Removal of friendship and others...
By K.Rajib G.
@krajibg (11922)
Guwahati, India
September 20, 2010 10:44pm CST
I was seriously ill for almost a month and still am under medication. That resulted my absence here. As I felt a bit better yesterday I thought I should see how my friends and others are doing on mylot.
It was as usual save some unpleasant changes in my friends list.
Prior to my falling ill I had made some new friends who were as active and vocal as I was before. But they were missing from the list which speaks loudly that they removed my friendship.
Now I am looking for the definition of friendship here on mylot.
Would you just remove anybody from your friends list because you had had opposite opinions on certain subjects of discussion here or the person is absent for a month or so which you do not like? Do not you wait for a year or less six months before throwing the friend away?
If this be the case what friendship means to you?
Lets share.
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28 responses
@krupesh (2608)
• India
21 Sep 10
Hello Rajib,
Seeing you after a very long time.Infact I was the one who was absent here for months together.I never remove anyone from the friends list whether I have had bad experiences with them or even for that matter they are absent for years together.Anyhow what is that am going to lose ?
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@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
21 Sep 10
Hi Krupesh,
I knew you too were absent for months together before you resumed here. And this is normal that one or the other would be off the scene for any reason and the span could be form one month to several months and even years.
What mind is that who befriended when things were going all good with them as you had never raised your brow against their points?
After all we are not here to be "yes sir or yes madam". We are here to share and discuss and on such event there could arise heated exchange of words and that is a part of mylot spirit.
I feel those who remove friendship for the reason I had stated feel themselves superior over things they know better.
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@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
21 Sep 10
Yes. I have no reason to think of those who have deleted my friendship. I think it is good to feel that those who left you were not good friends at all.
Thank you Krupesh.
@saphrina (31551)
• South Africa
21 Sep 10
From my point of view, sweetie.
That was a childish thing for them to do.
I mean really, if you want to remove yourself from aomeone's list, at least have the guts to tell that person.
You don't have to give a reason, which would be nice if they did.
I cannot believe we have so much children here.
How freaky is that?
Hope you get better soon.
TATA.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
21 Sep 10
Hi saph,
I don know exactly but there are people here who are less friendly. What one gains by deleting one's friends also a riddle for me.
As you have put they must be childish to do so. This holds water to remove one from the list when he/she is inactive for more than a year and had not much been on discussion table. But one who is as much active as you it is really hurting to get removed.
Yes one should have the guts to PM telling that he/she is deleting you from the friends list.
Nice words.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
21 Sep 10
I am happy that friends like are there to cheer friends up.
thanks again.
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
21 Sep 10
Hi raj, very sorry to hear that you are not well. Get well soon so you can share your interesting posts here. I noticed that you are not as active as before. I hope your illness is not life threatening. Well, friendship means a lot to me on or offline. Once I admit someone in my list, they sort of become permanent residence there. That explains why I have uncountable dormant friends than active ones. I always believe that they will come back one day and besides I am too lazy to go through my friends list to do the deletion.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
21 Sep 10
Hi zands,
Yes I was not in action for a long time and it was due to my serious illness. Now as I am bit better have come made my come back.
Friends are friends unless they hurt you knowingly. On such event this is all legit to remove or delete him/her from the list so that you are no longer caused pain from th person.
i too have a lot of dormant friends and they are just there.
How was your Australia tour?
Nice to see you after a long time.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
21 Sep 10
Get to your natural rhythm for there are not so many old members husking the corns out. lol
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
• India
21 Sep 10
Hello my friend krajibg Ji,
Firstly, I feel sorry to hear about your sickness , next I regret to say that I never follow taht trend, so far whatever friend are in my list, they sttand from the very firast time onward. It is dufficult to get good friends. Please do reveal somthing about your sickness.
May God bless You and have a great time.
@maygodblessu44 (7336)
• India
25 Sep 10
Hello my friend krajibg Ji,
Thanks a lot for your recollection. At times, I get very bad ideas when I do not see someof my friends here due to various reasons best known to tehm. But our mind and heart start thinking in none other bad ideas starting with sickness first and there is no end to that. You are too young and you can take care of yourself by changing your life-style.
May God bless You and have a great time.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
21 Sep 10
Hello Jee,
Nice to hear from you after a long time.
You are right that it is difficult to get really good friends both off line and on line. But those who have been friends since my becoming a member here are still good pals and guides too.
Sure, I would PM about my illness.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
25 Sep 10
Hiya kraj,
Did not know that you had been ill even so glad to see you back again. Sorry you have been ill and hope that you are very well and over it.
I don´t delete anyone either some of us have so much to do I suppose I could be off here for a while too because I have a lot off line things to do also. But anyway I find a bit of time to write to different People.
Good advice from krupesh not good to think about the past just keep being in the present well and think only about the future too. Nice to see you back kraj.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
26 Sep 10
Hi loveangel,
Thanks for the concern. I am fast recovering and would be all fit in a month or so.
Yes, we all are not so regular here, I mean most of us have more off line works than on line and this results in our staying off for quite some time and should not be presumed that one has left mylot.
Thanks for sharing.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
3 Oct 10
Hiya kraj,
Fast recovering that sounds very good then. I know a lot of People here can´t be here all Day or even an hour sometimes they have their lives to live and have to work more hours than before it´s only natural for that to happen.
Stay well nice to see you around.
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
21 Sep 10
I'm sorry to hear you've been ill but glad you're feeling better! How sad that your "friends" have dropped you...they were obviously just concerned with earnings and not with people that they could get to know. I have many inactive people on my list but I don't remove them--they may decide to come back and will need someone to greet them.
If someone disagrees with me, that's great! That makes for a lively discussion and maybe I'll get some new ideas, different ways to think about things. If everyone agreed it would be a boring, miserable world. My best friend and I disagree vehemently about one particular subject but we've agreed not to discuss it. We disagree about others, too, but are willing to give and take on those. It makes the friendship interesting!
I hope you've recovered and have no ill effects. The friends you lost are better off gone so don't feel badly about it.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
24 Sep 10
Hi,
You are one of the oldest friends of mine here on mylot and though I have not been so regular to respond you started topic you have not removed me. And almost all of us feel that that is not the true spirit.
I am getting better each day.
Thanks for the soothing words.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
21 Sep 10
I think it's different for everybody. Some people keep their friends lists small, only people they talk to regularly. Others accept all comers. I accept most people, with the exception of newbies who haven't posted anything. As far as cleaning up my list, I would never delete you, because we have had discussions, and I remember them and the things you said to me. I would delete somebody who hadn't been active for a long time IF I hadn't ever really interacted with the person. I wouldn't delete somebody who had different opinions, but I might delete somebody who was abusive toward me.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
25 Sep 10
Hi dawn,
People surely difference in opinions. Some like to accept all and some only a few. This is purely a personal choice and we can not raise any question on this whatsoever.
I know or knew you would not delete me and thanks for the assurance.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
29 Sep 10
i had the same thing happen.. i havent been on here much in over a year and the first 6 months here i LIVED on mylot but then things happened and life got crazy and i didnt get on much.. i now notice my regular repliers dont reply often and they used to reply to everything i did.. i try to not take it too personal since i dont have the time to reply to theirs (i try to go through and reply to 1 of everyones posts when i can but if they post 20 times 1 time isnt much but i get so behind i have 1000s waiting on me) but yeah some people do jump ship on friendship as soon as it doesnt help them earn money.. on other sites i used to try to make money at and left the people decided to not be my friend outside of the site because it wasnt helping them!!
on mylot when im regular i would go through my friends list every once in awhile and if the person hadnt been online in 4 months i would maybe delete them UNLESS i had been close with them and talked to them alot.. i have a lot of people that added me that i never have even talked to so those i will after 4 months of them not signing on
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
29 Sep 10
Hi moon,
You are right. There are so many discussion posted by one person that it becomes too difficult to respond them all. Still it is nice if we can keep in touch.
There are people who would just delete you if sees that you have not been in the scene for a long time or if you have not been otherwise regular here.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
21 Sep 10
I go through my friends list every 2 or 3 month and delete people that haven't been active in a while.
It depends on the people how long is too long for not being active.
If you just signed on 3 weks ago and haven't been active for 2 that tells me you just collecting friends for money purposes but if you been on mylot for a long time like you have been I always wait just in case the person has fallen ill or maybe vacationing.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
24 Sep 10
Hi missy, I too do that. But I do more frequently than you do. Might be this is why I spotted this faster.
Lets settle that there are creature who do not have courage to relate the reason as to why they wish to withdraw friendship.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
22 Sep 10
Hi krajibg it’s good to see you back here; I hope you are feeling better now. I certainly would not delete someone just because they were away for an extended period of time. I would send them a private message or an email if I was really concerned. I have rejected some friendship requests for good reasons but I have never deleted anyone from my list. Sadly some folks do away with friends if there is a disagreement which is strange because this, being a discussion site means that disputes are bound to occur but the idea is to agree to disagree and not necessarily cancel the friendship.
@mods196621 (3652)
• Philippines
21 Sep 10
You know I value friendship. i treasure each of them and i cannot throw them away without any valid reasons. I am friendly and happy with them as online friends or real friends here. Once I accept you as my friend bear in mind i am your friend. So for me friendship is the sharing of many things that is valuable in life and a treasure as precious. Be happy with them in times of happiness sharing of emotions and success and failures in life. Lets trust our friend fairly. Have a happy day!
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
25 Sep 10
Hi mods, since we accept or request friendship this goes without question that we value friendship. But that is only the formality and in reality there are a few good friends in your list.
Who does nt want to be happy? When you do not let me be happy surely I would go sober.
@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
21 Sep 10
Hi krajibg!
Sorry to hear about you. Welcome back anyway. And hope you recover fast.
Well, It's always nice to know that we have friends than foes whether here or in the real world. But sometimes we are just not able to respond to his/her discussions for some reasons, perhaps one we are not familiar with the topic or like you said because of absence. But that doesn't mean that we do not consider him/her a friend. That doesn't mean we should delete a friend off.
We all need friends. And I need them too. It's just that some friends are a little closer than the rest. Friends are sometimes like the stars, they shine bright when it's dark.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
24 Sep 10
Hi friend Tomi,
I am fast recovering from my illness. Thank you for your words of encouragement.
You are right. This is not always possible to respond to the discussions started by so many friends at a time and besides some topic may not be one so that one could respond to.
On such event we should not mind. I have more than 500 friends and when I start a discussion I do not get a gesture from all of them and this does not result my deleting them from my list.
@mrsmakawak (90)
• Canada
21 Sep 10
I don't think that a difference in opinion is grounds to disassociate yourself with someone. Having a difference of opinion is something that makes good conversation between people. As long as they are civil and keep their cool when debating different opinions then it is completely fine to be friends with someone. I don't throw friends away. Unless someone is being completely deplorable and throwing personal insults and not acting like a friend. That is when you loose friendship with someone.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
25 Sep 10
Hi there,
Had difference in opinion been accepted as a good sign of discourse and discussion it would not steer to arguments and finally antagonism.
You seem to be relatively new here. As you would grow older in terms of your being here you would surely experience things which would not digest so easily.
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
21 Sep 10
Hi krajibg. I'm sorry to hear that you've been sick.
I don't delete people from my friends list for disagreeing with me or for being inactive (if you'd be so kind to look at my profile you'll see that you're still on my friends list ). It takes a lot more than that for me to hit the delete button.
Unfortunately, not everyone is willing to do the same. So, don't worry about getting deleted by some of your "friends" on here. It happens to the best of us sometimes, no matter how nice or active we are. LOL That's just a part of mylotting, I suppose.
Anyway, welcome back and happy mylotting!
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
21 Sep 10
Hi sacmom,
Initially it felt bad but now I am ok that people are there who care least of others sentiments and feelings.
No, You have not deleted me and I know even if I am absent for 6 or more months you would not.
Thanks for the greeting.
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
21 Sep 10
Hi rajib,
How are you now? What happened to you? I haven’t noticed your absence. I seen your controversial post last time (some other people started topics on your name) after that I too went out from mylot and I restored my regular activities in mylot last week only. I know it will hurt if some known people delete us from the list. I have never deleted any inactive friend because I know it will hurt in case the person comes back once again…
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
23 Sep 10
Hi kala,
i am quite ok now.
After that controversial post I fell ill and I did not know what followed afterward. I do not know how it goes with the rules of mylot to start discussion with a member's name but I am nowt worried about that.
Thanks for you concern.
@celticeagle (168269)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Sep 10
There could be alot of reasons for these friends to have gone off your list. Have checked to see if they are still members? They could have gone against the guidelines and been suspended. They have decided Mylot wasn't for them and gone off the site? Why do you automatically take it as an affront against you? I have occasionally taken people off my friend's list if I haven't seen them on the site or if they haven't been active for a long period of time. When you are on the site daily 'almost a month' can see like an extended amount of time.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
21 Sep 10
Hi celtic,
I would be blissfully unaware of the fact unless this morning when I happened to check my profile where I saw some of the close friends were missing from the list. I thought it could be due to disagreement over a couple of topics in the recent past. Still it sent me an unpleasant feeling.
No i have not checked yet if they are still members here. What you have said could be true or it could be something else.
@bing28 (3795)
• Philippines
21 Sep 10
I just came back to myLot too, was wondering , had not seen your posts. I' glad you're now fine Rajib, welcome to our beautiful world at Mylot, again. I was not able to check if others deleted me during my absence anyway I appreciated those who commented with my discussions even they're new ones and of course happy to see old friends as well. I don't delete friends at my friend's list even if I seldom see them at mylot's discussions or they're not commenting at my started discussions as they might be on leave or just can't relate with my topics. I value my friends so much and even n line friends that are so close to me. I wish you full recovery, Rajib and avoid getting stress losing friends that don't care.
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@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
23 Sep 10
Hi bing, Thank for the greeting. Yes I was not so regular on mylot for quite some time.
Deleting friends means disregarding their being. Hence if some one is active but have disagreed on valid reason to my point of view that would not result in his being my arch enemy.
Yes, now I am fast recovering and have come over the hurting feel of those friends' action.
@bamrahkirti (1821)
• India
21 Sep 10
Welcome back to Mylot
Well i will never delete any friend from my friends list whatever the reason could be .Because when we accept any friendship request it is a deliberate action on our part and it is not induced.So what it the fun of hurting the person afterwords...
I am an active user of Facebook and there i have been deleted from friends list by two of my ex friends.I do not know the reason but i think they wanted to accommodate someone who has high scores in Farmville (It is a game in Facebook).It did feel hurt though i have never had active communication with them.
Mylot comprises of international community and here people from all walks of life participate and you must remember that all five fingers are not equal.What we like may not be liked by other and vice versa.
So do not take it seriously and just chill and recuperate from your illness.We want you to be very active here.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
23 Sep 10
Hi bmrahkirti,
You are that five fingers are not not all equal. This is natural that some people are quick to react and equally so to delete some one from their life.
I too am a member on face book and am there at farmville. bur have not been active for a long time.
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@meapas (2436)
• India
21 Sep 10
How are you now? Hope you are as active as before. Even I have been out of mylot for quite a long time but I have not experienced any such thing. I think some misunderstanding must have taken place somewhere. True friends don't react this way. Hope to hear from you often.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
21 Sep 10
Hi meapas,
I am still recovering and would not be as active as before at least for another 20 days or so.
Many have not gone through what I have experienced and the case is that I am not the lone case.
I know friends like you hardly or never delete friends who are otherwise active and responsive.