Is socialtrend.com or/and feelthetrend.com legitimate?
"It's called a ""Pyramid scheme"". Its illegal in almost every country of the Western world. You're not going to earn lifetime income, of course, and these things collapse pretty quickly. Most of the ""common folks"" don't return the investment, its the organizers who take the money. Sometimes they run, most times they end up in jail. The way these schemes work is that they pay the early ""investors"" from the fees paid by new ""investors"". As long as a steady stream of new people keep signing up and paying into it those who got in very early make money. The idea is based on the geometric procession of each new person signing up two or more people, and those people doing the same. Pretty quickly at that rate you need to sign up every human being on the planet to keep the new money flowing in to make it work, which obviously is not realistic. Ultimately a small % of the people (if they can stay out of jail) will make a big amount of money the vast majority of ""investors"" get stiffed."
moneydashboard.com  claims to be the UK's Mint but I have problem using it with my HSBC account right now. I have contacted their helpdesk. No ulterior motives?  You do seem to submit a lot of links to sites like io9, forbes, torrentfreak, theverge, etc. and submit the same article to multiple reddits.  Your links to, for example, theverge also began at the same time that I began seeing them submitted by other users, so I have always been suspicious of your posts. Anyone who claims they can consistently beat the market and asks you to pay them to tell you how is a liar. This cannot be done, as the market adjusts itself. There's nothing they could possibly learn that analysts and institutional investors don't already know. They earn their money through the subscription fees, not through capital gains on their beat-the-market suggestions, that means that they don't have to rely on themselves to earn money, they only need you to rely on them. They have to provide proof because they cannot lie in advertisements, but if you read carefully, there are many small letters and disclaimers that basically remove any liability from them by saying that they don't take responsibility for anything and don't guarantee anything. "The link you originally included had an affiliate code included (now removed). It is likely that your ""friend"" suggested the site to you because there is something in it for your ""friend"" if you sign up with their link. Seek independent financial advice, not from somebody trying to earn a commission off you. Don't trust everything you read online – again, the advice may be biased.  Many of the online ""reviews"" for Regal Assets look like excuses to post affiliate links. A handful of the highly-ranked (by Google Search) ""reviews"" about this company even obscure their links to this company using HTTP redirects. Whenever I see this practice in a ""review"" for a web site, I have to ask if it is to try and appear more independent by hiding the affiliation? Gold and other precious metal commodities can be part of a diversified portfolio, a small part with some value as a hedge, but IMHO it isn't prudent to put all your eggs in that basket. Look up the benefits of diversification.  It isn't hard to find compelling evidence in favor of the practice.  You should also look up the benefits of low-fee passively-managed index funds. A self-directed IRA with a reputable broker can give you access to a wide selection of low-fee funds, not just a single risky asset class." "The link highlighting on that page is bonkers. Not sure I trust what nymag.com is saying about internet culture.  Also: ""It’s tough to generate revenue when your most active user base is too young to have a steady income.""  Really?" Unfortunately that's the most recent full report on things I know of, it was published in December. The current stats can be found elsewhere online. Currently Instagram is surging and has been since March, it's now bigger than Twitter.   Also I believe those stats in the report are based off people who use the network at least once a day. This would include Messenger.   I'm a social media marketer and consultant. The irony is like you I primarily use Facebook as a way to talk to people, I do participate in some groups but other than that I actually have my news feed blocked.   Twitter is a massive time suck to market on, and not my favorite so I just automated that.   Instagram is currently my favorite social media site and I think many Millennials would agree with that. People are highly visual, so it makes sense Instagram is surging. That and there's a lot less drama and bullshit on Instagram in my experience. Like all other trading brokers in the industry, they both have been acknowledged with mixed reviews. Before signing up, it’s important to know whether they are running a legitimate operation or not.  You can see BinaryOptionsTrading-Review.com, judgebinaryoptions.com etc.  to inquiries about these sites. They conduct in-depth research to identify the legitimacy of each brokers present in the market. Hope it will help you in making the right decision. The problem is, I don't understand, how such sites work. Is that scam or not? Some of my friends told me that they've actually received the revenue after they deposited a bit of money to similar sites, and I don't have any evidence not to trust them. Yes there are scam. Stay away. Quite likely people got real money back into Bank Account. Or more likely it shows that there is more [notional] money in the sites account.  If such sites really 'work', then how and why? These sites work, because there are quite a few people who believe in free / easy money. The site could be classic pyramid / Ponzi scheme. They could also be involved in some kind of Money Laundering. Why would anyone trust them so much to give them money for absolutely no reason? Okay, I'm not so clever, but they can't make profit only because of stupid people, can they? The same way you did, at times just for fun to experiment. At times because they believe there is easy get rich way. There is a reward that works so that if you see 120 you start believing in it. If you try and withdraw, there will be quite a few obstacles; under the pretext of holding period, withdrawal fees etc... but mostly they will encourage you to keep depositing small amounts and see it grow. This of it this way; if one can make 20% day on day ... one does not need someone else's money. The power of compounding would mean very quickly $ 100 would become 88 BILLION in 120 days! The truth?  Most of the time that it was a crappy imitator of MAD, it was actually a mob front used to hide and launder money.  Management didn't care one bit about the content so long as it was turned in on time and seemed reasonably professional so as not to arouse suspicion (I knew someone who did some freelance work for them back in the day).  I suspect that is no longer the case. Investopedia has one and so does marketwatch    I've always used marketwatch, and I have a few current competitions going on if you want me to send the link    They recently remodeled the website so it works on mobile and not as well on desktop    Don't know anything about the investopedia one though Urban spoon is a property of citysearch.com who changed their name to citygrid for whatever reason.  The owner Barry diller who operates IAC also owns college humor, the former ask Jeeves and a bunch of other half ass media companies and is a Forbes 400 richest. His building, the iceberg building in nyc is impressive though.  Regardless they also work with 'orange soda' a 'SEO' company that has become particularly useless after the Google panda update and they, like others, have been accused of click fraud.  Nobody clicks ads, these companies need money from somewhere (or somebody) Im always suspicious whenever an article uses 2 data points to suggest a trend. November 1997 and December 2016. Ok? What about all the years inbetween? '97 may have had an unusually high number due to the Dot Com boom when everyone and their brother were creating do-nothing websites and going public. I like the aggregation a lot, but it seems like the site's purpose is designed for lead gen for those tools? Why are there not reviews or profiles of those tools on that site and instead just push their traffic to those platform's websites to download? Which I just think is a que for Google and Microsoft to start integrating your friends opinions on their status updates into your search experiences. If So and So didn't like this restaurant and left a bad note on Yelp! or another restaurant aggregator, well damnit you are not going to see that in your results. Your friends have spoken.  The next best thing (Social) is going to be a bust for the average internet user. "This is some bullshit ""news"" site. Registered to a Svilen Petrov. With ""authors"" from an unincorporated town in Mississippi and Arizona. You can assume this is not a legitimate source when they have sentences like this: &gt;Earlier, Trump many time criticized Amazon"