responses
By crickethear
@crickethear (1417)
United States
May 13, 2007 12:53pm CST
I am curious how you guys handle your friends list. Now I know there are times you can't respond because you either have nothing good to say about a subject, and or don't know about it. I don't expect my friends to answer every question, and respond. But what do you do when you are constantly for the most part responding to them, but they don't yours. Do you allow a certain amount of time, and then delete them? Most of my friends are really good, but I have several, who never, or hardly respond, and they are subjects, that everyone could find something to partipate in it. Do you delete them, or just no longer respond to theirs? Or what. Again, I don't expect a response from my friends each and every time. But when you don't get any, and you are conscientious about responding to them, what do you do?
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6 responses
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
14 May 07
I hoestly don't notice whether each and everyone of my friends responds. I certainly don't "expect" them to. The only reason I've deleted people is if I don't like what they are posting. I think I've deleted two. One was an insufferable egotist who was incredibly rude and nasty when I responded to one of his "am I not the most wonderful poster on Mylot" posts. Others responded simarlily to me and he almost blew a gasket...lol. He even carried on in a private message to me.
What I mostly do is turn off the alert of a friend who constantly posts silly topics that I can't respond to.
@crickethear (1417)
• United States
15 May 07
I guess I notice more because my list isn't that big. I don't expect a response on every single one, but I do expect some responses. Especially for those who post after post, and you reply to theirs constantly.
@rosie_123 (6113)
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13 May 07
Well I think it depends on a lot of factors. I wouldn't delete a friend straightaway, just because they didn't respond to a few discussions - perhaps they have family business, or work problems, and need to be away for a while........ but if they continually never responded I would probably delete them. This would be mainly because I feel that they may be "crowding" out my other friends' space, and making it more difficult for me to see discussions by other people, and helping them out.
@crickethear (1417)
• United States
13 May 07
yeah, I am not talking about just deleting and getting carried away. Like I said there are going to be discussions, you just can't respond to. I also know that sometimes you have personal issues going on. However, if a person has the time to make posts after posts, then they obviously don't have an issue preventing them from being on line, and therefore should be making an attempt to respond to their friends. Like I say they don't have to respond to every single one. I don't either, but I do try and make an effort to at least once a week, if not more.
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
13 May 07
Cricket that is the same here to so I give them a month and then I delete as I know then that they only want me to respond to them but they are not bothered about responding to me so if they havve not at least responded once in a month I will delete
@crickethear (1417)
• United States
13 May 07
I think that is a good method. You are right, after a month, then I guess I will delete them. They want only people to respond to them, but don't want to respond to anyone elses posts.
@sunshinelady (7609)
• United States
15 May 07
When you have a lot of friends here in mylot it is impossible to respond to all of the discussions. I do my best to respond to my friends discussions. I start out by going to the area that says discussions that my friends have started. I look at the discussions and sometimes I am not familiar with the subject or nothing good comes to mind to respond to the subject. I don't delete the friends I have listed but I do turn off their notifiying button.
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@crickethear (1417)
• United States
15 May 07
I try to keep my friends list manageable just for that reason. I want to be able to keep up with them, and be able to respond reasonably. If I get too many, there is no way, I would be able to, lol.
@charms88 (7538)
• Philippines
13 May 07
You already know what I felt about this subject matter, crickethear. Recently, I did delete three friends who are my fellow countrymen. They did nothing but to keep posting their own threads and forget about mine. Initially, I kept responding to their threads. I slowly noticed that they are nowhere in any of mine. You do know that I only post one discussion per day. If a friend posted 10 discussions, I will only choose 3. I can't respond to all of it as I still have many friend's discussions begging for me to respond, LOL!
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@crickethear (1417)
• United States
13 May 07
Yeah, there is no way you can respond to all, and I am aware of that. But there are those that never respond at all. They post one right after another, and I have no problem with that either, only when they make no effort to reciprocate to their friends.
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@mickidmw (992)
• United States
15 May 07
I try to respond to friends posts always, if I have nothing to add or no opinion, I will not post to it. There are a lot of things that can happen that makes a person not respond to a post, so just give them time, maybe they are on vacation or there puter is down or just working a lot of hours. Great post
