Some new mylotters with a desperate need for friendship...

There is one such user that is disturbing me She is on her (at least) third account and I have her pending. All she is doing is adding friends Last time, her first time here, I ended up on her list without her even sending a request and I started a topic about it and contacted GAA.

"Would you let an unknown person into your house?" Maybe ... it depends on whether or not he looks like Shemar Moore. I don't usually accept people that have a zero user rating. I will leave them pending wait until they decide to become active to accept the friend request. However, I have been burned with this method as well, because a few of them spammed me with referral links even after they became active. *GRRRR*

Hello marguicha, I have some friends in my list with zero credits. They added me soon after their sign up in mylot. I have received many members’ first friend request here and I don’t want to discourage them in the beginning and adding them even if they don’t have any credits against their name. Many turned active in mylot later and unfortunately some are still in the old position. Thankfully they are not sending referral or any kind of messages to me so I am not disturbed with any of them. They are not harmful and let them be in my list.

serial spammers more like...

I would certainly hope that someone has at least made one post of some kind before trying to become a friend. I do usually accept all friend requests, but I haven't paid much attention to the number of posts they had made. It would be nice if they would make some kind of discussion so that they could be at least a little known. Thanks for bringing this up!

A few weeks back if someone would make a friend request, I would accept them right away. I would assume that they would really wanna be friends. But lately, I was looking at their profile first before I approve and most of them have 0 participation in mylot. I was a bit puzzled. What is it with newbies that they gather friends first before discussing. I found some to have more than friends than me but they didn't make a single post. Is that a strategy to gather people first to answer to their discussions before really making any discussion? hahaha...

Dear friend I think most of us must have received such an request from one of the newbie on this forum in the recent past with an attractive female photograph as a profile image and with zero discussions and zero responses. I have noticed the request in my friends request section and I noticed the same person in various other friend's, in their respective friends list. I really don't know ant thing about this type of persons and how can I really approve such friends? I disapprove this friend and also will disapprove friends about whom I won't have any details. These people either can have some criminal back grounds or may be they simply want to use us to spam us to become their referrals. This is one of the typical way of doing the thing, on such social forums! In nut shell I will never appreciate any friend who doesn't have sufficient standing on the forum and doesn't provide enough of information to reveal his/her identity! Thanks !

Call it spam if you will. There's little motive they have except adding people at random. While I'm not sure why they do that, they do it. I'd say, you're safe to ignore.

I let them sit and see if they ever do respond... or, if they are from certain countries and of certain ages, I just delete them because I've discovered I have enough friends of that age and in that country to know that NOTHING they want to talk about will be of any interest to me (soccer, Bollywood, making money)

Here on Mylot, I accept every friend requests. Since I am not that active here, I only have a maximum of 5 friend requests in a week and I only add a few mylotters because I don't have much time to check their profile. I only add those who comment on my discussions though I really want to meet new friends here. I don't add people just to be popular or to collect. I want to interact with every friend I have. Time is not just enough for me.

I don't know if it's the same person , but yesterday I received an invitation for friendship and I noticed 0 activity , so I had to decline. I like to give new members a chance to be friends here , but if there are really 0 activity , I'd be tad suspicious. LoL at the serial killer joke.

I used to just add people who ever requested.. but I realize how that's not so much of a great idea. But in real life, it happens to me too... some people just assume we are friends just because we converse... there really never is a formal proposal for friendship in real life, which I think is super weird! I have a lot of qualities I expect from individuals to be my friend.

I normally do not turn any one away as I too was new at one time. I have lately waited a day or two to see if they are going to continue or not as I do not delete friends either. I do not have problems with spamming as the first time they do I reply back saying that if their intent is to spam then I will have to let them go. It usually stops after that. You prefer member after 1700 posts?? No wonder you and I are not friends.

The way you mentioned , they do not seem to be genuine people so just ignore them.

Hello Marguicha! Well I have at least reached the "90´s" (posts) hehe. I´ve accepted a "newbie" and she offered my to sign up in a url that pays for using its chat. That was all! Blessings!... Dainy

I get a lot of newbies ask me for friend request as well. I usually do not refuse to add them as friends. I don't think the newbies really want to get to know you but they want to find more discussions from friend started options. I don't mind it since my purpose of using mylot is not meeting friends.

Some people only join because someone asked them to. They are not interested in the site and they do nothing with it. But to go around trying to get friends? For what reason? It sounds like they want freebies. You know, why use the Tasks to get your sign ups when you can spam your "friends" email accounts? All in all since I don't want to be around people who "do nothing", I probably would not be friends with them either.