My Lot friends! how do you decide

Okay, so you all are depressing me. LOL. I have only had one person request me as their friend. I'm not too surprised though as I seem to some how have theory's and opinions that rate more with the minority than with the majority. Okay, and I've only been here for two days..lol. Mostly I thought it was an interesting question as I myself was wondering about that. Thanks for the insight.

I decide on who I approve as my friends by what they post. If they have the same interests as me and post topic discussions that I'm interested in, I'll add them. I've approved all my friends request so far.

I will look at ther responses and their profile before I send a request. I usually try to stay with those fomr one of my interests. When I receive a request I look at the profile to see age, location, and whether or not they have put their gender on the profile. I no longer accept those with no gender on their profile.

I pick people based on their statements. If they have started discussions that I am interested in, I will choose them. If I like their particular way of answering, I'll choose them.

For me it's the whole package. I look at what discussions the person has posted: does this person post things I would be interested in responding to, I look at the topics the person has responded to: will they respond to my type of posts, I look at their friends: if someone has 1000 friends chances are they are not going to have time to post quality responses to my discussions, I look at their interests: not real big but if I see someone has no interests in common with them then no thank you and same if I see something I totally disagree with same thing, another thing I look at is how long they've been a member and their activity: if someone has been a member for a few days and has 1000 posts chances are they are not quality posts. Yes, you are one of my friends and I liked what I saw and look forward to being friends for a long time.

I usually pick them if they give a particularly interesting response to one of my discussions, or they offer a lot of discussions themselves that I find interesting. I don't have that many friends on my list, I really like to respond to my friends discussions, and don't think it's fair to just add them for them to respond to mine. :) Hope this helps.

I don't pick them, they pick me. I have often wondered why they want to be my friend. I usually allow people to be added to my friends list. At first I denyed people because I didn't like the idea of people just adding me or want to be added just for the reason of being added. That isn't really being a friend now is it?

Well All of your conditions apply on me. Sometimes I do pick to pick(very least) Sometimes It is Their good responses(most of the time) Sometimes Due to the similar intrests(very less) And Sometimes It is Due To their requests. So all of them are here . As for You, I haven't yet added you. But if I had It would be because of your Post. It is quite Intresting topic You have Started.

I haven't turned many people down as friends. Perhaps just one or two as a matter-of-fact. I don't request many people as friends, but I do select friends that I think have well thought out discussions and responses. People who I think either tend to have the same belief system as I do, or people with exact opposite belief systems that are respectful of my opinion. I think both are equally valuable as one encourages and the other challenges me.

Initially when I joined, I accepted almost every friend request that came my way, but now I'm very picky. Being on a friend's list means responsibility to a certain extent. They should respond to your discussions (the ones that interest them) and I do the same. I did some cleaning up in my friends list a month back and deleted everyone who wasn't active nor cared for my discussions. I send friend requests when I feel a person's responses are good, and we connect at the writing level. It feels good when somebody shares your enthusiasm and spirit. I sure am picky about my friends here, I'm glad I have a few wonderful ones.

i join everones friendship hwoever he is. because i think is a person has send u friendship request without seeking any profit then u must owner him

To be homest i have not yet added any friends since i joined in, but have accepted tons of requests to be friends, just love seeing a number on top of the friends icon. But have not been around that much to really seek and add a friend. Maybe in tiem i will do that.

I usually read a few of their posts and their replies - then I go look at their site - and sometimes I am just "moved" or "compelled" to do so....hope that makes sense.

I pick someone that I liked their response. And I rate him/her and I send msg. Sometimes I add someone that created a topic that interested me and sometimes I add someone when I have a mistake, question!

I just go to their profile and check them out and see where they are from too. Then I make my choice if I want them or not.

I approve all the pending requests because I like to have many contacts

When I get a friend request I first see in their profile what kind of discussions the have posted, if I am interested to respond that kind of discussions or not. I don't accept friend who does not have posted any discussions. Then I look how many friends they have, if they have 500-600 friend I don't accept them. But I really don't like to deny friend request.

Actually I dont have much time to check people out. I have found the best thing is letting everyone be your friend. I do this. I will add you. Go ahead and try. I add EVERYONE! I got some friends too, dont know how. But I will add them all back I promise! :))

When some one request me for a friend request, I don't see whether he has answer my discussion or because of their personal statement , i just approve him because it is good to have many friends here.

i pick with whom my interests matches... and person who gives reasonable responses... otherwise i don't go around picking friends...