Mylot.com is a paid social site with discussions, custom news & blog posts, 'tasks' and 'workers'. Registered users get paid pennies to meaningfully participate in discussions, uploading photos and accepting tasks posted by other members. A referral program is in place that rewards members for recruiting new members. Members must be at least 16 years old. The site requests full contact information upon registration. Once a prospective member has confirmed his or her email address, approval takes from 24 to 48 hours before the new member can participate.
The landing page of mylot can be customized to display local weather and news stories, product reviews and  blog posts relevant to topics of interest. The topic list includes autos,  computers, education, electronics, foods, health, hobbies, jobs, movies, music, parenting, reading, sports, tv, travel and video games. The Interests’ link leads to a page listing interests links under headings such as; 'Music I like ', 'Movies I recommend', 'Websites I visit', 'Hobbies that I enjoy', etc. This site also contains an internal private messaging system.