To Post Or Not To Post

@Adversa (406)
Australia
December 29, 2006 2:01am CST
I make it a point to go regularly and visit in all of my friends posts, and leave a comment. Its just the way I feel the freindship thing works. One of the other things I do here is not post in a discusion when I really have nothing to add, or at least when the I dont share an interest in the topic. But what do you do when your friend makes a post your not really interested in (topic wise)? Do you do the polite thing and post anyway - even though you have nothing to add? Or do you just leave it alone and hope your friend/friends dont think your ignoring them?
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53 responses
• Singapore
29 Dec 06
i'm like you as well, my priority will always to respond to my friends discussion..however, i will never respond to any discussion that i dont know and dont have anything to add on. i think you are doing great here..and if everyone is doing exactly like you...that's the spirit of friendship in here! i have deleted a lot of friends in my profile as they dont bother to respond to any of my discussions but kept on starting discussions...well, i dont need on way friendship...
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@Adversa (406)
• Australia
29 Dec 06
I removed all of my friends that were making lousy posts too. I am not going to associate twith people on here that are going against the rules.
@Adversa (406)
• Australia
30 Dec 06
\/ LOOK HERE \/ This is a mass reply to everybody who has replied to my post. I want to thank you all for sharing your opinion and veiws. I have read every reply (to this point) and have rated each one acordingly (99% witha plus). I was not expecting so many replies, and to be honest I dont have the time to answer you all one at a time. Just wanted to thank you for your interest, and for returning with thoughtfull replies. Please have a great day - cheers.
@Adversa (406)
• Australia
14 Jan 07
Ok, new plan. If I dont reply, I have rated!
• United States
29 Dec 06
I respond to all sorts of posts but I don't expect my mylot friends to respond to all of my discussions. I would go with what you feel most comfortable with since there are many people here on mylot that might respond to the discussions that you don't feel you can add to
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• India
29 Dec 06
i agree with you . your friends also expect that from you. I believe you can give best opinion on a discussion only if you are interested in it. If you are not it will get reflected upon your opinion and that might disappoint your friends.
@plumwish07 (4057)
• Indonesia
29 Dec 06
i think my friend wont feel i ignoring them if they posting new topic discussion and i dont post my response to there. coz why i should post my response if the topic discussion not too interesting to response? i m here coz i enjoying mylot not only searching money, so for me its not too neccessary to post our response in our friend's topic if its not interesting
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@pumpkinjam (8767)
• United Kingdom
29 Dec 06
I will post on friends questions as often as I can but if I haven't got anything constructive to say, I usually jnust leave it. But then, I have got a lot of friends on here and several of them post a lot so there will usually be something within their discussions where I can comment, I don't think there is any need to comment on things where I'm neither interested nor useful just because they happen to be my friends questions. Of course, I want my friends to do well but there are plenty of other people on here who have good questions. If I had the time to answer everybody's then I probably would!
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@Adversa (406)
• Australia
29 Dec 06
fair enough - I dont have a huge number of friends, and some of them arent terribly active. I finsd I can genarally get around them all if I have an hour or so to kill.
@Phatmat (104)
• Australia
29 Dec 06
since i have very little friends (3), i don't really know what i would do. but think about it, if your friend posted a discussion what you are not interested in, i see no point to respond. if you respons to it and have no knowledge and involvement, you will give a bad answer. i would rather prefer no answer than a bad answer. thats just my opinion, others may think differently.
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@hurri03 (40)
• Romania
29 Dec 06
Hm...Maybe you should post if this helps you friend...You can post and say that you don't know so much about that subject...and other things.
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@lulylove (1560)
• Brazil
30 Dec 06
I think as you. But I think also that you must try to respondeer, and to not only say: I do not know. Therefore thus its reply would be disrespected and of nothing it would advance.
@Adversa (406)
• Australia
29 Dec 06
but isnt that against the TOS? Answering with an I dont know answer is breaking the rules right?
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@riyasam (16556)
• India
14 Jan 07
all i would like to add is that A FRIEND IN DEED IS A FRIEND IN DEED.
@wmg2006 (5381)
• United States
29 Dec 06
I always try to find at least one topic I can post to for a friend. That is not always possible so I try back again the next day. I am thinking of deleting some of my useless friends too.
@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
29 Dec 06
I feel like if you have nothing constructive to say, say nothing. Why waste valuable discussion space saying,"Sorry, I haven't seen that movie or read that book". I then try to find a discussion by them that I can add too. You get more points by actually adding to the discussion than just taking up space. Just because you are on my friends list, doesn't mean I won't give you a negative for a non-contributory response.
• India
29 Dec 06
i never reply to any of my friends posts and i dont ever make any friends on my own here.when they approach me its ok.i accept and still now nobody has ever replied to my discussion.i am not offended nor am i angry.but i must say i should not from any expectations from them nor should they because replying to any topic is exclusively on my interest and i am here not to please anybody.i am here to enjoy and i do that by participating in interesting topics,not what do had for dinner tonight?etc etc kind of topics.everybody in here post for their pleasure and definitely not for pleasing others.if you have to keep friendship,well send them messeges,communicate with them,thats it.i know most of you people would get angry at my post but i have told what is genuine to me.thanks
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• Hong Kong
30 Dec 06
I used to do the same as you. Review the new discussions which my friends have started and give a response to them because they are my friends. Also I find that some of my friends really do the same as me. The post a response to almost all of my discussions. But now I feel that it is not easy to keep up with it as my friends become more and more. And I also find that there are some topics which I really have little knowledge and can't give a resonable response. So I don't try to response all the discussions my friends started. I choose the topics I am interested and have some knowledge, because I don't wanna to post some usless responses. I think my friends would understand me. Maybe they also have the same idea. Happy new year!
@mcrowl (1050)
• New Zealand
29 Dec 06
One of the things about being a writer is that working on a topic you don't particularly enjoy brings out the creativity in you. I've found that I've been posting on all sorts of topics in the last few days. The only ones I tend to leave alone are those that don't seem to be a topic in the first place.
@Adversa (406)
• Australia
29 Dec 06
Perhaps you could give me instructions. I dont seem to very good at writing narratives - I'd love to be able to.
• India
29 Dec 06
Friend we should be true to our friends .you can responed them by saying i have no idea about this.if he is a friend he doesnt take nothing.If you dont have intrest thats your whish noboys hurt my friend.
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@Janono630 (238)
• United States
29 Dec 06
I believe this is a great way to get friends to make each other feel like they care about each other.
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@kadia123 (60)
• Australia
14 Jan 07
Well first of all, maybe your friends are pretty new to here! Like myself I am still finding my way around. And honestly how many actually read the terms and conditons??? I did and Im still trying to put my head around some of the things they told us we are to do!?!?! I will do my very best to answer my frieds posts, but if it is not in my field or area, then I would at least just say that I have read it and also say I have no comment to add. That way they know that you are reading them!
@Adversa (406)
• Australia
15 Jan 07
Oh Kady, I made this post long before you joined us in the wonderfull land of mylot. I can promise to always make an effort for you, and if I dont post then rest assured I have rated. the least I can do is a bump for you. Big Hugs for you... You Rock :D
@remaster74 (4064)
• Greece
29 Dec 06
I wouldn't even dream to post something that I have no interest in or knowledge. I prefer to use my opinions in a right way. If friends know that then friends trully they are. For example I have no inteest in cricket, in football or basketball. What should I write? "Sorry, not interested!" ? I prefer to pass that one.
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• United States
29 Dec 06
I usually try responding to my friends' posts, however, I don't have a lot of online time. I don't have time to respond to every discussion from every one of my friends. Therefore, I try to respond to at least one of each of my friends discussions when I do get a chance to get online. Hopefully, they will all be understanding about why you are not responding to every single discussion they make.
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• India
29 Dec 06
I think this is not the way to post in their profiles.
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@tmansoor0 (206)
• Qatar
29 Dec 06
I do agree with this point. I too regularly try to post responses for my friends. This is the only way to get loyal responses to your post and earn more money. But sometimes are friends put us in dilemna with meaningless discussions. Hope the standard in mylot and particularly in our friends group will improve.
• Qatar
29 Dec 06
Friends can easily misjudge u if u dont reply
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@Muslimah (811)
• United States
29 Dec 06
Yeh i think thats nice of you to reply to friends even if you dont like the topic. Its a way let them know that someone is behind them. It sounds to me as if you know the true value of friendship. Keep it up.
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