Spamming your friends

I just ignore those, but I added a new friend who has a goal to educate everyone about the quran. Keeps quoting her scriptures, etc. If it does not show evidence of something else soon, she will be out of there. On the referral links, I guess it depends on how persistent they are ( very persistent is very annoying) and if they interact with me in any other way. I do have friends who will casually mention that they are having good results with such and such. Like I said, they are actually friends who respond to my posts and such. It is more like information shared over coffee.

I have not really experienced this situation here....but I would not be happy about it if I did....Several of my friends PM me quite regularly...but not for something so lame as this...I would be offended... I do not blame you at all, my new friend.

Yes, it has happened to me! I also deleted them immediateley. It just make you feel, they don't want to be your friend, and that we are being used. I don't come onto mylot that anymuch anymore, but have a couple of people that I consider good friends and reply to their posts. You are one of them. Sending you an email now!

I have this happen to me as far as pm's go. I have had people send me the same message over and over. They should be getting rid of people like this. Instead they are going after people that have a lot of money in their account. I have a friend who mylot owes $60 and they have made her account inaccessible and will not give her the $60. So she opens another account...and they steal a dollar right out of her account! This is happening to others, too. All the while, you have people spamming and doing nasty things, and they do not touch them! I do not believe this is a glitch or a quirk!

Same thing happened to me. And half of them starts with... can you help me please, etc. My good heart would put aside what I was doing and look at that pm.. only to realise it is some referral link. As a rule of thumb, I generally ignore people who send me referral links without me asking for it.

I couldnt agree more Anni, and sadly I have stopped coming here alot because of what I think is total spam, in messages, I will be going through my friends and deleting quite a few of it. I must admit I do send referral links in messages, but ones I have done that is to people I think might enjoy the place, and come to think about it, that was only hubpages, whihc I thoroughly enjoy! It is rude if not requested and is really an abuse of the "friends" system here.

I am picky about who I approve friends requests for. I did have that happen to me once. He posted in my comments after he sent me a message spamming me. I replied to him saying only if he signs up for one of my sites & was active in my downline. After a few days of nothing happening, I deleted his comment, removed him from my friends list, & went on a reporting spree on him. He did have several discussion (spam) that was against the MyLot guidelines, & they were deleted. Gee - that was fun, worth the earnings I was NOT earning in just posting.

Spamming is menace in the internet world and one can't avoid it. I too had the same experience from the so-called friends.

Hi Annie.. Yes honestly you are just right about that. Two things here, first you mentioned a very good point it is something i wanted 2 start a discussion about, which is friends whom you spent time and effort to respond to their discussion and not even a single comment or reply from them, in other words, you bothered urself to participate and put that effort but they did not even bother to leave at least a comment there, they never even show up and participate in the discussion u posted. Secondly the u have ur inbox loaded with msgs and websites on things that are not even relavant 2 ur circle of interests. I agree u can recommend a link 2 someone if he either requested that or u felt he needed it but elctronically abusing ur friend with bulk msgs damn i just can't stand it, but to some people here, myLot is a just place of making money, this is what concerns them the most, not the quality of the discussion so i guess that's why they won't bother 2 participate in ur discussions. I got some on my list like that and frankly speaking I feel disappointed coz the reason I have them on my list wasn't about money-making thing but mainly 2 have friends and exchange ideas and experiences. Yes it happened to me sometimes i used to receive in my inbox loads of forwards msgs that are not really a part of my interest. Thank you for the interesting topic.

This is not acceptable AT ALL, in fact no referral links should be posted unless they are requested. I really do not like when people post referral links on here when no one asked for them. It is wrong to get private messages with referral links when you didn't ask them. It is just called common knowledge to not do it. Pablo

I had a similar experience a few months ago. I added a person to my friends and the following day I got a lengthy message full of referral links. Of course, I deleted that person right away as if we do not have enough spam already in our email boxes. Now, I check the person's profile before accepting any friend request.

I haven't experienced spamming on MyLot, ha ha I'm hardly here but my personal email box can't cope sometimes, even with a good software program the little suckers keep on slipping through! I just ignore it. But on a social site like this I think it is disgusting.

I often read about mylotters complaining about their mail. What mail exactly. Do we have a mail box that I don't know about or do I not have any friends on mylot?

well i`m newbie(first time coming) and i dont want to disturb nobody because its bad for my aura and how people will think im good or bad? sure bad...so i would like only to say...BAN THE SPAMMERS! although i like this site...Ty

oh man... my e-mail adress is daily spammed by stupid matrimonial websites like hi5.com or other site's like this one, i have about 300 people in my yahoo messenger list, imagine all of them sending me crap... there are many people who just sign up , send e-mails to all of their list and after 1-2 days they don't even come back on that website, so what's the point of singing on so many websites...