In Desperation...

... don't do (in my opinion) stupid things.

Seriously.

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Sometime back, I +wrote about a secondary school friend who went into internet marketing+. I was checking my yahoo email today and saw that email she sent some months back. We never see her on email again. Trying to jog my memory (for what reason, I don't know), I clicked on the link.

There she goes, with all her "you know... you know..." and speaking with an accent (as if she is imitating some "ang moh" speaker). I tried to make out of the message that she was trying to convey. I still don't get it.

I tried to delete the extra string of text on the web address and wanted to see if I can get any updates from the URL. Nope. No updates other than the same entry with the video. So I browsed the index page, trying to find some clue to this internet marketing that she was talking about. Ahh... Spotted a prominent (rather, suspicious looking) name and yahoo-ed it (after so many years working with the internet, somehow, I've became very inept to search for things like that. Call me busybody).

Ah-ha! Clicked to this website... and Voila! Just as I suspected. The internet marketing "base" uses the similar operation methods as the one that my ex-colleague tried to sell me +couple of months ago+. Extracts from the "base"...

And XX also revealed that to become an expert,all you have to do is to read 5 books...

So nowadays they go by the education route... Buy the books, gain the knowledge, attend (many) talks /workshops (paid from your own pocket, the more the merrier) and make money!

Somewhere along the line, the website kept urging the readers (their team members) to get more tickets for workshops and talks, because they should not miss the special-invite opportunity, because they are running out of tickets! That they will have a headstart...

Yadda, yadda, yadda...

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Many of us are very eager to get out of our current situation. They are genuine needs, not some fluffy, flimsy fantasy that we made up. So, if there is an easy way out, most of the time, we will grab that, cross our fingers and hope for the best. And it's really, really easy to pick the simple way out.

But as I was saying... In desperation... Make wise choices.

Disclaimer:
I know it's easy for me to say all these things. The hard problems in reality cannot be knocked away with just some inspirational liners. Yours and mine. But please, please, please. Make wise decisions. It's not just your decision/choice/life. It also affects the others too.