Is four months long enough before deleting?

If you want to then delete them, there is no one to hold you here. But for me, I don't have time to delete friends on my list, even if they are trolls here because I have a long list of friends here and to go on them one by one would be such a waste of my time because I only not work here on Mylot, but I also work on other sites that Pay. But anyway as long as they don't do harm like spam you or something, why bother erasing them anyway. Just my two cent. Again as i have said earlier, there is no one to hold you of doing that.

I have not done anything so far about this type of thing, but lately I have been thinking about it. I mean I get money from answering hteirs but I can not really get to know these people if they do not respond to my discussions too.

No I generally don't delete friends if they haven't responded to my discussions as one never knows if on a rare occasion they just might. The only time I delete people is if they start spamming me in PMs with tons of their referral links and makes me think they only wanted my friendship as a "referral" person

I would go ahead. Sometimes they ask to be a friend again, it's happened to me, and usually I guess they like to read the discussions just have nothing to say. Not really sure. If you want to, go and respond to one of their discussions and wait to see if they return the favor, etc, not really sure if that will help / work though.

Friendship is a two way thing, I don't think you are being mean at all and i spent last week deleting friends who haven't been in touch for quite a few months but have seen them around mylot. So go with your feeling and if you want to delete them then do so, you are not being mean as it takes two to have a friendship.

According to what you wrote ... I think you want to delete some inactive members because you're expecting a mutual benefit relations when you're requesting/accepting friendship with them. If it's true, i think you've already had the reasons and a clear point to make a decision. How am i handle this situation? It depends on the reasons why i am having friends. Example: in FaceBook i have hundreds of friends and communicate only with a quarter of them, but i have no intention for deleting some or one of them. If the size of my friends list would somehow obstructing or disturbing me, my laptop or my existance here at MyLot, i may have to strained the list with criterias.

It is enough when you think it is enough, only you know who you want to stay in contact with and why.

I go through them every once in a while...and do some deleting...like those who I have been friends with for a while but their numbers never change either! I don't always delete those who don't respond.....but once in a while I do. I try to go according to if they are active or not....but it's up to you what you want to do!

Yes you are being mean. Adding them to your frinds list doesn't mean they have to join your discussion. If they do, thank them, if they don't then do not crucify them.

IF I DIDN'T HEAR from them in that length of time i would delete them. I Think it's strange when people ask to be your friend & then u never hear a word from them.

Hey Cynthiann I say if they are not responding then they can't be friends! Why have people signed up to be friends if they never respond and interact with you? I wouldn't hesitate to delete. They won't know the difference, so don't worry about their feelings. Just delete. leenie

Well I don't see any harm in keeping them as friend. And to me online friendship doesn't matter much. May be they didnot have anything to share in what discussion you started so they didn't respond or maybe they are not active here on mylot. But then again as you say you have been responding to their discussion means they are active and also 4-6 months is a long time so you must have atleast started one discussion of their interest. Even I haven't responded to many discussions my friends started so I think deleting them just on the basis of the fact that they have not been responding to your discussions doesn't sound fair....

I don't know the rules around here but if you feel like deleting some friends, then you may just do so. If some of them haven't responded to your discussion maybe it's because they don't have anything to say about the topic. I believe everyone would like to give a thought or two but if they don't, I'd just take it they're not interested or can't relate to the discussion. But I'll still keep them on my friends list (I have very few anyway LOL). Peace!!!

I feel that if YOU want to delete them, just do it. Dont feel bad.....it's a free world...do whatever you wish my dear. Have a fantastic weekend!!!

I thik hat is indeed a reasonable timeperiod in which to delete a nonresponsive friend. I do not understand why these people bother to send a request if they have no intention to respond to your discussions. Granted not all discussions but there must be a few to which they can respond. I think I'll do some friend dropping of my own as well. There are some mylot veterans on my list which I have not heard from or seen around here for a looooooonnng time now.I understand that there had been some problems around here while I was away. I miss the atmosphere and the sort of discussions which really used to take place here when I just became a member. My friendship list is not for decoration. I will definately be trimming my list.

Of course it's OK. I haven't gotten around to going back and cleaning up my friends list, but you have every right to. When I do it, I will probably just delete inactive people, but we shall see.

I don't bother doing anything at all, myself. If they respond, fine. If they don't, fine. But, if they haven't participated anywhere on myLot in a while - if their numbers haven't budged over time - then they're gone. I don't really worry about the other too much - I don't always respond to people's discussions if what they're talking about I can't relate to. And, some have more of that type than others.

maybe they are just too busy.I think you can make your decision after this summer vacation