What's the deal with online friends?

Hi, Wow, 10,000 friends in myLot. That is really a lot. If all those friends are referrals then that person will be making money in myLot without doing much work. I make friends in myLot when people add me or I will add people myself. I don't care whether they have high star rating or not. Sooner or later, their rating will go up. I just want to make friends in myLot, start discussions and make money.

I personally don't want to add people to my friends list. I don't see the point of adding people you don't know. What's most irratiting is the same people trying to add you all the time. You would think after the first deny they would take the hint....NOT.

I have always wondered that as well. For me, I would think the whole idea behind wanting to add someone to your Friends list would be to get to know them by their discussions that they start here, and have them become a Big part of this site as well. For me, when I have a newer person request being a Friend of mine, a lot of times I will leave them there a couple of days to see if they will be active on here or not. If they are active, then I add them, if not, I deny them. Because I feel that if you want a Friend you have to be a Friend, and that does not mean SPAM them here either. Just my thoughts.

He seems to be a collector of friends. Have not across that person you mention. But I have many newbies requesting to be my friend and some with zero to their names. I think they have to start somewhere so I oblige to their request. I have never disappoint anyone who request to be my friends. But I don't think I can accommodate that many friends in my list as I want to personalized my friends so I can interact with them better. To have many friends who don't come to your discussions does not serve the purpose. They only become decorative ornaments in the friends list. I want someone who is serious in their participation here. Neither do I want to be a referral in any online earnings.

Hello, this person may have 10,000 friends but what is the point. You dont earn any more for having friends as they are not referrals. If you accept friends then you should really be interacting with their discussions and topics which , obviously this prson is not as they only have (4) after their name . Maybe someone should drop hm a line and explain how things really work here in myLot. Anyway enough rambling I hope they are happy with all those friends. Have fun all.

Well, imagine... Its like a dream. But is it any good? I guess it is, unless you don't want to talk with one after the other xD

I agree that there is no specific reason why having hundreds of mylot friends would be a good thing if you aren't active. I guess having lots of active friends can be fun because you will get more responses and will get to know these people better over time. At the time being I am cleaning out my friendlist because over time lots of people asked me to become their friends, who I accepted, and then never posted again (not to my discussions and not anything what so ever to be exact). Having mylot friends is about sharing and posting to each others discussions and having fun, if you list gets to crowded with people who never interact I believe it's better for everyone to narrow down your list to the people who are active and responding.

Most of the friends on my friend list (and there's lots of them) are people I have asked to be friends with based on the discussions they started or they are people who requested me to be their friend (I'm assuming based on discussions I started). I usually accept all of them and no one except for one has spammed me. I deleted that particular profile. There are some on my friend list who are not active anymore. I check my list from time to time and delete those who are not active. One advantage of having many friends is more exposure to your discussions when you start them and easy to find the discusions that your friends have started without having to hunt through hundreds and thousands of junk discussions.

No there is no advantage. In fact, I used to accept every single person that requested to be my mylot friend and ended up that many of them posted so many stupid discussions I got tired of them. So I went through and deleted a bunch of people and now every time I see a "friend" that is posting discussions I'm not interested in, I remove them. On a discussion site like this, it's best to keep friends who you might actually enjoy chatting with. Otherwise you end up losing your friends in the mountain of people! I still have too many friends, but a lot of them never post so I haven't deleted them yet. I have been finding it hard at mylot to remember WHO I like and WHO I don't b/c I made the mistake of accepting too many friends in the beginning :(

Well he is probably sending private messages to all his "friends" to spam them and try to get them to sign up for any kind of program he is into I dislike very much such an attitude, and even worse when they spam you publicly by leaving those messages supposedly about you but they just advetise their stuff .. that's rude!

That sounds like a awful lot of friends. How in the world can he respond to his friends discussions. Even doing some friends one day and other friends another day. To me it just doesn't make any sense. I have a amount of friends that is reasonable and I am not able to respond to their discussions always. I do the best I can.

Wow, are you kidding me? That's too many friends on here. I've been on here for a while and I don't have that many friends. You are right I just add people as I reply to their discussions or they'll add me. I couldn't imagine about having just 4 posts but 10 000 friends. Have a wonderful day. Pablo

hm... that's weird... maybe he just wants to have a lot of friends... maybe he's a stalker or something... haha. =)

hello morethanamolehill, as a newbie, i am excited to add friends! i never thought about what they could do, like spam, or send unsolicited private messages! it never occured to me, until i read your topic and the replies! i just have a few friends yet and i thought i should add up some more, so i can see more topics, and more people can reply to me as well. now i got scare adding-up as i might get in those who just wanted to spam! =0 thanks for the topic, its an eye-opener! =)

Maybe he's made alot of referrals and shows up once in awhile? I really don't have a good answer. It does make me crazy when you make a friend and they add everyone on your friends list....you would think they would look for their friends with at least the same interests instead of just the same friend.....hmmm....maybe you should pm him and ask!

Morethanamolehill, I requested you as my friend. I am not the newbie I may appear to be, I am your old pal MSV1313 returned from exile. If you see my rantings in the undermine jihad and political sections of this place I should be easily recognizable.