Begging for social media likes

[goaskmum]

I have this friend from school on my Instagram (we are still friends and meet up for coffee now and again) and nearly every time she posts a photo on her page, she messages me to ask if I can like the photo for her.

It’s almost as if she’s insecure and needs as many likes as possible.

I usually do like her posts anyway, anytime she had messaged me I would go and like her photos if I hadn’t already but now I’m getting so fed up with it that I’ve started to ignore her when she messages me about liking her posts and I don’t bother liking the post in question because it’s so annoying!

Anyone else have any friends like this?

I'd have to remove someone like that off my friends list, that's quite tragic.

God no, just ignore her

@TacoCats

I'd have to remove someone like that off my friends list, that's quite tragic.

I nearly feel like it but we get on so well I don’t want to fall out with her!

No way, I wouldn't be drawn in, is she starting off on an MLM?

@nearlyspringyay

No way, I wouldn't be drawn in, is she starting off on an MLM?

Excuse me for my ignorance but what does MLM mean?

Multi level marketing-its a pyramid scheme/total con
Think body shop at home/Avon/Neil’s yard/usborne books etc
You have to sell to all your mates/recruit people to move up the pyramid
More people lose money than make it-you’ll see it all on social media with the ‘pm me hon’, ‘boss babe’ or ‘make 3,000,000 a day from working at home’
Utter bollocks

What @Bluelillies says. Be ready with an excuse as to why you don’t want to buy overpriced products or join the 99.6% of people who lose money! It’s an approach that has an MLM feel to it.

Gosh that strikes me as a little upsetting really. Is everything ok with her? It strikes me as though she must be struggling in herself and is desperate to feel popular or obtain validation. I can't imagine she feels very good about herself if she is going to these lengths for a like.

Unless this is some kind of situation where she is starting a business (not MLM) or trying to get an instagram page going- in which case I'd just like it anyway to be a good friend, it's hardly a great effort.

No I don’t think she’s doing it for business purposes or any kind of revenue.

She can be quite show offy and has to broadcast everything.

For example, if she uploaded a selfie, she would ask me to like it. I don’t know if it’s just me or if she asks all her friends to.

She would often put up a story with her post attached to it and ask everyone to like it.

So it’s clearly just so she can get more likes so she looks more popular. I don’t mind liking her posts, but I’m not going to be made to feel like I have to like every single one because she says I have to, it’ll just make me not like them