Mylot friends..

Hi marilynlynn, There's a bunch of different factors that influence my own decisions to accept a friend invitation or to make a friend request. Whatever factors are involved, they generally say something about the target of the transaction. I'm much more inclined to accept a friend invitation if I like the person's avatar, which in some cases conveys a lot of info about the person. If a person has made contributions which I respect or impress me, or otherwise harmonizes with my way of thinking, then that will also encourage me to accept a friend invitation. I rarely go and check out a person's home page on myLot before becoming a friend. I'm also basically lazy, and don't often go out of my way to make a friend request unless I'm particularly entertained or otherwise attracted to someone's avatar or forum contributions. I reckon it's as well to limit friends mostly to like-minded people, simply because that allows the most interesting & productive use of one's limited time on myLot. But it's always a bonus if a friend is good to look at too ;)

I pick and choose my friends on their smartness,sense of humor and wittiness.I have come across some smart snobs here.I just don't continue my friendship with them. You can feel the vibe after five to six discussions.

Marilyn, as far as adding friends I think we all just kinda fall into each others lap. The real friendships are made in the sharing with each other. I can not tell you how many good people there are on mylot. Or that I am privileged to call my friends. It just happens.

I have only requested a few friends. The rest have requested me. I accept all the friend requests that I get. I guess I am not too choosy about who my friends are.

When I first registered I used to accept everybody as a friend but some just want to be your friend to plug their businesses etc, so now I look at the profiles and see if we have common interests, look at discussions started and would they be ones I could reply to and get involved in and others because they seem to answer many of mine and I like the responses. I am building up quite a few myself now and they all seem bo be such lovely people. God Bless Ellie :D

well all my friends here have kinda picked me. your the only friend i have on here, that i sent the request to. i try to pick people who have real dicussion. not just asking simple questions, but dicussions that have meaning to them

Unfortunately due to paucity of time, I do not pick any. A lot of them send friend's request and without even looking at their profile, I just approve them. If they give one response to my discussion topic, I take a link from there to go to their profile and respond to their discussion. But this does not seem to work, though I intend to continue this. As a result, most of the so called friends sit on the other side of fence most of the time.

I don't really pick and choose my friends. The advice when I started here was to add everyone. The more friends you have, the more that would be likely to answer your discussions. ofcourse i found out that even though i have pages of friends, most of my responses to my discussions get answered by people that aren't on my friends list yet. I think probably 80 percent of my friends list are inactive now. so however you choose to do it is up to you :)

I was asked by a member to join and a few of us joined at the same time so I started with a few friends. I have only asked a few people and that was because they had a lot of interests in common but I haven't asked any for a while, as it isn't much point if the interests are too different. I will add anybody tho unless all they want to do is plug money making sites.