I first joined Yuwie in early September, full of enthusiasm with visions of dollar signs dancing in my head. Since then I've logged on nearly every day, have made a pretty large number of acquaintences and some truly good friends. IMO good Yuwie friends are those who regularly trade comments, read one anothers blogs, view one anothers photos and send the occasional personal message and that's what's making Yuwie worthwhile for me at the moment. It certainly isn't the money, because, even though I have a 200-plus referral downline, I still haven't earned enough for one check to be cut. Despite my best encouragement, most of the people recruited from the big, free online social networks or mailing list-based groups have gone back from whence they came, some without a word, some with excuses like "all my friends are there" or "Yuwie is too commercial... all people talk about is money and page views" or "75 cents for a month's work? I'm outta here!"  There are however a few Good Yuwie Friends in my downline who'd I'd like to thank publically:

SunDreamer, who also happens to be my husband so he knows there will be dire consequences if he doesn't pop his virtual head into Yuwie from time to time ;-)
http://ww7.yuwie.com/solarjohn/

Tina, one of my first referrals: really nice person, very active Yuwien and interesting blogger
http://ww7.yuwie.com/wildthang/

Kelly, who just signed up last week but has already surpassed most of my referrals in activity and has a pretty cool page already  
http://ww7.yuwie.com/justmeuncensored/

Dave, a third-level referral who is a whirlwind of activity
http://ww7.yuwie.com/dave4/

There are others who are moderately active and a few more who at least are still here. But judging from my memory of last month's activity stats, a good three-quarters of my referrals haven't logged on in weeks in and some cases months so I think it's logical to say they've left Yuwie completely.

I'd also like to thank my non-downline fun'n'active friends like Katlady2, ScribbyCat, Carol, Zoey's Inspirations, Tara, Pat, Karin, Margy, Josi, Jim, Byronie, Dr. Gayle, OstaraWitch, Spirit Walker, Rick, Nora, Anna, John Peter and my newest Yuwie friends Mara, Ravenbat, Mz Frescatore, Cathi and William of BackPorchGallery for keeping this place alive for me. I know there are others but it's early in the morning... apologies to those I haven't mentioned, but you know who you are ;-)

Anyroad... my question to y'all is

Why do people leave Yuwie?
If they do stay, why aren't they more active?

I also have a theory that those members who signed up in the beginning (July?) are having an easier time keeping their referrals active than those of us who signed up later. Perhaps because they're just higher up the tree and have actually received a check or their direct referrer has. So if you decide to comment, please also let us know when you joined Yuwie.

Thanks for taking the time to read my rant :-)