A Strange World

I'm trying to get all grown up about my writing.  I'm gearing up to self publish Tales from the White Hart (I may charge, still undecided, but the original will stay up to read for free) and I'm looking into advertising.  One of the things I've done is join some author groups.  All of a sudden there are a lot of friend requests that seem to come from nowhere. 

Most of them are awesome people.  They are writers like me and it's great to share ideas and sometimes cat memes.  However I am now getting messages.  I never used to get messages.  Now I have got a lot of invitations to Multi Level Marketing and some very dubious chat.  It's an eye opener.  I'm a middle aged old biddy who doesn't do dolly bird.  I haven't had the 'Hello ladeez' type greeting for years and I'm not happy to see it again.  I have never sent so many messages praising my husband in my life!

I have also had invitations to view pictures of an adult nature.  The invitations are to something aimed traditionally at gentlemen.  I am not a gentleman.  Perhaps their bot needs a tune up. 

My first reaction was to step back and blink.  However I think it can turn out incredibly entertaining and possibly generate plot ideas.