Posted on Jan 29, 2015

Making Connections to Spam Fellow Servicemembers. DON'T DO IT.

Cpl Anthony Pearson

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I recently received a connection request from a fellow servicemember. I'm always interested in becoming buddies with my military brothers and sisters, and networking is a good thing for most of us. Anyway, not two seconds later, I had a private message from this person spamming me with a book that he is selling.

Please... don't do that.

It just feels weird, and invalidates the connection request.

If you have something to sell, write a story about it - talk it up. Discuss it and share a link at the end of your story.

Not sure if anyone else has connected with a RallyPoint person, only to receive a message asking to buy a book or something.

It's uncool. Please, don't do it. Stop.

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SSgt (Join to see)

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I am the enforcer PV2 (Join to see) . Is there a lady with that name who is not attractive? Senile minds like mine want to know. lol

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Capt Richard I P.

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Multi-level marketing (MLM) which bears some similarity to pyramid schemes, but is a legal and occasionally successful model of business is highly corrosive to most friendships. It makes your existing friends feel awkward when you approach them and people you meet new think you're only interested in selling.

I've experienced some of that here and some of that in real life.

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