When Someone Responds Back To Your Discussions
By KrauseHome
@KrauseHome (36448)
United States
August 26, 2009 8:42am CST
Do you just thank them, and move on to the next person and respond back to them, or do you go and check out the discussions that person might have started and see if their is a discussion you can respond back too? I am sure there are many here who just respond back, choose a Best Response, and then move on and start a New discussion. But then I am sure there are many who will go in and check out that person's discussions and see if their is a discussion that person has started that they can answer here as well.
I know for me, it often depends on who the person is, and what type of response I get back from my discussions for sure. There are many people here I know and Trust and feel they make this site what it is, and it is often very worth checking into their discussions and responding back to something they started as well. But then if I did this with everyone I would never get responded back to all of the responses here on my discussions as well.
But personally I feel the Best way to get to know others especially on your friends list is to respond back to one anothers discussions and help them out. So if someone is a Good friend and responds back to one of mine I will go check out the discussions and see if there is something that I can respond back too as well. I know it takes time, but when you do this I think it helps develop real friends and you can only help yourself more from there.
Waiting to see what others think here, and wishing you all the Best.
~~TINA~~
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21 responses
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
27 Aug 09
Hi Tina! I try to do the same thing too! When someone responds
back to one of my few and far between discussions I do take
notice and will check them out and see if I can respond to
their discussions too! I also notice people's responses when
I am responding to other peoples discussions and that's how
I have met some of my other good friends! You can notice alot
when you are in someone elses discussions by just reading
other peoples responses! You can get to know them too! And
then you can go check out their discussions after that!
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@tintukm (1102)
• India
26 Aug 09
The process I now follow here,is continuing the discussion by commenting this makes me well aware of the a person's attitude and nature,this way it's good to be in touch with everyone, understanding a person more is good for a healthy discussion.I always try to respond back too.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
1 Sep 09
For me it all depends on my mood. Sometimes I will respond back and then bring up a tab to look into other's discussions. Sometimes it's someone to whom I frequently respond to, and comment with! lol! Sometimes it's someone new who piques my interest, though either way, it does help out! Each other and ourselves! lol!
@tdemex (3540)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I don't do many posts, I'm more of a response Guy! I've made a lot of fun friends here and don't normally seek more. I've got a lot of good friends and do get a lot of requests from newbies, I spend time trying to help them as well as chastise them for posting links! LOL! When I get a request from someone with a lot of posts that's when I'll go in and check out their past or do a background check! 
tdemex
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@patofgold23 (5069)
• Philippines
27 Aug 09
when i get really good responses, I go and check their profile ... it kinda telle me whre their responses are coming form.
most of our replies saya a lot about our age, status, culture, stuf like that.
and if i find something interesting on their discussions , i take my pick and respond to it too...
most of the intelligent responses I get managed to come up with nice and intersting topics so i like that...
if i get short responses that are very shallow, like "yea, me too" and other three-word responses... or something like "i agree, happy myLotting!"... I don't bother that much to look into their profile.
@cvrajan (354)
• India
26 Aug 09
I weigh the quality of response to decide whether I should go and look in to the person's profile and see whether any of his/ her discussion is of interest to me.
Generally, my preference is to respond to such of those discussions in which I can respond with some fun/ humor, something that I can personally relate to, something on which I can add some more value or something on which I can stir up some controversy (!)
@rosepedal64 (4188)
• United States
26 Aug 09
crvajan...I like the humor,fun and a real time too. I try to start discusssions on different things and I always try to give my opinion in a nice way. I have this motto that I carry with me. If you can't say nice things then just run away.
Oh yeah I sent you a friends request...
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
26 Aug 09
Hi KrauseHome, I do it the other way usually, when I get a f/r I look to see if I'd be interested in what they have to say and respond to some of their discssions then,if they have nothing up which interests me then there'd be no point in adding them. Sometimes I do get the odd response from someone I haven't seen before which makes me think and I check them out too. If I like what I see then I'll request them, but I wouldn't feel the need to look up on many responses in that way. I often look at where people are from though before I comment on their responses, suppose I just like to know.
@lkbooi (16070)
• Malaysia
27 Aug 09
Hi Tina, after adding comment to the response received, sometimes I might move to the following response and keep on adding comments. Sometimes I like to visit the profile of the responder to see whether there is any interesting topic that suits my taste 
I like to thank the responder by answering his discussion in return. Very often we could find some good topics there. Yeah, I agree that this is the good way to help the new users. Really, we need considerable time to do posting in this way.
I know I always do mylot posting depending on the mood of the day. I sometimes feel reluctant to share my idea in certain topics. This taste would change in the other day and I have interest again to deal with the former discussions which I totally don’t have any mood to cope with them earlier. This happens as well when adding comment in the responses of my discussion.
Happy posting and have a nice day!
I like to thank the responder by answering his discussion in return. Very often we could find some good topics there. Yeah, I agree that this is the good way to help the new users. Really, we need considerable time to do posting in this way.
I know I always do mylot posting depending on the mood of the day. I sometimes feel reluctant to share my idea in certain topics. This taste would change in the other day and I have interest again to deal with the former discussions which I totally don’t have any mood to cope with them earlier. This happens as well when adding comment in the responses of my discussion.
Happy posting and have a nice day!
@ElicBxn (63252)
• United States
26 Aug 09
if someone responds to my discussion and I have something to ADD to their response, I add it, if not, no, I don't thank them, that is actually against mylot rules... If I really LIKE their response I might go check them out, maybe respond to a discussion or request their friendship
@mamacathie (3928)
• United States
26 Aug 09
It really depends on how they answered the discussion. If they might have said something to me that touched me or if they say something that really interests me I will check out their profile. Then if they have some of the interests that i have I will request to be friends with them.
Thanks for the discussion.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
26 Aug 09
hi krause yes I think that is what I do as I usually go to my'friends first before anything else and respond as often as I can assuming the'
discussions are at all interesting and then I find that these same friends have almost all responded to my discussions.I do have an amazing group of friends that were concerned wheni was gone so long'I am happy to always try to respond to all their discussions too.
@Archie0 (5642)
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26 Aug 09
Well it is really not possible for me to go every respondents page and search and reply their discussion as with this i will be able to do only few discussions per day, i rather thank them, rate everyone positive and some best responses and i always answer other discussions frm my friends and those which dont have responses.
@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
27 Aug 09
I have been responding to, starting discussions, and giving BRs. You have some good points here, though, and I may consider doing some of them. Kathy.
@taztheone (1721)
• India
26 Aug 09
hey Tina, its a good topic you've started. Well whenever I start a new Discussion Ill ensure that I'll comment them back for their responses & Always give responses to my friends Discussions. Since I am new to this place, there is still a lot more to learn.
@DCLehnsherr (1037)
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26 Aug 09
I have to admit that I have never done that. I have checked out the pages of the people who have responded to my discussions, but when it comes to finding discussions to respond to I tend to do that by searching around in the interests for something that I like and am compelled to respond to. I think maybe if there was something on the page of a person that really caught my attention when I looked, then I would reply to that. But I don't actively go to pages to seek out things to respond to since I do want to make sure that the topics I reply to genuinely interest me, so looking in the interests works better for me overall.
From reading what you have just said though maybe in the future I will see about doing that. I currently am not on here all that much and so I like to catch up on things that happened after I last came here, and then move on...though that probably makes me a bad friend in retrospect but I connect best through comments I think, rather than exchanging discussion responses. I can get deeper into something that way :)
All that said I have only been here a week so things are liable to change in the future :)
Happy mylotting,
Dranz
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
26 Aug 09
If somebody comes by my discussions once, I might not make a point to go visit them, depending on how busy I am. But if they're coming by regularly, I do go and see what discussions they have. And if they're at all interesting, I'll respond to at least one of them.
@dlr297 (5409)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I do not start many discussions my self, but when i respond to a discussion of a new person i sometimes check their profile to see what other discussions they have started, and see if they have other discussions that i can respond too. I think that it is a good way to see if you share the same interests, and it is a good way to make new friends.
@krajibg (11923)
• Guwahati, India
26 Aug 09
Hi Tina,
Just the other day I had posted almost similar post. Well, my method is to when I receive any response I try to comment back and after completing the round I recheck if any new thing detained comment there again and move. I was hell frustrated not getting comment from my response to different post I would post. Now I realize that this is useless if you know that responding this or that user you would not get comment back so select or keep the notification of the friend on who you trust and no off the ones who are not responding kind.
@rosepedal64 (4188)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I have gotten alot of friends by doing this. I will make a comment to their post and look and see who they are. When Im done with comments I go back and check the profiles. If it someone that I might have something in common with I will send a friends request. So if anyone has gotten a friends request from me, then I am legit. I am wanting to make new friends. That is something that I really don't have online.
@LetranKnight25 (33121)
• Philippines
26 Aug 09
Often, Yes but most of the time i just responded with them with added compliments, solutions and clarifications to their response. i don't just say thank you. they didn't just response to my topic just to be appreciated, they also want to know more or at least if you see that there's missing in his/her message, then you can add it a bit
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@uchihamadaraXXX (117)
• Philippines
26 Aug 09
No my friend I do not just leave a them after they have responded, I either rate them if their post is good or send them a friend request.
