Responding to Friends Discussions, Do you have a system?

Oh wow whiteheather, you sure are well organized. I respond to the ones I want to and just ignore the rest. If I totally run out of topics for the day I sometimes go back and check the notifications, I might have overlooked a few discussions where I would have had something to say. I too get so many mail notifications in a day, but its good to know I don't have to waste time searching for discussions, many are right in my inbox:)

I will not even say how many discussions are in my inbox, but I go through them quickly. If I can respond, I do, then if I want to save some, or print some recipes, I do, if I know I have nothing to say on the topic, they are gone. I only look at each one one time. I would be sunk, otherwise. I get very little time to be on the computer.

That sounds like a pretty good system. Probably won't work for me though since I have all the buttons off (Except the one for Doublebb66, I want to know right away when he comes back). I like the part about giving some thought to some of the discussions and I think I'll need a way to do that. I just zip around and throw in answers and an hour later is when I remember what I really shuld have said.

Wow that is a lot I would not mind that amount to go through in the mornings, Oh there are some that I delete as well as there is not enough information to give a decent reply to so I have to delete these ones. I do not have a full system, but but I do sort some of them and I respond to these I then go back to my old discussions for which I have a folder and as I have already given a response, if needed or a positive mark, and then after 1-2 days I give the best response. This is my system that I work through and find it successfully working for me.

I thought that I was the only one that actually did something like that. I have the notify on for all (minus 4) for over 300 friends. I have usually around 80 emails in the am to look through. I read all through my email and if it's something that interests me or something that I can respond to I place it in a folder marked "new discussions to respond to." If it's something that I don't have strong feelings for then I put it in a folder marked "my lot discussions." If it's something I have no knowledge of or of no interest to me then it goes to the trash. Then through out the day as I have time I can sit down and go to the folder marked "new discussions to respond to" and I don't have to sift through a bunch to get to the ones that interest me or that I have an opinion about. I also have folders marked for recipes and poems/jokes. I don't respond to these but they are saved. Well I take that back I have responded to a few jokes and poems, but only the ones that move me or make me ROTFLOL. I like your system and may try that, I especially like the folder marked "Give some thought" I may add that as now I find that I skip over it and then on my next break back on mylot find that one to respond to. I like the fact that it would have it's on folder. Thank you for this discussion and sharing your system. Happy mylottying!

I go back and forth. Usually I try to view 12 friends or so a day, and respond. Then I move on to discussions, that I am interested. I try to address friends every day. just like I would want them to check my questions too.

Well, you must only have about 50 friends who are active or less. I recently have chosen to turn off all of the notifiers of my friends, as I could not keep up, and some days do not have much time to be online here, so it would only continue to fill up to where my inbox would become overloaded. For me, I have my Faithful friends that I do tend to follow when I can, and go in and see if they have started something that I am interested in responding too, and then I check who is responding a lot to the posts I have started and try to respond to some of theirs, and then go from there. I have a lot of friends, and the problem is trying to keep up with everyone that continues to be active in here. But what I can tell you, if you choose to respond to any of mine, chances are I am going to return the favor, as anyone who responds to any of my discussions, I do go respond to one of theirs if I find something worth responding too. This is a Good way I find at first to get to know some of the many people who continue to post here day after day. Overall, I think I have no real method, but always interested to see how others do it here as well.

No not really I have only the ones turned on where I know that most of the time I will respond to them and I work my way through them as I get them. As for the others I will reply to if I see them in my Friends Discussion as those will be the ones where I will just reply to some of theirs.

I had to turn the notify off on mine. I do have a few on but only two or three. I always check my last discussion and rate it, while doing this I open another window with that persons profile. After rating everyone I go to my open windows and begin looking for a discussion from anyone that responded to my discussion. I now have 450 friends and I can't respond to all of them. So to be fair I only respond to the ones who support my discussions. If I finish that and still need more discussions then I open the page that says discussions my friends started and go through that for some more post.

I never really figured out a system due to my lazyness I think. I just go to discussions my friends started and begin. When there are none on the first page or I've already seen them I go to page two, but that's not usually needed. If one of my friends responds in one of my discussions that I know I haven't responded to lately I go to thier profile and check for discussions. I really have too many friends to turn on the notifier for all of them so I'll be looking for the best way to handle it in this discussion. I probably should delet alot of the friend on my list..lazyness again..grrrr

i have all my notifications on as well. i try to look through all of them and write them all done. then i go through my friends list find the ones that started discussions and respond to as many as i can. i also look at the top discussions page because some of my friends have discussions there that i may not know about because i don't check my email many times a day.

I only just "twigged" yesterday, that I can turn on the notifiers. I webnt through about 20 and had them turned on, but there are a lot to go. This morning there were about 8 notifying me of a discussion being started. I am repoding to them all. But obviously when the list gets too larege I won't be able to. I will have to think of a method that is fair. Plus, I respond to some of my responses and rate them. Rate pictures too.

I just check the discussions my friends started link and go down the list until I start seeing the same things from the day before. I don't get much of a chance to reply to them all but I try. It's hard to find time for mylot inbetween school and work.

I think im gonna do that also, at least it will help me keep track of my friends discussion and at the same time help them by replying to their posts too. You're very organized indeed. My usual focus when i log in on the discussions with no responses, and i try to look at past discussions which up to now doesn't have a response yet, at least they will get a response =)

I go through my " discussuions my friends have made " , I try to answer them all , when I am doing my respones on my discussions I check back on them if they are from my friends and double check I have answered all of their new ones , Its not too organised and I hope I havn't mised anyone out xx

i only get emails notices from only a couple of freinds who has started a new discussion.i answer them frist an then i go to my freind list an see what they have started an respond to them.the ones that makes no sence to me i dont respond to

wow that is good thing to response to our friends and thanks for share kind of useful tips for us.

yes, i answer for to those i have the most knowledge and then after those post, i tried the others, i really wanted to respond to friends who are in my list first than in others.....

I don't have a system at ALL lol. I'm incredibly disorganized on here. I usually go through the top discussions of the day first, answer what I want to on there, and then check out my friends one by one. It's not always possible for me to check them out all the time so I really should get some sort of a system in place for making sure I get to them at least once a day. Responding to friends should be a top priority for us, I should do it on a more regular basis. Oh well, I'm still a relative newbie lol, I'll learn with time what works best.

i think, as we start discussion and any body response will pay him and also to the persion who start discusion as well. so both are being benefitted. In this case, if you just respond them then it will save your time which u use to slect discussion topiuc and then respond them In this case u will alse be apyed in the same amount as well.