So Many Friends on My Lot! How do we keep in touch?

Hi Andrew, I don't like the list to get too large as I like to be able to recognise them and have something individual to remember them by. The best way to keep in touch is by responding to their discussions as they respond to yours. If there is someone on your list who you never interact with then take them off and make room for someone who is more likely to share your interests. We don't need to respond to each other every time but at least I know who my friends are, and enjoy the banter we have.

YES..I would like to keep in touch with my friends on mylot too. I like your ideal but you do have a point. It will be time consuming. But I think I will try this. Send out a couple of messages a day. That way you still you are staying in touch but isn't taking away from your posting. I also will be doing a comment and see someone and will jump in and say Hi. This way has really been working for me. I also will add you to my friends list. Remember me and keep in touch.

Hi Andrew, I do count myself lucky as most of my close friends nearly always respond to my discussions, which of course is a wonderful way of hearing from them and chatting! But you are right it is very difficult to keep track of all your friends and making sure they are ok. I guess in the hectic lives we all seem to lead it is very hard to keep on top of your friends and keep in communication with them, especially during the Summer months. A few of my close friends have swapped emails with me so we keep in touch that way, I am also a member of other social networking groups where I find my friends on here over in other places too, so that helps! Friends are indeed very important, more so for me as they've helped keep me sane and in check!

I don't send pm's a lot, I mostly keep in touch on mylot by going under discussions, friends started and answer as many friends posts as I can. I do have alot of friends on here and it is hard to keep up with what everyone is doing. Sometimes I think I might spend a little too much time here, I seem to have left some of my other sites idle and came here and have kept busy.....I should go to the other sites and find everyone, say hi and send them here!! lol

I know what you mean Andrew, I have a accumulated a lot of mylot friends and sometimes its difficult to communicate with everyone, but most of my loyal mylot friends I try to make sure I answer there topics and stay in touch with them as much as posible and just hope that they understand. Oh, and by the way I remember the discussion we had on another topic on computers and you really had given some useful info lol.

Since I am new I currently don't have all that many friends on here, but the ones that I do have I mostly keep in touch with via their discussions, though I do e-mail one friend who I made on the first day here because we were getting into deep things so just using mylot didn't seem right. I don't really understand much about the other ways of communicating with people on mylot either, so I will probably stick to responding on their things (if they interest me, I won't respond just because the person is a friend as I don't think that would be fair) and then maybe chatting to them via comments whenever it randomly happens. If it seems like we could become really good friends, then I would probably message them to ask if they wanted to e-mail as well since it would be an easier way to manage things in the long run and delve deeper :) Good luck keeping up with everyone and nice question, Dranz

hi there. you are right, its really hard to build the network.. the people are such huge in numbers here in mylot... so i guess that means we have to have many friends, help eeach other learn and grow discussions... and well have a few "friends" to chat with.

I had a lot of friends here but I annot manage them well just by sating "hello there how are you?" because of being busy to my training and studies. SO, while doing a response to them that is the small way I can touch them.

I think it’s very important to have good friends on mylot. Because of connection with friends here you can develop the topics with them. I have a habit to check my friends list and to see their topics. If I can reply or give some tips I would like to post my opinion. After a few times of discussing with a particular group people I feel I know them more and I can answer their topics better. If you have no friends here and you just answer discussion randomly you will feel less fun here. Also I found the discussions I have started were easily answered by my friends. It’s a win-win management.

Hi Andrew . . . well the funniest thing is that i don't add friends on mylot at all, most of the ones on my friends list are the people who have sent me a request except a few people at the top of the list, i just accept friend requests which i receive everday... and still they are getting too many!... although i don't have good contact with each and everyone, there are a few nice people i always come across when they respond to my discussions or when i respond to theirs.... it's fun meeting them on discussions and hope to be like that in the coming few days, i can't keep up with so many friends here, i only have close contact with people who are interested in me. . . . have a nice day Andrew!

well, I have a lot of friends on it too, yet we don't keep in touch with each other quite often and sometimes we contact via messages. I guess you can not keep in touch with everyone only a few of them would be fine.

This incidentally is my plight too! I love friends, and I have accepted all those who have found my name here, many of them who are from faraway lands, and I really dont know how they came across me. May be it was my name that fascinated them, or simply because they accidentally added wrong person as friend since they are new. But all the same, I am glad to have them on my list of friends. :-) And I wish them the best. :-) Of course, I cant be doing once in a week routine. And even if I could, I am not sure my friends here would remain my friends (in their hearts of course), after all they would find it such a waste of their time replying mails that have nothing in particular, when they could have spent that time to earn something more. :-) I guess that decides it for me. :-)

Well as for me this is only my second day on Mylot so unfortunately I dont have that problem yet. But you could help me obtain it by adding me. =)

I am new to mylot and only have 4 friends =[ I am looking for more and always willing to engage in conversation! Also, it would be nice to just add some more friends to the profile!

well, don't know about others, but i track my friends through their discussions the discussion which interest me, i go and reply and also have chit chat with them. This way, i not only keep track those friends but also participate in mylot. And i feel like my friends in mylot want this from my side.. Ofcourse, at the moment i don't have many friends, but i know i can track them all by this way :)

To be honest, am not able to keep in touch with friends at mylot as I go directly to discussions everytime am here, except on special occasion where I can send to few greetings. Responding to their discussions is my only way of communicating except for personal message sometimes. Though I have so many close, good friends at other site as the main business there is viewing their pages, commenting to their blogs and commenting to their pictures and sending them messages. So no way for you not to get in touch. I also wish to become closer to my friends at myLot and to keep in touch with them, when there's enough time

yeah its good idea to communicate with your friends once in a week but people like me even cannot do it. Because dont have net at home. so for me to be in touch with friend is to respond to thier discussion regularly is best options. In discussion we normally use hi or hello. I like if a person of my list participate in my discussion;it is just like personal meeting for me. So i never worried about sending message but due to lack of timing from office , home , children and all other responsibility ; its best option to participate in his/her discussion. have a nice day Andrew!

Hello Andrew, Well, I would be practical and honest. I think most of the members here are for the primary goal of making money. Friendships here are made just to expand the network. However, there are a few genuine friends as well, who would drop in the occasional message sharing things about their lives and asking how you are doing. But, whenever I have tried networking with someone here by sending messages, I have never got a response. I am not complaining but just stating a fact. So, I don't think people here really need to keep in touch with each other personally. Some of the member share a few things about their lives through discussions which we come to know and they also ask for our help in their matters, which is really good to see. Time is a big factor here and probably we think that its better to spend time responding to discussions rather than asking someone how he/she has been doing,isn't it?

I think friends are the most important to have on myLot or anywhere. Among friends,there will be some who are more close to us & there will a priority list on myLot which I used to send messages almost everyday. After all its really nice to have a lot of friends everywhere.

ya not a bad idea. more communication means more income. i just accept friend request offers. but it seems hard to take the friendship outside of mylot.com. NOW that is a thought!