i'm holding off replying to any other discussions started by friends and ...

I think I do both equally. As for notifications I turn all of mine off. I can find my friends discussions and who responded without them.

I've noticed that I'm more of a responder than a starter. It's easier for me to participate in discussions started by someone else than for me to think of my own topic. It's not that there's nothing I could think of. In fact, there are lots of things that I feel are interesting to discuss. But mostly what I come up with are quite similar to what has been posted by others and I'm concerned that it might just get deleted for being a duplicate topic or something.

Well, from time to time we do find ourselves starting more discussions and trying to resolve them than responding back to someone else, and that is OK. I know it really depends on my mood and what is going on, but more lately I have been trying to focus more on resolving some of my older unresolved discussions here as well.

Four months ago, I wrote my own discussions and just rated the responses. LOL. I didn't really know that I have to comment back to the responses. Haha. How foolish of me. Then, I saw some of my friends exchanging messages and Ms. Hatley told me that I have to answer them back. Thanks to her. I am earning a lot more nowadays than before. I posted a lot of my discussions and until now I haven't replied to some of the responses and comments. I've spent the last two days, yesterday and the day before yesterday in going back to all my responders. I'm glad that I'm almost over but I haven't chosen the best responses yet. For me posting my own discussions has a lot of responsibility. If I can't comment back to the responders maybe they'll feel bad about it so if I'm busy, I just focus on responding to our fellow mylotters discussions. I just post one or two discussions in a week. If you make your own discussion, it's easier to respond because you know the subject matter well compared to when you respond to our fellow mylotter's discussions. I never force myself to respond to other fellow mylotters' discussions. I enjoy participating in their interesting posts. Goodluck. I hope you have a lot of time replying all your responders. Happy mylotting.

Hi allen! Personally, I would like to do both things. I would want to start my own discussion and at the same time, I would like to respond and comment to others discussion. But of course this is where the issue of time availability will come in. For me who is working on a permanent basis, it would not be easy to devote time for both. So what I do, I would start new discussion every other day to give me time to reply to those who responded and thus making enough time also to respond to others discussion. Although there are times that if I have something in mind I would start it at once. Have a nice day!

oh, well when i first started in here, i just respond to other people discussion, but then i realize sometime i did not get notify if i keep respond it. im also not sure why? then i start my own, its make me easy to handle it, because i know that is my discussion, even i miss the notify, i just can check on the profile. but, there is sometime make me curious about, i try to search for the answer, but still cannot understand it. like, i respond to other, then they comment about it, then i reply it again. i still get notify. compare to when i comment other responder on the discussion, i don't get any email notify. is that the notify we just get when the owner reply on our respond

I replied both discussions. I am giving 50/50 for my response in order to balance. Sometimes, I am sometimes to delete emails from Mylot. I read also some new discussions and comments. I make it minimum of 5-6 sentences for my reply or discussions.

hi I earn more if I do a combination of making my own discussions and commenting back on the responses I get and also responding to my friends discussions that interest me. also I love to comment back o n comments and keep commenting to others comments and learn so much about my friends and get to laugh and joke with them and have fun here. I think we all should do what we enjoy best and we all will earn from having fun here and enjoying ourselves.

Sometimes my mind is a blank in which case I'm happy to read what others have to say and respond to their discussions. Other times something comes to me that i want to share. I think the important thing is that you do reply if someone takes the time to respond to one of your discussions, although I must admit it can get tedious if the discussion gets far more responses than you imagined and half of them say the same thing.

You know, there are times when I have a lot to say, it just so happens its to other people through their discussions. I've started plenty of discussions and sometimes I find myself with a question I might want input for, most of the time I feel I need to give advice when people need it. I've been here a while so I'm sort of in between.

I rarely start my own discussions. I normally respond to everyone elses. I start out at the today's top tab, then next is my interests, then friends started and hot. That is how I handle the discussions and I only respond to the ones that I think I can add to the conversation. If I don't feel I have anything to add I just skip it.

I will say that there are loads of people that starts discussions and just like me I can not keep up no more than a lot of people, neither can I always answer all my friends discussions, as there are other things as well as other people that I have to sort out. I try to get on here when I can, but sometimes no sooner that I have come on here I have to stop and come off for many reasons, sorry if I have been not about to answer yours or anyone elses discussions, but illness, as well as family life has and will always stop me.

I get so many.. would be hard for me to keep up with all of them. I do try to respond to most of them. Have a great sat. there.

I usually just respond to other people's discussions. But you are right, there are more participation points when you start your own discussion. I should try starting more of my own discussions.