About 2 months after Facebook became live on the Internet a guy I know sent me a friend request. I didn’t know what Facebook was so I left the email alone for awhile and then one day I finally clicked on the link, accepted the friend request and registered. He sent me a message saying he was happy I’d joined and almost right away a couple other people I knew through him also sent me friend requests. They already had many friends signed up and some of them sent me friend requests too even though I didn’t actually know them I accepted the request. In the beginning I thought it was weird that people who had never met me in person wanted to be my friend. I joined a couple of groups - schools I went to and organizations I was part of - and signed up people I really knew as friends. I even sent friend requests to a few people I didn’t know but were friends of friends. Still seems weird.
Facebook was kind of a good thing. I’ve reconnected with people I lost contact with many years ago. I’ve also met some new people through various groups. I’m not huge on Facebook but I check it and post photos and send messages to friends and family. I’m not on there every hour changing my status or seeing what my friends are doing but I’m on a few times a week. I can see why its also known as Lamebook or Crackbook but fortunately I’m not that addicted.
Back in the early days of Facebook whenever somebody posted a comment on your friend’s wall that would show up on your news feeds too. Actually get kind of annoying seeing all these comments that people you don’t know have written on other people’s walls and on and on it’d go. It hasn’t been like that in years.
There’s a woman who I’ve never met but we’re both members of the same online group and have friends in common so we became Facebook friends but we don’t interact all that much. One day I noticed some man had posted a comment to her wall because it showed up in my news feed. The fellow’s photo showed him dressed in a suit and he’d written a message to the effect of thank you for accepting my friend request and I look forward to networking with you in the future.
I thought that was a little weird for someone to say. When you get a new friend on Facebook you write a little hello message and maybe compliment their photos. But looking forward to networking with someone? Screams Amway all over it.
Ambot didn’t sign on to Facebook until after he joined Amway. The sack of shit Platinum would bring it up mostly when he was talking about the name list all IBO’s have to make of people they know. He said if you have 800 900 1000 friends on Facebook you can prospect them all as potential IBO’s or customers.
That seems creepy to me. I’d say if you have more than a couple of hundred friends on Facebook you probably don’t know all of them personally. Using Facebook to snipe friends for the sole purpose of being Amway prospects just seems screwy to me.
But Ambot decides the Platinum might actually know something and spends all his free time and there’s not much of that when you’re involved in Amway looking to snipe new friends he can prospect into the Amway cult. He goes nutso signing up “friends” and Facebook suspended his account. I believe there is a maximum amount of “friends” you’re allowed to sign up daily and he exceeded it. He was getting warning messages from Facebook saying he was approaching his daily limit of friends and that he would get blocked if he didn’t stop. And then his account got suspended! Ha! Did it not occur to Ambot that Facebook puts limits in effect to stop people from spamming or signing up “friends” for business purposes - like potential Amway prospects! Like Ambot is the first person involved in an MLM who thought about using Facebook to prospect for recruits!
Its also possible that some of these unknown friends were complaining to Facebook or maybe after a person gets enough declines on friend requests that Facebook suspends them.
For all the effort Ambot put into signing up unknown people as Crackbook friends and I’d have to say he got a couple of hundred he never got a single one of them to an Amway meeting or purchase any products.
That would be over 99% failure rate recruiting Amway prospects on Facebook. Get used to it. Amway has over 99% failure rate in making money at their scam too.