AIBU to be concerned for friends...

[Wassock]

...or should I just wait it out and be here when it (perhaps?) all goes wrong. I am prepared to be told to mind my own business too...although I haven't, and don't intend, to actually say anything unkind to any of them!

So...recently three friends (neither of them connected to each other in any way at all) have all become 'CEOs' of their own 'business'. In other words, they've succumbed to the spin of an MLM organisation (two selling make-up and one selling coffee that is supposed to make me thin).

Their social media sites are now completely overrun with BossBabe memes and inspirational quotes about how they are empowering women etc. We (friends and family) are bombarded with requests to a) buy the products and b) join their 'amaze-balls' team and become successful like them too. It is incessant.

I really do love these women. And I really do understand how MLM organisations work and can suck you in. I'm worried for their eventual emotional health when it all ends and the financial implications it will have on them. (I hate myself for hating their social media sites right now...it upsets me, but I've had to 'unfollow but remain friends' for now because I just can't take anymore 'Eeeeks'! I may burn in hell. I'm ready to be flamed...I'm already self-flagellating!

Simply unfollow them on social media. Leave them in their own little world.

Find the MLM threads on here (in the Money section I think) - lots of people on your position, will get advice on what to do.....

neither of them connected to each other in any way at all

just for lolz, perhaps you should connect them ?

On second thoughts, maybe not. A circular loop of MLM agents might just cause a time-space rift and destroy the Earth

On second thoughts, maybe not. A circular loop of MLM agents might just cause a time-space rift and destroy the Earth

Ziggy says there's over a 90% chance that will happen.

Ziggy says there's over a 90% chance that will happen.

Thing is, if we were thrown back 40 years in time, how would we tell ?

You make a good point. I'm out of my depth at this point, I just got a rush of blood to the head at the thought of subverting the time-space continuum.

Op, sorry, I feel like I should add something useful now but really, I don't know what I'd do. Unless any of them are particularly vulnerable, I think I'd do as you suggest you will and unfollow and remain friends. No self-flagellation necessary though.

My mind is exploding at the idea of a circular loop of non-linked friends joining ranks and causing untold (and possibly irreversible!) damage to the world as we know it! And it will ALL BE MY FAULT 😫 (Self-flagellation is too good for me!!!)

Unfollow! Just meet as friends.

Just had someone tell me how beautiful she is without make up blah blah, self confidence blah blah. Then leads into how great Yoonique is! Not a friend but must be a friend of a friend so I can't unfollow unfortunately!