Aibu about being asked to share friends business posts

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My friend is recently divorced, has recovered from a serious illness, had to downsize, and is now a single parent (with her ex having the children every other weekend). Just including this background to explain how difficult the past couple of years have been for her.

She has started a new business which is quite niche and is frequently messaging me (around two to three times a week) asking me to share posts with friends, school mums, or on Instagram/stories

On one hand, I admire how she is rebuilding her life and being proactive. On the other, I find the repeated requests really awkward and don’t really want to be promoting her business particularly in WhatsApp chats with other friends.

So, AIBU not to want to do this?

YABU – I should support my friend by sharing posts, booking links, or her website regularly

YANBU – She is asking too much, and it isn’t my responsibility to find clients for her

Depends what the business is for me.

Also, can’t you just say yes and then not actually post it?

No. I despise people trying to force me to repost shit no matter what it is. I especially hate those moronic posts saying "I know those who care about me will copy and paste this" and it's usually some long arsed moan about some tedious crap noone cares about. I always deliberately ignore those.

So to answer you- no, you are not being unreasonable to not share it. It's your social media feed and you can put whatever you damn well like on it. If you want to share it then do it, if you dont, then dont. Noone else has a say and noone else gets to judge. If your friend loves it so much then she can post it on HER feed.

If a friend kept sharing business posts with me I'd suggest if she'd been hacked.

Tell her to back off - nicely.

I’d post it every so often on my insta story that will be gone in 24 hours but I wouldn’t go any further tbh. You’ll just become that annoying person/mum who just keeps posting the same thing. I think the responsibility really is hers and you can give it all the thumbs up , likes and loves there…

I do support my friends businesses by buying the items, bigging it up every time they post but realistically I can’t keep sharing on my socials . Maybe tell her if she keeps going on that you’ll share stuff when she does competitions and giveaways

Just give her a thumbs up when she asks and move on with your day.

Thanks for this, great advice here! Think I’ll just do some thumbs ups and not engage with it - and happy to share when it’s a competition or similar.

How about ‘I’ll definitely recommend you if any of my friends are looking’. I think fine to support her if there’s an opportunity, but I wouldn’t spam my social circle.

Is it a mlm business? If so this kind of behaviour is encouraged!
sounds like u will annoy all your friends if u keep posting?