AIBU to be fed up with friends marketing their “businesses”?

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A number of my friends have started their own pyramid selling schemes“businesses”. One is selling Younique makeup. Another is selling Usborne books. Others are selling teeth whitening kits or some sort of juice cleanse.

AIBU to be absolutely fed up to the back teeth of being added to Facebook groups and group messages, tagged in posts and comments that have nothing to do with me, invited to “coffee mornings” with the intent of flogging me stuff, and generally hassled constantly? Not to mention being marketed to verbally whenever I see them.

I like these friends and don’t really want to block them all. But I have no idea how to make them stop pestering me! It seems so rude to just leave their groups... Is there some sort of etiquette here?

Just leave everything you’re not interested in.

It's just as rude to add you to a group you haven't asked to be in. I normally just remove myself

Drives me mad! I don’t know why they think it’s a good idea, they are so obviously a con 🤦‍♀️

no-one can add you to a Facebook group if you have your settings set correctly ;) so change your settings...

as for etiquette - just leave a group / ask them to not talk about it (I am sure it is really exciting, but I want to have coffee with you, not a business pitch) - if they don't get it then they aren't really friends, so ditch them :D

Have a look at the MLM Bot Watch threads in Money Matters for the background on multi-level marketing schemes (which most of these are likely to be, eg Younique).

Remove yourself from the group, tell them you wish th well however you have no interest. Friends will not be offended because friends respect each other.

I really feel for these ladies who have been sold the idea of flexible self employment. The only ones making any money are those who are selling hundreds of pounds worth of starter kits!

The Usborne books friend has now started sending messages to all my friends who have kids in their profile pictures, saying hi we have a mutual friend and I see we’re both mums, I’d love to meet up with you for a cuppa. So she can try to flog them kids books. I find it very intrusive! I’ve now figured out how to hide my friends list.

How do you change your settings to prevent friends adding you to Facebook groups? As far as I know that isn’t possible?

Can you put up a status asking people not to add you to groups?

If they’re proper friends they’ll respect that. I’ve done it.

Yanbu. Drives me mad.

You can 'unfollow' people on FB without unfriending them. Just click on their profile and there should be the option. I've had to do this to people who do the 'share if you care' bollocks all the time.