Customer rewards systems and methods for social networking applications

A system for promoting customer loyalty to a website with a social networking application, the system comprising:

• a first memory for storing a plurality of web pages, each of the plurality of web pages having a social networking application selected from a group consisting of an e-mail application, a calendar application, a chat room application, an instant messaging application, and a media management and sharing application;
• a second memory for storing data associated with a customer account for a user to access the social networking application;
• and
• a processor configured to:
• receive the data from a user terminal,
• verify the user's membership for accessing the social networking application, and
• transfer an award to the customer account upon access to one of the plurality of web pages with the social networking application.

A system for promoting customer loyalty to a website with a social networking application, the system comprising:

• a database for storing data associated with a customer account for a user to access the social networking application;
• a processing module responsive to the receipt of the data associated with the customer account upon log in to the website, the processing module verifying the user's membership for accessing the social networking application;
• a social networking module responsive to a request to use a social networking application selected from a group consisting of an e-mail application, a calendar application, a chat room application, an instant messaging application, and a media management and sharing application;
• and
• an award manager module responsive to a request to access a webpage on the social networking application, the award module transferring an award to the customer account in response to the request received, the award module storing the award in the database.