Friend has reached a new low. wwyd?

[whatonearth21]

I've name changed for this as I don't want it associated with my posting history. A distant friend of mine is a member of a multi level management company (MLM). There are some legit MLMs but this one is nothing but a product based pyramid scheme.

She posts very little on facebook and instagram that isnt related to recruiting more people to be distributors. She makes everything into a fucking recruitment drive to fill up her downline and cream off more profits at the top from all the people at the bottom of the pyramid. Examples being: picture of 4yo on at dentist with a caption I am so happy to be able to work from home and not miss a moment with my kids, I love being a mummy, etc etc.

I've said subtle things such as going out to work does not a bad mother make and some people enjoy their job and going to work or don't want to risk buying into this but she is totally brainwashed.

I just ignore it for the most part and only read the genuine posts that aren't a hard sell for this bloody MLM. Every post has her grinning like a cheshire cat at how blessed she is and how amazing her life is and how happy this fake business has made her.

But tonight I am raging. She hasn't been around for a couple of days and then she posts this: see pic. It was accompanied with another picture of her grinning like a cheshire cat.

Everyone who has ever suffered depression (myself included, very severely in fact) will know this is total and utter bullshit and she is just using this to market her MLM and prey on depressed people who may struggle going to work. What kind of depression appears out of nowhere and is better in 2 days and you're back to normal? She is a lying cow and I find this despicable.

I've posted her previous 3 days posts then 2 days of silence and then suddenly she's had depression and is all better in 48 hours and back to hard selling her business to the depressed (who might actually be vulnerable enough to buy into it).

I feel like laying into her as this is a new low she has stooped to.

Would you say something or just leave it. It makes a mockery of anyone who has been genuinely depressed.

A lot of them are using the Manchester bombing as a marketing point. An interesting one was the hashtag mudmaskformanchester from a NuSkin bot. Apparently that was just positivity and not for her own gain at al. Apparently selfies when you are wearing a mud mask is, well, supportive to victims of a bombing

Oh. My. God. How despicable and how crass.

"48 hr depression" - ha!

I do like Semi-normal's idea, if you have the energy for it. Maybe get her to understand what a load of shit she's talking. Although is it perhaps her attempt to react to the situation in Manchester? Didn't see any mention of it, but who knows.

Anyway - she's definitely one to lose.

Ughhhhhh. MLMs are the bane of my existence. It takes so little for them to sell their souls, doesn't it?

Tagging her in a lot of memes about fighting depression and how she'll always have a friend in you would be just the ticket to be unfriended by her. Or at the very least, will get her to see what a twat she's been.

Why do people get involved with this stuff?

She is full of dick!
You need to call her on it. Passive aggressive comment. How fucking stupid does she think people are??

Someone on my local selling page had a meme of a child crying "mommy please don't go". It was a bloke trying to recruit women. Utter cunt.

They have no soul or they wouldn't make any money. They're discussing this over in the feminism chat section.

Wow. I think she would piss off the most patient of people!

Wow, she had two day depression aka a hangover/hormones/life/ feeeling a bit down. Poor her!

I think it's possible that the depression is real and the MLM emoticon posts are even more fake than usual. They read like the ones they're advised to post, they may even be copied and pasted. I can imagine that posting all that fakery might exacerbate depression.

I know someone who does this she spent the 4 years i've known her pretty much ignoring me even once told me she thoughg I fake because I never seem stressed or shout at my child then suddenly she was my bff didn't take me long to say I'm not interested but i know others who haven't felt able to say and have ended up buying her stuff or signing up under her. Its really bothers me that she prays on people by showing off her "perfect" life.

Do you not think it's a bit mean to screen shot on here?

People do stupid stuff like this, I just ignore them or you can delete them as a friend if it really bothers you.

Claiming to have depression for 2 whole days in order to prey on the vulnerable isn't just 'stupid stuff'. This needs exposing.

Maybe she is still suffering from depression but is trying to put on a brave face.

I'd be very careful accusing someone of 'faking' depression.

Well if her depression isn't "fake" she needs to stop telling people it's been "cured" after 48hrs! Otherwise people will assume she's making it all up!

I don't normally get involved with FB but I would have to reply to her on this. It's just outrageous and she should not get away with posting such shite!

ha! i have 'friends' on fb that spout this kinda rubbish, i really want to reply along the lines of- you get NO sickpay, NO holiday pay, NO maternity pay, NO steady income every month....... these MLM schemes are rubbish imo

Oh. My. God.  How despicable and how crass.

The funny thing was that the people who publicly called her out on it got messages from her telling them they should be ashamed for trying to make her feel down. So brainwashed that they cannot see anything wrong with what they say and do.

Or at the very least, will get her to see what a twat she's been.

She won't. You'll be branded a neg ferret (or whatever they call people with a sense of reality).

Send her this every time she posts :)

Neg ferret? That's a new one to me. I can't wait to be branded as one.