Online friends - how much should we interfere in their daily lives

Hi mayka! I think if one is not free to chat or to answer routine questions, it could be politely told to the online friends. At times it gets irritating to answer the same sort of questions. No one asks me on chat window what am wearing or was I sleeping ..........lol!

I guess this type of communication starts, when you share that comfort level with your online friend. You have to draw a line, if you are really not comfortable, don't respond, the person will understand as you are in no mood to discuss more on this.

On mylot it i generally newbies who ask these questions because of that I use to answer them, but now I have been asked so often that I just past them by.

I never ask these kinds of questions of either my online friends or my offline friends. I think this kind of questioning is rude and borders on stalking. I don't consider what you had for lunch or what you are wearing as any of my business and I would never to presume to chastise anyone for taking a long time to answer a post or text. Since I feel this way about your privacy I would expect you to respect mine as well. If you started to interrogate me in this fashion I would politely inform you, at least once that your actions were inappropriate. If you continued in this fashion I would have to block you from my contacts.

sometimes.. but it`s not detailed like that mayka.. it seems that we had fall in love with our online friends if we are asking the detailed question like that

I do not like being questions about my daily activities. Prefer blocking such friends if they interfere too much in my life.

I am not chatting with anyone unnecessarily. I have added some friends in my chat list they all are from mylot only. I am rarely chatting with any of them regularly. If there is anything special to communicate I prefer to send a mail. I knew well all are busy with their own works and I really don’t like to disturb anybody. Since it is online, you can ignore the person easily by blocking. Those who don’t have common sense deserved a hard knock.

It has been years since I had friends like that. I suppose with all that has been going on over the past few years, I have very few friends that I only know online. I have had some obsessive people, though I knew them at one time or another in my life, who I would encounter again online, and wanted to know my movements on a daily basis. There was even one person, who came to my state for a visit without telling me, and tried to look me up in the phone book. I got an angry message because the person with my name they found called them psychotic. It was the wrong city, even. I felt I did nothing wrong, since I never even knew it was happening. I think that pretty much killed the friendship. I have had to block people in the past. I was more naive then, I would give out personal info, sometimes even my phone number, thinking someone was a great friend. I never really inquire about things people do, most people I know are really private, even my own family is vague most of the time.

I had an online friend who asked me all sorts of questions about my daily life. In the morning she sent me messages like this one: "Good morning I hope you have slept well. What are you doing today?" - after that other quetions about my daily life followed. I thought that she was either bored, lonely or very curious. The questions didn't bother me much. I generally think that my online friends can ask any question that they choose, but that does not mean that I am going to answer every question! If there are too many questions I simply ignore all of them or some of them. After a while the many questions stopped, she probably noticed that I ignored most of them and she stopped asking me all those questions. Today we are still friends.

Should probably know this isn't acceptable. However, as pointed out by someone else, that doesn't mean it's so. And I think many younger users have a very different set of rules regarding what's acceptable. Those from our generation often have a more private view of Internet activities. However, it's not unheard of for those from our generation to use Internet rules that are common to younger people. If they have been told politely, of any age, I would block them.