YOU SHOULD RESPONSE TO MY TOPIC!!!!!!!, WHattttttttt???????????

I agree with you and this is a perfect example of how the word "friend" is being used too loosely these days. Those on my list are not all friends. Indeed very few of them are. They are just "online acquaintances" and if one (or more) of them was to suggest that I should participate in all of their topics, then thank goodness I have a 'delete' button I accept most of the requests that I receive but before I do I usually check their profile and, when I see no activity from them anywhere near any of mine, I often wonder whay they are requesting me If it is because they expect me to appear on all of their topics then they are going to be disappointed because that is impossible, I have so many on my list and many of the topics deal with something that I have no idea about at all. Having friends here gives us the chance to see more topics sooner but it does NOT mean that we are under any obligation whatosever to participate in them

I am not sure at all if you are in my friend list, but for me it doesn't matter if you decide to skip my topic or join in and discuss. It's a free world where everyone has every right to do what they want. but before i go further i would like to ask also, say for example i post a topic, and there's no response to it, is it going to affect my earnings? I am just like you, if i find the topic i can't relate to, i will not response just for the sake of responding or just for the sake of "participatin'. I cannot believe my eyes when i saw a topic that is 2 months old was became today's topic. Meaning that the person would go that extra mile just for the sake of saying something or participate hoping that earnings would increase dramatically. I know and i can see some who responded just for the sake of it, clowning around like no ones business, but as a reminder, if your response or topic happens to be unreasonable, mylot admins will deduct your earnings. I've experienced that myself before.

You are not obliged to respond to all your friends discussions. I have so many discussions made by friends in a day but not all of them that I could really relate or that i have a say to. I was once messaged by a friend that he wants my say on his discussion, he didn't force me though, but he asked my opinion on the matter. i don't really have anything to say, but then when I think over the discussion, I had to be honest and told him I can't relate but i did search it online so I had a little response to his topic. If a friend asked you to respond to his/her discussion, just be honest and tell them that you don't have anything to say, I'm sure they will understand that.

Hi bhabycatch, So far I have not experienced being forced by someone on my friends list to respond on their discussion. I agree with you that we can give our views on the topic to a friend or even those who aren't on our list, only if we can relate to what they write... if we got something to share.

Still now I was not forced or compelled by anyone to respond to any of the discussions over here in mylot. Well it is ones right or likes to respond or not and no one the right to take the control over us

[b][/b]Your absolutely right! We dont have any obligations to our friends here in mylot to respond all their topic because all of us have a freedom here to respond only to the topic that we have interest and we can relate on. Personally I do my best to respond to my friends here in mylot about their topic but when the topic is not on my interest or cant relate about it, I rather to pass and look for other topic which I can relate. I never encounter a friend here in mylot who forcing me to respond to their topic, I think all of my friends here including you are very understand and open minded.

bhabycatch no I would not like that as I respond according to my interests and friend or not if I know nothing about say soccer or cricket I am not going to be able to give an intelligent answer so I do not bother with that. I go to discussions that I can respond to with intelligence and good ideas and am really interested in , some are myfriends and some are not andit makes no never mind with me at all. c

I don't feel obligated to respond to all of my friend's discussions, and so far nobody's begged me to write a response to any of them. Which is a good thing, because sometimes I just don't have anything to say! An off-topic or short response that adds absolutely nothing would probably get deleted, so it doesn't really help anyone to contribute something that isn't helpful or insightful. I go through the discussions my friends have started and I respond to the ones I feel like I have something to say to, and if I've got nothing to say then I don't respond.

Hi, there. There are no pressures and I never felt that I should respond to every discussions of those who are in my friend list and they never asked me to respond to each of their discussions either. However, I would normally go through some of the discussions my friends started and if I find something that I can relate to or share my opinion, then, I won't hesitate to respond. Probably, this has become an issue to some Lotters, but another issue that I notice is when you're openly not 'welcome' in a certain discussion. No, not me, but I've seen comments like this. How embrassing.

Uh uh... Like what I always wrote, I only respond to topic that I can relate with. I don't like to sound funny or look stupid responding topics that I cannot relate with. It doesn't matter if it is my friends topic or not...and no one can force me to do that either..huh? Well, leave those demanding ones...and let's enjoy mylot anyway miss yah

Hello Bhabycatch, you seemed to be not in the mood for this discussion. looks like some one living in the dark ages, forcing you to respond to their discussion but then they won't respond to yours.well, do what you want but not violating discussion rules. who ever person is, i think should stop forcing you. you can still say no and of course, if there's harassment in the words, then you can report it to the admin, who is always active.

No, I do not feel obligated to respond to a topic just because the person who started it is on my friends list. I respond to topics that I am interested in. There are a lot of topics that I just can't relate to on here, therefore I don't respond to them, "friend" or not. By the same token, I don't expect everybody who is on my friends list to respond to a topic that I may start. It's up to them whether they feel they can add to a discussion or not.

No, not necessary...Why should you go around clowning if you don't have to. haven't you other jobs to do that you would do this for nothing friend or no friend. I know you go and answer if you are not easy but you answer briefly and funnily. Friends ....who is friend? Friends are in real world rest are only fans, like I am your fan....cheers. I am not your friend but found your topic worth responding so I came here. I have not many friends but I have no regrets either.

Yes we are not obligated to respond to all our friends topics. We should have freedom of choice or thinking. And too its consistent wlth mylot TOS.

I can only respond to most of the discussions a few of my friends post, and some of the discussions others poost and none of the discussions some post. Only a small handful of my friends ever respond to me these days, even the friends I nearly always respond to. Do I care? Yeah...lil bit...but what can ya do?

there were times that i even send pm's to friends but not actually to ask him or her to respond to my discussions, but to tell him or her that i noticed him or her being a one sided mylot member who starts a lot of discussions but never comment back or respond to other members discussions.

I don't think we should respond to all discussions made by members in our so called 'friend' list; it is impossible; i come here rarely respond to discussions that i like. hugs from maa

I have never told anyone to respond to my discussions or had anyone tell me that either. That is a personal choice. That is why I love it here so much because there are plenty of things to talk about. Everyone can find something they are interested in here. No one should force anyone else to respond to their discussions. And I don't think anyone should respond to a discussion just to respond to it, if you cannot put anything good into it there is really no point in replying...

Hi babycatch, I don't feel the pressure at all, because I respond to my friends discussion(like this one) only if I can relate or I have something that I can share or say that is somehow near the topic. I try my best not to go off topic but I guess that's just me being me.

I haven't encounter such. And I hope I won't be in the future. This is definitely a heads up to other mylotters who really do this. It is not everyone's or every friends obligation to respond to all the discussions that they made. As what you've said, what if we can't relate ourselves to our discussions...then we might be posting a not so quality one that would enable that discussion to be deleted...or our response to be deleted. Anyways, it is indeed a community but it isn't a responsibility to be doing such. We can help in other way. Happy Mylotting.