Not to share 'content creator' friends posts?

[Bearpawk]

Hi there
I largely use social media to view videos to my 2 hobbies and my profiles are set to private. old school friend is trying to make a living from sales via an Instagram account she created especially for this advertising . Mainly uses her kids and dog to create adverts for products she's been gifted or discounted. I don't follow her ads page (only her personal one) because I'm not interested in being bombarded by adverts for products I'll never use - I have neither kids nor dogs.

From what I can see it's largely the same demographic of women all following liking and promoting one another in one big echo chamber - I don't understand how they make any money.. but whatever.

The problem is she keeps sending WhatsApps and posts asking us to all follow and share her posts on her business page. I don't want to follow it, as I said I've no interest in the content and if I'm completely honestly the ad voiceovers are incredibly wooden and I'd be a bit embarrassed sharing them.

Aibu to politely ignore the requests?

YANBU - your “friend” sounds like a MLM hun bot.

YADNBU. Those kinds of videos are terribly cringey. I wouldn't want to share either.

It does sound like she's gotten involved in an MLM. I'm extremely morally against MLMs, so whilst I do have some sympathy for those taken advantage of by such scams, I feel very strongly against supporting them in any way, even if under the guise of "supporting a friend".

It's not an MLM as such, it's brands we'll have heard of and local venue reviews etc.
So it's not scentsy/ Arbonne or whatever.
Holland and barret or neom will pay or send them freebies to promote.
But they're all just promoting them to eachother - not the wider public is that makes sense? But because they're all sharing and liking each others posts I guess it looks successful?
It's like influencing on a really mundane level.

YANBU at all-it’s highly unlikely she’ll be earning any actual money from this stuff, just getting the freebies

I would tell her that you're not comfortable sharing her child to strangers online so won't be participating in sharing anything.

She's asking you to provide free marketing for the products she's selling, by distributing her ads to your personal network.

Just as you wouldn't go door-to-door for her posting flyers and endorsing her products in person, neither do you need to do this digitally.

I'd just ignore - and if she asks you to do it directly, say 'sorry, not how I use social'

Nb, I wonder how her children will feel being used as advertising, once they're old enough to realise/consent/object.

'Not how I use socials' is a really good line thank you.

@FatmanandKnobbin exactly this, I have my profile set to private (although I have quite a lot of friends/ followers) I don't ever share pics of my friends kids on there for that very reason

Ignore!