Friends Are Not Prospects

Everybody is selling!
One of the realities in social networking is this:
Some of our FB contacts don't really consider us as friends, but PROSPECTS.
Last month, I had to 'unfriend' and block some contacts who unscrupulously tagged me with their marketing yadah yadah WITHOUT my permission.  It was a tough decision on my part because I honestly considered those people friends.

Facebook is a wonderful thing. But it seems that some people don’t really understand what true Permission Marketing really is . So, let the marketers sell us their commodities with our permission, and not hide from the guise of friendship. Give us a choice to follow them or not.

As we observe, this reality is even more pronounced outside the social networking sites. Some people around us who claimed to be our 'friends' are not actually friends in the real sense. According to Aristotle, "relationships based on profit or pleasure should not be called friendships at all."

Real friendship needs time, shared activities, fun and challenging situations. Real friendship does not bring one another to perils. Real friendship does not control, nor condone corruption. Real friendship brings the real person out in each other. Real friendship does not sell nor use each other.

You’ve Got A Friend…

Father,
Thank You for the friends around us.
We may be true friends to the people
Who consider us friends.
May our friendship bring us closer to Your Son
Jesus Christ, our true Friend who died for us.
Amen.

photo: Lie To Me| posted by john b. bejo