Social media might give you access to a large number of people to whom you can potentially sell your products and services, or ask for lobang.

But you don’t just stick in your ATM card and expect the cash to come rolling in.

The truth is, you can never predict 100% how your internet audience will react.

For instance, the folks who made influencer platform Faves Asia’s ultra cringe-worthy video most definitely thought it would give wannabe celebrity bloggers something to aspire to. But the video got so much ridicule and backlash they removed it shortly after.

The video follows a vapid local girl who stalks “influencers’” Instagram accounts. When she joins Faves Asia, she gets a ticket to the high life, and ends up going on dates with a Maserati-driving dude.

Since it’s been two months, you might have forgotten how bad it is, so watch the actual video here, in all its cringe-worthy glory.

Whatever you do and say on the Internet stays forever. Even if you take it down, it will live on in people’s screenshots and Facebook posts.

And despite the adage that any publicity is good publicity, making a PR mistake on social media can decimate your reputation.

For instance, remember that HighBlood dating app everyone’s been talking about earlier this year? Yes, the one whose advertising slogan is “no banglas, no maids, no uglies, no fakes/bots, no escorts”.

Well, it’s gotten so much bad publicity that it’s pretty doubtful any of the rich, pedigreed audience it hopes to attract will ever sign up.

Using social media to make money is hugely time consuming. Even if you’re so disciplined that you are impervious to cat videos, building up a following on any platform takes a lot of time. That’s why people get hired as actual social media managers.

For most ordinary people, resisting the temptation to avoid clicking on people’s holiday photos, stalking acquaintances and reading fifty shared articles a day is too much.

The average Singaporean spends 2.2 hours a day on social mediawhich is, well, pretty sad when you consider the fact that we complain about not having enough time to sleep, read, exercise, date or spend time with family.

Singaporeans are proud of living in a country where you can walk around at 4am without fear of getting mugged.

But on the internet, it’s a different story. Online scams are rife, and Singaporeans are losing more and more money to fake internet lovers and tricksters posing as WeChat prostitutes.

One woman lost $1.2 million to a love scammer she met on Facebook. OMG.

These scammers take to social networks to source for victims. For instance, love scammers have diversified from using mainly Facebook to getting on apps like Tinder.

For these victims, the amount of cash they’re losing on social media far outweighs any money they’ll ever manage to make on the Internet.