Middleton Facebook Group Admin Lashes Out At Businesses Who Won’t Give Him Money To Post On His Page, Denies Accusation Of Cat Sex, Defends Kiddie Porn Dad

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This is Eric Neal from Middleton.

And I have great news for the ladies out there, because I know you’re wondering – he’s single! However, he does have a dog named Clara who speaks to him and calls him “Papa.”

He owns a business registered in New Hampshire called PIF Solutions that does debt recovery. For instance, if some deadbeat owes you child support he apparently possesses the unique tools to find their bank and force them to pay you.

Prior to that he owned a company registered in Massachusetts called Neal and Associates. I’m not quite sure who in their right mind would ever give this man their hard earned money, or how they would find him in the first place, but he must be doing OK for himself since he’s not destitute. Probably because he wakes up earlier than you, grinds, and documents it on Facebook.

Eric has a lot going on and maintains a very active social life.

He also has a couple side gigs and brags about the money he’s making off of them. For instance, he started a YouTube channel that is monetized, and he makes $150 a month off of it. He also claims to be making a few hundred buck off of Patreon, affiliate marketing, and sponsors.

So obviously he’s a marketing genius and things are going great for him.

However, the numbers on his YouTube channel are very suspect. Some videos like this review of the “Worst GPS Ever” get less than 200 views.

Meanwhile, this one called “How to find someone’s YouTube comments” got 67K views, and hundreds of comments.

Do these sound like real people, or bots?

Yea, that sounds real. Who wouldn’t be interested in watching a 15 minute video about YouTube comments?

His YouTube channel mainly consists of self promotion, product reviews, and his own personal drama.

But what about the sponsors and Patreon? Those come from a local Facebook group he runs in Middleton, where he seems to be turning into a bootleg version of Greg Bates. The private group with 4K members is called Middleton Community Connection. It was supposed to be your typical townie Facebook group where people post about restaurants they recommend and where to find someone to plow your driveway. But it appears as if being an admin for a small group with just a few thousand people has gone to Eric Neal’s head, because he’s trying to turn it into his cash cow.

Having 4K people in a group is really not that many people, especially if the group is private and posts can’t be shared. There is little to no monetary value advertising in it, as most people don’t check the group every day, and over time posts get buried. But Eric seems to think that controlling a group with that many people makes him a lot more important than he actually is. In August he started whining about mean messages he was getting from people due to the seemingly arbitrary content moderation he was using for posts.

“I have three other groups with thousands of members.”

We get it dude. You’re a geeky loner who has a small amount of attention for the first time in his life, and it makes you feel a lot more important than you actually are.

In September Eric announced that he was going to start charging local businesses who posted about their restaurants on his very important Facebook page.

“I have a low tolerance for entitled businesses that believe they should get to advertise for free and I should be acting as their unpaid employee.”

You don’t do anything, and the page doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to Facebook, which created the infrastructure to allow the page to exist in the first place. At any point they can delete the page with a click of a button and you have no legal recourse because the page is not yours.

But it’s so much work because he has to manage (gasp) fake profiles!

Fake accounts on Facebook? Oh dear! It’s a full time job for Professor Nerdlinger to spend hours finding out if Dick Hertz from Holden is a real person.

In October he got more specific about what local business owners could and couldn’t do. Apparently if someone asked in the group where they could get a good sandwich, no restaurants were allowed to respond and recommend themselves, because that would be advertising. Also, employees of the business and family members of business owners could not recommend their businesses either.

Newsflash – the only reason this allegedly takes up so much of your time is because you choose to allow it take up so much of your time. Chill dude.

Nevertheless, he constantly whined about all the labor he was putting into taking posts down, and demanded that he be compensated for his invaluable work.

“Do you work for free?”

Not generally, but I also know that running a Facebook group isn’t something any normal person would expect to be compensated for.

In Greg Bates fashion he also attacks small business owners who don’t bend the knee to him.

 

In November he launched his Patreon with a video announcement explaining how membership would work.

Imagine giving your money to this turd so you can post a link to your business on his page that only 4K people have access to? You might as well throw your money away.

His Patreon offers different levels of membership, and the “gold package” allows you to post a link to your business once a week.

Sign me up!

And just like Greg Bates, Eric likes to slam business owners that don’t pay to “advertise” on the Facebook page.

He also publicly reprimands those who break his rules.

 

Two weeks into the Patreon he had a grand total of one business that was willing to give him money to enjoy the “benefits” of posting in the group.

But he got a couple more a few weeks later.

 

 

So clearly he is a business mastermind you should be paying money to for marketing advice.

 

Lately he’s been rubbing some people the wrong way though. Facebook now allows page admins to tag all members of a group by starting with “@everyone.” He did this earlier in the week to brag about how some Taekwondo center got suckered into giving him money. But a guy named Jason complained about being tagged in the post.

His complaint was legitimate. When people go on Facebook it’s up to them which pages they want to visit. If they like his page then they’ll go to it, which Jason said he regularly does. But if you don’t regularly check it, and you keep getting tagged in it, then it becomes annoying. Jason politely asked Eric to stop tagging him, but since Eric’s on a power trip he wasn’t going to be told what to do by some peon.

So Eric removed his comment and messaged Jason to explain why. Keep in mind, this is the same guy whining about the hours he puts into this, who is now choosing to come up with ways to spend more time running the page like a tyrant.

Eric then posted screenshots of their entire conversation on the page in order to shame Jason, or anyone else who thought they could question his authority.

People in the group have gotten a little tired of his power trip, and instead of considering that there might be things he could do differently he has elected to go the cunty route instead.

He also aired his beef with a rival Facebook group run by a woman named Carrie, who doesn’t charge people to post links to their businesses. In October he made a hilarious post crying about how someone in her group accused him of “having relations with cats.”

It’s not funny! He has no cats to fuck, Kathleen!

Eric constantly seems to be posting negative things about other people and their businesses, and seems to be addicted to drama.

It’s almost like it’s a pattern with him.

Two weeks ago he publicly named and shamed a woman named Janelle because one of her employees at the gym she runs posted a link to their page, which is in violation of his rules.

“This is very cringe for a business to do this. I hope I don’t see behavior like this again.”

Bruh, your entire demeanor is the very definition of cringe.

He’s also cracking down on family members who try to post links to businesses they don’t even own.

Again, this is why you have to put so many hours into it moron. Because you’re choosing to.

Every day it seems he makes a new rule. This week it was that business owners could post links to their events, as long as their motives were “altruistic.”

And he’ll decide what that is on a case by case basis, which will take up more time that he expects to be compensated for.

But wait, it gets better. It turns out that one of the people Eric has been trying to smear on his page is guilty of the crime of finding a blog that Eric wrote in 2013, in which he defends his father Stephen for downloading child pornography.

“99% of the porn was legal, while just 1% in the mix was illegal.”

Now THAT is cringe!

The bottom line is that people like this are the absolute worst, and they deserve to be called out. You’re not an important person if you run a community Facebook group, and it also violates Facebook’s rules for you to be charging people to comment on a page THEY own. Get over yourself, Greg Bates Jr.