Do you make sure the notification is set for "ON" when you add new friends?

i am a new user, and how to add friends? my name is adelali, you can add me

Yes, I always turn notifications ON. But I'm starting to have second thoughts. I just had over 300 old emails at my mylot email address. I finally just deleted all of them tonight, because I hadn't been able to get to all of them in a long time. But I just can't bring myself to turn them off. I feel like I may miss out on a good discussion.

Yes, I have gotten pretty good at remembering to do this.

As soon as I add a new friend I make sure the notification is on. That way I am able to get all the new discussions they start. Sometimes I do go to their home page to check on the old discussions they have started and put in a response to the ones I have not replied to.

HI Sheila. Just like you, I see to it that if a friend is added to my list, I go directly to my friends list and see to it that I turn on their notifications. In that way, I can track if a friend posted a new topic so I can respond to them easily. Keep posting! HUGZ!

Yeah..i do check that often..Being a new member i have only few friends and happy to be notified when they post any new discussion..

I don't cause I have limited email space so I just come to mylot and look over discussions my friends started and go from there.

Yes, whenever I add someone new I always go and make sure their notification is on. Sometimes I've been surprised because inexplicably another person's notification is OFF, and I know I had turned it on. That has happened to quite a few people here I guess.

Not always. It would be impossible to clear my email if all my friends had the notifications on. I turn on the notifications of the friends that I tend to respond more to - because the topics interest me in general, because we seem to have many interests in common, etc. I have quite some friends with the notification on. The others I try to answer a bit at a time. I usually either go to the "discussions my friends started" and answer from there, or I often go to my friends pages and check each one on that page to see if there are new discussions to respond to. Next time I will do the same to another page, and so on. I check my myLot email each day when I have some time to come to myLot and I respond to the discussions from there. Then I check the other friends that are not on notification.

I actually turned them off when I was away for a month or so and left only a few (well those who were active at the time). All the new ones, I go through the "friends started" tab. It's just too many emails now and it's clogging up my in box. I am not as active as I use to be and it will likely continue this way. I still have your notification on though :)

Yes I always set the notification to on. If I'm unable to do it right away than I just don't approve a friendship until I do have time to complete it. That is why I was so upset there for so long when I wasn't getting any of my friends posts or comments. I am getting some now as this is one of them but when I went in to check on myLot I noticed that I had missed a lot of posts not coming through which explained why I thought myLot was very slow when in fact it wasn't slow at all, I'm just not recieving properly. Take Care

I do check them once in a while....and sometimes I take turns with having them on as I have a bunch of friends and wouldn't be able to repond to all of them...

There is no way I could keep up with all of my friend's discussions and I wouldn't even attempt it. I work strictly from the website and I'll read/respond to whatever catches my eye, friend or not. If I did things strictly from friends' emails, I would never have time to do anything else and would miss a lot of what else goes on out there. You're more visible to me if you're a friend because there's a category for that on the main page, but I don't limit myself.

Actually no, I don't have any of my friends set up to notifiy me of their discussions. I prefer to find discussions that interest me rather than being buried under tons of email notifications. If I come across one of their topics that interest me I'll reply. But I'm not going to respond to all their discussions just because they are on my friends list.

I do not want my myLot email to get overloaded. I usually go on the myLot myself and start answering the posts my friends make. I do have about three who I have notifications on and I really should put on some more, but I have not had time to do it. I also post some subjects that one has to think about. I think if you post subjects that no one gets offended about, or that brings up bad memories for you or them that you are more than likely to put notifications on for all your friends.

I have to go check that every now and then because I seem to forget to set it to "on" when I accept a friend. I wish it would do it automatically and we had to go and turn if "off", LOL but that is just my opinion. God bless you!

I never check my notifications,all i do is check my e-mail specially opened for mylot and answer all posting from there.

Hi Sheila, When I saw the question, the first thing I did was to turn on the notifications for the new friends I got in the last few days. I had completely forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me!! I check my email account that I have set up for just myLot notifications so that I can see the new discussions and comments from my friends first. After I do that, I come to myLot to see what else is being discussed. Hopefully, one of these days, I'll get the hang of not accidentally closing out the email window when I'm in here and not accidentally closing out the myLot window when I'm in the email.

Sometimes. It so happens that I respond to interesting discussion and also discussions which require only one line responses. So I usually get friends request from both the types of discussions starter. So I start the Notification on for people who I have noticed make better discussions and responses. bourne

As soon as I add a new friend ... that is the first thing I do .. No matter I have been accepted by someone or I have accepted anyone...