, as long as your ads are related to business and making money discussions.

I think these are the things that you should know on how we use Facebook as our source of business and internet marketing. I cannot say that we use Facebook alone, but also other social networks and media. It's just that we give ourselves an opportunity that what we do on Facebook, is to convert it on our business time.