Have you ever had to delete a friend from mylot?
By babyangie27
@babyangie27 (5176)
United States
September 14, 2009 7:48pm CST
I have been here for 3 years,and I have a few friends I have added over that time. However I have never had to delete anyone. Not even ones that I know won't be coming back or something like that.
However today I did have to delete someone. I have heard many things about Mylot over the years,mostly good. But at another Paid To Post site I belonged too said Mylot had tons of bullies and such. Of course I came to Mylot defense and told them it must have been just a bad day for that person or something.
I have a very close friend that although they have an account here,is afraid to be yelled at or even have things be said about her so she won't even use the account.
Today someone that I was friends with WENT OFF ON ME over a mistake I had made here on Mylot. As I said I have been here three years and today was the first time I got a discussion deleted,and had to delete a "friend". I just don't know how to react to this person's behavior.
So have you ever had to delete anyone? Any advice on how I can let go of my hurt and move on?
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20 responses
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
15 Sep 09
I think the word 'friend' must be one of the most abused words on here. Another is 'new'.
We have alist of usernames which is inappropriately considered as a list of friends. My idea of 'friend' goes way beyond the definition use there.
Having said that, yes I do clean up my list each month and I remove names (not friends) whose profile page is blank.
I saw the incident that has prompted this and I was a bit taken aback but then I remembered something else by the same user which would cause me to see that response in a different light. I noticed elsewhere yesterday that a room-mate was causing a moment of tension for that user and I wonder if it could be a repeat moment there too. When offline things happen I know from experience that it can alter the way we portray ourselves here through our writing. May I suggest you contact the user concerned before taking further action as they may be completely oblivious and even unaware of who they were talking to due to an offline problem.
I hope it sorts itself as misunderstandings can ruin so many otherwise pleasant situations.
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
I agree about the whole friend idea. I consider a friend someone that has send me kind words of encouragement in my time of need. I agree that I have many "names" on my list as well.
I thank you for your input regarding what was said. However I feel no need to contact this person. I totally understand how the outside world can affect people when they come here. I myself live under constant stress,worry and pain. But I do my best to not reflect that on anyone here. But I did find your response helpful to me in the future.
@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
I seen it and yes that could very well be why they did what they did. However it does not excuse it in my book.
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
15 Sep 09
Thought you might be interested to see a discussion by the user concerned which has just been posted. Seems my hunch was on the right road. I have never seen that type of reaction from that user before so something just had to have caused it.
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
17 Sep 09
Yes I have a few as they where not Friends and believe me at the time it was hard as they had been on my list from when I joined
It is hard but when they start getting nasty then there is no point as to me Friends are exactly what the word means Friends
I only have real Friends on my list now and very rarely accept anyone now as I prefer it that way after the bad attack on me last Year which is now over and forgotten, but it taught me a lesson
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
18 Sep 09
I just gave it a break after that for 3 Months then I came back and invited my Friends back but only the ones I wanted to have on my List
I have been here from the Start and I was not going to leave all my Friends behind
It was tough at the time but well I got through it with my Friends behind me
I am glad that you are over it honest Sweet you have enough going on do not let anyone upset you on here
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
19 Sep 09
I agree hun and you are so right about me having so much going on,this is more true now than ever. I am glad you are here and we have become friends here as well as other places.
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
18 Sep 09
I don't understand why anyone would ever attack you. But I have heard many stories of being saying their were attacked on here by people. I am sorry you went threw this and I am glad you are still here. I was hurt but now I am over it if she doesn't care what she did then neither do I.
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
15 Sep 09
Hi dear!
It is sad to hear, whatever has happened with you and your discussion. I have never deleted an 'active' friend from my list of friends here on mylot. Whenever I review my list, I remove/delete those friends, who are inactive for pretty long time, say more than six months. When I find that neither I nor that particular friend is participating in each other's discussions, I delete the name of the friend my list. I just do not want to increase the number for the sake of it and I always wish to interact with 'active' friends. And those who are good friends, always keep me informed about their long absence, if they are unable to log in to mylot and I also do like-wise.
@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
15 Sep 09
Incidently, I have no one from my real life as my mylot friend, had it been the case, I would not have deleted him/her ever from my list.
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
15 Sep 09
You are very right that some people are not cut out for this job. It is not an easy thing to participate and contribute in discussions on various topics.
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
I have one school friend that actually turned me on to Mylot,then never came back. I deleted her only because I know she doesn't use the internet and will not be back here. Some people are not cut out for this kind of thing. I appreciate your kind words.
@patofgold23 (5069)
• Philippines
15 Sep 09
I have never deleted anybody so far... and I do not see any reason why i have to...
it is great having lots of freinds around mylot...
@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
This is true my friend. But if this person was rude to you out of the blue and was harsh,harassing,or spreading horrible rumors. Wouldn't that warrant for deletion from your friends list? I am glad you haven't experienced this as it was upsetting at the time.
@patofgold23 (5069)
• Philippines
15 Sep 09
oh..i won't delete him still so i constantly get notifications on his activites and I would know if he had started any discussions or not...and if he did..i would just annoy him everytime lolz!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
That is wonderful my friend. Back when I first started I had many friends on here that were very caring and always there for me. Sadly many of them are no longer around. They don't even log in anymore.
@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
Welcome to Mylot. This place is great don't get us wrong. But every site has a few "bad apples". I hope you never have to delete anyone. I don't care to do it myself but felt the situation warranted it.
@praveenjena (1304)
• India
15 Sep 09
Well mylot is just a great thing. There had been incidents over here that I feel like made me annoyed. There was one guy who just annoyed me with posts to be his referral in other sites. He would spam me with messages. every time I would log in to find plenty of messages that he would send. I just ignored him. It went on for about three weeks and after that he left. That was the most annoying thing that I ever had in this site. Well even after that I did not delete him. Now I think that he is off mylot too. He did not have any activity of late.
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
Many times people come here thinking that it is just a site to promote your other online sites,but Mylot is so much more than that.
I have never had anyone spam me in PM's I guess i have been pretty respected and respectful in that regard. If someone is interested in a site I use and sends me a PM I openly invite them to send me their links to site or information.
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
15 Sep 09
I have never deleted any contact till now. Far ago, there was one of my friends with whom I happened to develop some differences. And not only me, he started to abuse just everyone who had views against his.... I really got cross but still didn't feel like deleting him:) Later he disappeared or was banned, I can't say...
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
Sometimes people do just disappear,I guess I feel this was my only way of helping myself heal from the unkind words.
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
15 Sep 09
Hi Angie. Yes, I deleted someone off my friends list on here just the other day. It was the first time that I've had to do this in the 2 1/2 years that I've been here. This person had left a comment that was rather uncalled for on my profile, so I thought it would be best if I deleted it as well as them off of my friends list.
The best thing you can do is try not to let it get to you.
Good luck and happy mylotting!
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@uicbear (1900)
• United States
15 Sep 09
I have never had that kind of negative experience here, and I am glad. I enjoy coming to this site to discuss things and have a bit of fun.
But, on the subject of deleting a "friend"...when I first joined mylot, I accepted any and all friend requests. Most of the time it was fine, but one friend just bombarded me with junk messages and would go on my posted discussions and post links and nonsense replies, so I had to delete this person.
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
I did the same when I first came here,however back then I made several strong friends. No one them are here anymore but I still talk to one of them via email.
@jheLaichie (4438)
• Philippines
16 Sep 09
as far as being here for not that long... i havent tried deleting a member of this site.. in my list some whom i called friend and some acquaintances... some if feel odd sometimes but i never tried deleting them even if i do not like them in some ways i cannot explain. but when someone likes to add me to their list, i would be happy to accept it.
but so far, i love everyone here. some are not that active and yet still they are on my list.
jhelai
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
16 Sep 09
I am happy with the ones on my list now and am always open to more friends or acquaintances. I just carry my heart on my sleeve and things get to me,and I usually don't give out many second chances unless I feel the person is sorry for what happened in this case i don't think the person even cares,so removing them from my list was good for me in the end.
@olydove (1209)
• United States
16 Sep 09
You know I never do understand why people have to be so mean. Seriously if someone makes a mistake here on mylot then simply point it out to them POLITELY and later on if they do not take heed to what they've been told take the proper measures.
I've seen some people here and on other sites just get down right nasty to others ( as if they've never broken a rule or two on accident or on purpose. ) The best thing you can do is just move on sweets because for whatever reason that person decided to treat you with disrespect, and lord knows there is enough disrespect in this world especially in daily life, without having to be disrespected over a mistake too.
Besides you've got plenty of other friends that love and care about you that would never disrespect you like that. Now I don't know exactly what happened or whom was involved and I don't want to know because the truth is a friend will help and guide and point out the mistakes made, not jump your sh** and make you feel like a lousy peace of trash. (((hugs))))
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
16 Sep 09
The comment was removed by Mylot so i am happy about that. I agree we all make mistakes and NO ONE is innocent but many claim to run this place here. I have been here longer than this person,just because my numbers don't show it doesn't mean squat! But the friends online point isn't so true anymore. Most of the friends I thought I had have all disappeared they don't' even bother to send me an IM to ask how I am,nothing. But I always have the one or two that put up with my crap LMAO. Thanks for that
@solatjumat (312)
• Indonesia
15 Sep 09
never
since I am a newbie to mylot, I only have 4 friends on my list
hehe
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
Well I welcome you to Mylot. I do hope you never find yourself in a situation where you have to delete someone,but sadly sometimes it does happen. Normally I just leave people on there,but I was hurt so i just hit the delete button and did feel better afterward.
@kakabawani (23)
• India
15 Sep 09
Some peoples add their people in their friend list to make it bigger and sometimes they invited by the peoples so they accept their invitation just for nothing not as a friend if you have a friend which is closer to you u shouldn't delete or kick him out because this will not get any cost to be stay with him in ur friend list
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
This is true my friend. Many on my list are more associates rather than friends. If the person I had deleted had been closer maybe we could have mended fences,but she burned me early in the friendship and that I just write off,delete and try to collect myself after that. This is a networking site as well as like a social site.
@coldmoon (1088)
• France
15 Sep 09
I have never deleted any friend on mylot. I've never met them, and for me they're unreal friend, though they sometime have amazingly common viewpoints with me; so I don't care if they're active or not. People here have the right to choose if they want to stay or leave this forum, but I always greet their coming back at anytime.
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
See for me I believe online friends can sometimes be more close to you than offline friends. I mean I have maybe one or two close friends outside of my computer life. But online I have several I can true friends,that are always there for me and have helped me threw some difficult times in my life.
@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
I agree to a point. I thought the same thing until earlier. We are all human and make mistakes but to belittle someone due to a mistake or something like that warrants me to remove you. I have enough stress in my life and surely don't need anymore. I do hope you never run across something like that has it can be disheartening.
@kprofgames (3091)
• United States
15 Sep 09
I've deleted people before. If they aren't active, then figure why have them taking up space. I have once because of the reason that you are stating. Sorry, it does happen but not too often.
I think it happens to people at least once here Angie, but you can't sweat it. It is just a parting of ways and if it was on a bad note then maybe it will turn itself around. Maybe not, but don't get too hurt over something here.
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
Yes you are right,and I know it. I have had a long day and had some surprises I am not used to on here. Things happen,people get discussions deleted,friends get lost. It is life. I come here to try to learn,share and escape some of my own demons and being yelled at or treated badly is something I just don't want to or shouldn't have to deal with I suppose.
@HelScream (2822)
• Philippines
15 Sep 09
my friend I never deleted anyone on my friends least no one but the thing is the feeling I got when a friend of mine deleted me on her friends least and for what reason I dont know thats the worst part of it though coz I never was rude here at the lot and never got my discussion even 1 of my discussion deleted on any matter but i am still confused why she deleted me I so wanted to request for friendship to her maybe she just deleted me accidentally but the last reply i got from her was a reason that prevented me from asking friends request, now what to do I dont know I will make a discussion similar to this one but the opposite the feeling of being deleted lol well till now I still want her reason for she had been very close to me and if I hurt her whit one of my discussion which was not meant for her by the way i think apologies is overdue and I am willing to give it to her if needed wish you luck though on your part.
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
Your story is a good one. I do hope you can resolve the issue if it can be resolved. I am sure the people I have deleted(I cleaned up my friends list last night) probably won't even care or notice. However your situation is much different and I too wish you the best.
@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
It had been 3 years for me. But just like in life there is a first time for everything.
@homeshoppers (6166)
• Philippines
15 Sep 09
no, i didnt delete any of hem. i just let them stay there. good thing to have them in our list is they can participate in our discussion or if they have new topic then the same thing also. im not even talking to some of them but its alright since this is a free site and anyone are welcoe so who am i to reject them. besides i also sent invitation if i need to ask something from the member specially about the site or about mylot.
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
15 Sep 09
But what if this person attacked you,spread lies about you, or was just plain RUDE to you? Would you continue to have them in your list? I think it is better to get rid of the bad ones so you can easily cherish the good ones.
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