Friend requests.

Yes! Anyone can request to be your friend but it's up to you to filter out which ones you think are genuine and which people you think are only going to spam out your inbox full of links and schemes. I'm a little wary of that myself after experiencing a couple of the "friends" I accepted attacking my inbox with tons and tons of referral links. It's sad and tasteless, but what can you do? These days I"m looking more into whether or not they've responded to my discussions, what kind of discussions they've responded to and started, and how many posts they have. It's unfortunate that we have to worry about these kinds of things, but what can you do?

one good thing about having friends in here is that friends on your list usually will answer your topics first when they og on. They alo get the opyion of having an email notification every time you post a new topic. Some people chat a bit. I just follow interesting people so that I know I'll see their interesting discussions

ho mommaj, Mylot is not only a discussion forum it is also a social site with a little bit of difference so it is going to be that people would send you a friends request and if you have come here to earn a little bit like most of people like me here than you got to have lots of friends because you earn here either by responding to other people discussions or if someone else respond to the discussion started by you. Yes anyone can respond to anyones discussion here and i usually give a friends request to anyone who has responded to one of my discussion and it is up to that person to accept or not.

Well mommaj, I am very choosy like you when it comes to being friends with someone and sharing your personal information. On other forums i went i have always chosen my friends well and after knowing them well. But when I come here I saw that being friends here is completely different. It's just limited to being in the friends list i guess :s And like someone has already mentioned here that your friends get to see your topics and most of the times they come and reply there too, so that's probably one of the big advantage. By the way what's that personal in your profile that you don't want to show? I mean I can understand if you don't like everyone to see and know about yourself, I am like that too but I guess no-one here has the time to go through each and everything of every single member. And if it is about our life then we are already sharing it her out in open with everyone. Aren't we? :) So stop worrying about it. You can edit your profile a bit if there is something you don't want everyone to know about you.

I would gladly accept them, this site is more like sharing of ideas, opinions , and I welcome anyone's opinions as long as they are not offensive

so far when someone request for friendship i will always approve . no one i've missed so far. only the tast i leave for i dont know if i can handle it easily. theres nothing wrong for me if some requesting , i just want to have friends list , even tho i dont know them in personal , quiet amzing but just enjoy here. so always accept not thinking whoever she/he is as long as i have friends its ok for me.

I have been where you are, and I have been disillusioned when I have been too free with accepting friends. I even started a discussion about it, about a million years ago.I now accept everyone. 90% of them never do another thing on MyLot after those friend requests. If they spam me with offers and links, I quietly delete them, or if they are rude or nasty.

I think "friends" and "friend requests" are actually misnomers when used on social networking sites. In the "real world," we equate friendship with people that we know... people that we like... people that we socialize with, etc. On a social networking site, the key word is really "networking." On some websites, "friends" are instead called "contacts" - and this might be a better frame of reference for you. You might wish to have contact with someone because they made some interesting comments. Perhaps they have expressed knowledge about a subject that appeals to you and, if they are posting about it, you'd like the opportunity to read or follow up. Maybe they mentioned another website that you would like to remember and having them as a friend will remind you to review their profile for information. "Friends" aren't always friends in the strictest sense -- it doesn't mean you will strike up a personal relationship, have contact outside of discussions or other postings, you might never even have a direct, one on one conversation. Some people DO make great and lasting friendships through websites of all kinds - I know I have! - for others, "friendship" is the equivalent of exchanging business cards at a cocktail party. The best part is that you get decide whether to accept or decline each one and you should never feel obligated nor guilty about your decisions, either way. :D

I have over 200 friends on here but I've been here for over a year. Your friends can't see any of your private information, just whatever is on your profile page and you can change that if you want. This is a very nice site. The vast majority of posters here and nice folks just trying to earn some coin and to make some friends. There are benefits to having friends. The email notifications let them know when you've started a discussion so they can respond to it. You also get notifications when your friends start a discussion. This is why I use an alternate email address for mylot...I get a lot of notifications. Keep in mind that you can easily delete a friend if he/she turns out to be a troll.

In the beginning I did not understand why I would receive so many friend requests but then I realized people liked what I said in discussions or saw that I was active or had received a number of best responses and wanted to be friends. I decided it was a compliment and started accepting all requests.

Well,I think it is not a big deal,If you don't want them make your friends just refuse.You seems be mad about this,this things are not so seriously.Anyway i hope you can have fun on my lot

You can accept is as your friend, because you are here not just to earn money but to have friends to share your discussion and answer to their discussion, whether that person are not familar to you, Don't bother they don't see your personal data what they can see only your profile in my lot.

like you have the power to choose your own friend, you have to made a friend request,that's way others have use their power to made a request to be your friend, either they were attracted by your profile(profile may be a fake also),\\ or they were attracted by your posts written on different topics,you cant stop them, but stop some of them by this topic till few weeks. whenever we talk to anyperson & get impreseed by him & her/his activities, we try to build a relationship with them, that relationship is know as friend,after that relationship can take anyaffect depend upon the situations. so, i recomend to don't avoid such people, get to know them, if you dont like them, you can leave them in future. some of the people are here to build a network of friendship, you can avoid such persons. life is your's, you were your own boss.