This seems to be happening everywhere there is a user community (potential customers), such as LinkedIn and Twitter.

Many times, I’ve been “surprised” to find that, within a span of few hours, many people on LinkedIn/Twitter share similar anecdotes, punchlines, realizations, and everything in between. Of course, they all end with asking to say the MAGIC word(s) to reward the “selected few” in their DMs.

Gone are the days when we used to just give things out - here is the link to the zip file, download and do whatever you want.

Go ahead, “Say friend and enter.”

Edit/Update: About that “Tell”, honestly, I think a lot too many have no clue.