In my sophomore year of college, a new craze had started to take over the internet. All these women I had known from high school had started to post about new jobs they had- all by working from their phone. Every day I was bombarded on my newsfeed with happy smiling faces of girls I'd once known, talking about products that they loved and how easy it was for them to make money from their phone. Being the broke college student I was (and let's face it, still am), I couldn't help but find out more information.

In the coming weeks, I'd come to learn what this new business was. An old idea: network marketing. The idea is that you as an independent distributor for a company, "own" part of the business. You're able to work on your own time and how you want to. A great idea, so it seems.

For a lot of people, businesses like this are great. They're able to find people to work for them, to "join their team" as they usually say, and are able to get others to try and buy their products. But for me, this never felt right. The products I was selling didn't work very well; I had tried them myself. Every day, I was supposed to add more and more people on social media and invade their inboxes with messages of new products coming out and new incentives for joining the business. For the company I worked for, keeping up with this system of messaging and adding on social media was the key to success.

Now, in a lot of ways, working like this helped me. It helped me learn new things about social media I didn't know before, and it did help me make new friends. But in the end, network marketing wasn't for me. I didn't have the confidence in the products we were selling, and I didn't feel right about shoving them in people's faces.

I couldn't handle the "job" because I couldn't handle what people were saying about me. A lot of my friends on social media deleted me, they couldn't stand seeing these posts anymore. On an anonymous website at my school, people were saying that I wasn't good enough to sell the products. I was getting harassed and teased left and right, I couldn't take it anymore.

So I quit. I stopped posting, I left the groups I was part of for the company, and I took down the website people used to order from me. I don't regret my time with network marketing, but it isn't something I would ever go back to. It wasn't for me, and that's okay.

After over a year of being out of the "business", I still see girls posting about these products and opportunities. I support them. They're doing great. I've seen businesses and companies like these completely change people's lives, and it's a wonderful thing for those people.

To all the "business owners" on social media, keep pushing if it's for you. If you're doing well, keep at it and don't listen to what others say about it. But if it's not for you, like it wasn't for me, it's okay to say that you're done.