MLM Bot Watch 61: enquire within upon everything pyramid-shaped

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New Fred! Welcome all!

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/legal_money_matters/a3906058-mlm-bot-watch-60-it-takes-a-village-to-sink-an-island?msgid=97414452#97414452

Ooh Broke's deleted his live from this morning when he's off his face and whining about his ex! Wonder if someone had a word with him

Oh what a shame, I missed that

Believe me, Sponge, it was just usual car crash stuff . He will do another one soon, don't worry.

You've got to marvel at a homeless person doing attraction marketing at all, let alone with the hashtag #GroundFloorToPenthouse

He doesn't even have a ground floor.

It truly baffles me how anyone wants to get involved with Broke's business.

I know we all love our children dearly, and perhaps I am a nasty person for thinking this, but Nurse’s constant sickly Insta stories about how much she loves her son seem a bit... yucky?

I agree sponge. Obviously she loves her child. She seems to believe he is amazingly funny too. He is just a normal boy who plays. If I was to put posts on FB like that constantly I think people would tell me to stop being such a bore.

I think nurse posts all that stuff as attraction marketing because she doesn't have much else going on. The MLM model is posting random stuff to get engagement.

Part of loving our children is protecting them. Using them or sharing too much of them on social media really worries me. Aside from the use of private images for attraction marketing purposes etc, if someone wanted to it would be possible to find out an awful lot about some of the huns’ children; names, DOB, schools, home addresses etc. Not just yucky but risky too.

I can see the attraction marketing when it’s showing off a flashy holiday or your child in the back seat of a posh car (still highly questionable sharing photos of your kids though) but when it’s the same tiny room and tiny patio garden? Won’t make people covetous.

Someone's just posted on a local Facebook group asking for recommendations for jobs she can do from home.

Cue the bots.

FL, Avon and FM so far. I don't have the energy to intervene.

@Spongebobette I guess it’s also about just keeping up a constant presence in everyone’s SM, and Nurse has got to work with the footage she’s got. No attraction marketing in the true sense of the word for Nurse because she’s unable to buy the props of deceit, mainly because most of her money is in Yawn’s wallet. But you’re right, Nurse is probably at the bottom of the food chain and will remain there, unable to sell the dream she’s never going to realise herself.

Has anyone seen there is yet another MLM thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3941110-to-think-this-is-a-really-thoughtless-message

There's a term for sharing your children without consent on SM, isn't there? The worrying thing is that I am not befriended to Nurse, but her stories are totally public. Her "business" group is private, but her son is out there for the whole world to see. So other than me that would be some less than kosher characters will potentially ill intentions.

That goes for all bots by the way. I would consider it a major safeguarding issue!

See MLM Lies exposed current thread re Younique bot

Even before lockdown most bots were scrabbling around trying to find something to post about. By and large they just Don't. Do. Anything.
They don't go on holiday, they don't post about socialising unless it's with other bots, they don't go out for nice meals (Wagamama definitely doesn't count), they don't even just go to the pub. We know they don't, because if they did they'd be sure to post about it.
So it's dogs, kids and painting old bits of furniture. Hardly selling the dream.

@acatcalledjohn it's called sharenting. The BBC have had quite a few articles targeted at adults about it over the past couple of years but I notice they have also started writing material for kids suffering from it: www.bbc.com/ownit/its-personal/8-ways-to-spot-a-sharent

Jasper I totally just misread that as sharting!

Thanks! I knew there was a word!

To be fair, when sharenting takes on extreme levels it's as unpleasant as sharting

@Getthekettleon2020 that thread is a bit vague. What’s going on?

I can't cope. Castles BFFs BFF with twins has as in one Instagram post told us how it's great that she can spend lots of time at home with her children. But on the other hand has shown pictures of her children settling in at nursery.

Like I said, I can't cope. 😂😂😂😂

@BSintolerant - it would appear that a top Younique bot based in Wales was previously done for importing & reselling counterfeit goods.

Ah ... thank you @Twentytwentyhindsight. She’s lucky she only got a suspended sentence.

I don’t feel any sympathy for them, but it must be exhausting to have to continually live your life on social media in the name of attraction marketing. Constantly putting out something “interesting”, trying to get engagement, putting a positive spin on everything and trying to relate almost everything back to their bizniz, no matter how tenuous.

Although they say they can run their bizniz in “pockets of time”, I bet they don’t include all this constant posting on social in that.

From a bot’s website - hosted by the company of course, for which they charge her... disclaimer in the last paragraph which presumably they have to include - somewhat jars with the rest of the statement?

I started my business to take control of my life, create a future that offered me and my family real financial security and the freedom to live the life of my choice. Developing the business under the umbrella of Forever Living Products offered an opportunity where I could succeed in building the lifestyle I really wanted, be rewarded for my hard work, and help others do the same and I could do this with an unrivaled support system to help me reach my goals.

Forever is a $2.8 billion global company, in the ever growing health and wellness market, with an impeccable track record, and enviable and consistent growth throughout their 42 year history - $1m a year 1978, $1m a day 1981, now $2.8 billion and still growing.

With the choice of a safe, flexible part-time income, right through to a substantial and uncapped income - with more work of course - you can develop multiple revenue streams, drive the car of your choice, qualify for all expenses paid global travel, and enjoy a share of the company's turnover.

Importantly everyone in our company endorses the statutory protection that it is illegal for a promoter or participant in a trading scheme to persuade anyone to make a payment by promising benefits from getting others to join a scheme. Please do not be misled by claims that high earnings are easily achieved.