Benefit of Mylot friends?

I think the word 'friend' is very over-used on myLot and if used together with the woed 'benefit' it turns my stomach upside down. It implies that friends are to be 'used'. Don't get me wrong - I'm not getting at you Tinkerbell just trying to get across how I feel. I have said before that I would like to see users who are on a list called 'buddies' or something else but not 'friends'. A friend is something that happens long after an exchange or several exchanges in discussions. Having got that off my chest I'll answer your question from my point of view. I rarely accept requests from users whether they have a small or high user-rating beside their name unless we have interacted somewhere in a discussion. Many request just to send links to their sites and if that is what I sense could be the reason behind it then I do not accept. The users on my list are all (well I hope they are by now) aware that they are not on my list just so that I will respond on their discussions or viceversa. They are usually users whom I have come to admire here and I am glad to be aware of their interesting discussions even though in some cases I do not participate as I feel out of my depth. Likewise I do not expect them to rspond on mine as many I start are very frivolous and would (could even) be of no interest to them. However having users on our friend list does mean we can then contact them through Private Messages which can be very handy to catch up with them if they have been or indeed are missing or swap ideas or ask certain questions if we know they are competent. I also use PMs with those on my list when I wish to point out something they may well be doing which could cause them to lose discussions through deletion here. That's just my two cents but that's what I feel is the benefit of a friend list on myLot Have fun and happy Lotting!

Some people in mylot lieke recived e-mails when some friend started some discussion here in mylot. Other, you can see more easy the last action to your friends. Because this you can get more participation in your discussion.

Hello Tinkerbell7! I do think that adding friends have it benefits. I do accept all friend requests to me but one time, I read a discussion by one of my friend and she told us not to immediately accept all friend requests, so right now, I will really check the profiles first before accepting any requests.

The idea is to get to know people on a higher level than to simply consider them random people that you see on the forums. =P Although I've never gotten any myself, adding friends, viewing their profiles and interests, and sending them messages, is simply to get acquainted with people and perhaps form a friendship. MyLot, like any other forum, is a community, and a community is strengthened greatly when some of its members are friends. It contributes a lot to the atmosphere when people are known on a more personal basis and interact with each other through personal messaging, and not just on discussions. It doesn't offer any specific "benefits", I don't think, it's just a way to make - as the name suggests - "friends". ^_^