As well as sharing my time as a former Younique hun (remember, #Younique is #Poonique), I would also like to share my observations and opinions about the activities of present-day MLM bots.

Let’s start with…

Random Friend Requests

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Back when I was a hunbot, our Imperial Elite Green Overlord Presenter, Tania, set daily and weekly challenges for us, her “First Generation” downlines.

The key one – which I flat-out refused to do – was “add ten new Facebook friends every day.”

Tania’s logic was, add new friends, be positive, ‘like’ and comment on every one of their posts for a week so we’d appear in their newsfeed, and eventually strike up a conversation about our “amazing opportunity” and how wonderful the products are.

Obviously I will go into more depth on this in future chapters of my tale, as the main point of this article is to offer some friendly advice to the hunbots out there.  

So listen up – whether you’re Younique, Juice Plus, Forever Living, LulaRoe or any of those other pyramid schemes floating around…

THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE RANDOM FRIEND REQUESTS

Do I need to repeat myself here?

THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE RANDOM FRIEND REQUESTS – ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE “CEO OF MY LIFE 🙂 ” OR “YOUNIQUE REP ❤ ❤ ” AS YOUR JOB TITLE.

The general consensus is – random friend requests are really irritating.  I have received plenty of requests from Juice Plus peddlars on my personal profile – clearly they are targeting people who look a bit plump in their profile picture! 😉

I don’t know about you all, but the first thing I do when I get a random friend request is look at their job title.  Identifying a hunbot is evident from their job title, or an abundance of selfies where they are clutching their miracle products.  Quite predictable…but the poor dears are just trying to build their empires.  Perhaps they are lonely; having alienated most of their friends, it is possible that they are searching for new ones to fill the void?

Nope.  That hunbot has definitely been encouraged to add you by her “upline” or her “business coach”.  They are obediently following their Imperial Overlords’ instructions, in order to sucker-in more unsuspecting souls and transform them into MLM bots. 😉

Yes, folks most certainly do not like unsolicited friend requests from people they don’t know.

Of course, I would not make such a bold statement without proof, so I have provided necessary evidence.  You can also verify my intensive investigation for yourselves – simply go to Twitter and type “fuck off Younique” or “fuck off Juice Plus” into the search bar…you’ll be amazed at what you find.

For your own amusement – here are a selection of the best.  For info – all of these tweets are in the public domain, and accessible by all.  Simply click to enlarge your view.

The “fuck off Younique” results…

 

And just for a bit of variety, the results from “fuck off Juice Plus“…

As before, simply click to enlarge your view.

 

And there we have it.  So, dear MLM hunbots – repeat after me:

THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE RANDOM FRIEND REQUESTS

Do the right thing – if you’ve added that random person with the intention of “working your bizniz at them”, cancel that unsolicited friend request quick stat. 😉

I would also like to add that I am now fighting the MLM fight on social media – if you’re on Twitter, please give @ElleBeauBlog a follow (and help me get the #Poonique hashtag trending again!).  Alternatively, find Elle Beau, the Anti-Blogger on Facebook.

Please, also check out the good work of my anti-MLM allies at Bot Watch and the other talented writers featured on my Recommended Reading page.  They work tirelessly to expose the truth and lies of the MLM industry, so anyone considering this line of work can make a fair, informed decision .