pending my friend requests

United States
March 9, 2007 11:05am CST
Ok all you mylot posters esp. the hight raked ones. I need a tip or two. I have a big sized group of friends. but i also have some in my pending friends, that i can see have logged on since i requested their friendships. If you have friends in your pending friends. What would you do to try and get them to approve you. Would you reply to their discussions or how would you go getting your pending friends off your pending friends. LOL and NO i dont mean by deleting them.
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55 responses
• United States
9 Mar 07
Well sometimes people don't see the requests right away. I had one that was waiting for 2 days. Sometimes before people approve a friend, they want to check out the persons profile, and look over some of their discussions. Something that might help you, try responding to some of their posts. That seems to help, and that is one of the thing a that I look at.
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@072006 (1276)
• India
9 Mar 07
Hey hi,well i approve all frined request i get as never deny thme just for reason dot wanna be rude to nayone,thts your choice wht you do,as here you can make money just by answering discussions on mylot, and starting new discussions too, infact you can boost your earning by uploading photos, so keep posting quality responses, keep searching good discussions about which you know something and can answer, strictly avoid one liner posts,best luck and happy earning!!!...cheers!!
• United States
16 Mar 07
I used to do that but then I started getting obnoxious PMs from people trying to get me to use their "money making website". Now I check to make sure if the person isn't really here to recruit people or something. I never even checked to see if I still had pending requests out until you mentioned it.
@weemam (13372)
9 Mar 07
I would just leave them and not let it bother you ,I have a habit of just approving everyone who asks me , sometimes I never hear from them again and then sometimes they become really good friends ,Just take it as it comes pal and enjoy xx
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• Ireland
9 Mar 07
They might not have noticed that they have a pending friend request. I alway check the top of the page to see if their is a number after 'Friends' and I will approve them immediately. Sometimes they are just new members who have just joined and haven't posted anything but I wouldn't like to discourage them by refusing their request. It could be hurtful to some people. If your pending requests haven't been answered after a few days then I would just delete them. It won't be long until you forget about them.
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• Jordan
9 Mar 07
well, for me I will try to response to their discussions, also I will try to choose friends that have the same iterests.I hope this will help
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@Connie1013 (1098)
• United States
9 Mar 07
I try to reply to everyone in my friends list. I said TRY. I haven't had the chance to reply to every one yet. I do miss stuff. I did a discussion to see if I was the only one who missed the little number next to friend up top. I left someone sitting for days while I was confused. Just keep trying and replying.
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@melanie652 (2524)
• United States
9 Mar 07
I might go ahead and reply to their discussions. It depends on if it's a discussion I feel I can truly add to. When people request me as a friend, I don't always notice the (1) or (2) or whatever the number is after friends at the top. It's not that I'm ignoring them! Also before I accept a friend, I like to check their profile and see who they are, where they're from. That sort of thing? It's not meant as any sort of disrespect towards someone requesting me as a friend. When I've requested a friend, if it takes a day or two or so before they accept - that's okay. I figure they have their reasons? I've met alot of nice people on Mylot and enjoy their friendships! :)
@aidonia (4209)
• Greece
18 Mar 07
The truth is I don't ask from anyone be my friend any more here and long time (I did it only the last week but was a special friend).I know maybe you disagree with me but for me the friend list have the meaning of friendship.I mean I try response to my friends discussions any more I can (not to all if one start 5-6 at the day)so the time I spend here is not enough for more friends + I except anyones request too. Now if I ask and they didn't except me more than week I delete the request.
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• Serbia And Montenegro
10 Mar 07
Well, if you ask me, i would have just give up the request. I mean, why wait and "hope" for them to notice you and accept you as friend? Maybe they HAD noticed you but don't want to accept the request? If it was me, i wouldn't bother to try get them notice me further.
@crazy1 (479)
• New Zealand
17 Mar 07
Responding to a few of their discussions is a good idea, as they get to know a little about you before approving you as a friend. It works, I've got a few really nice people on my friends list now.
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
10 Mar 07
I've had a couple like that - if they have been online and haven't accepted my invitation I just delete them, figure their not interested. If they haven't been on in a week I delete them, there are alot of people who sign up and then do nothing, I'm looking for friends who are active.
• United States
10 Mar 07
as i went through the pending friend last night i could tell just that. The one who it says signed up 4 weeks ago and havent logged on in 3 i think they gave up. So i deleted them figuring they wont be back.
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@Fishish (696)
• India
10 Mar 07
i dotn think u should bother if someone has nto approved of u as a friend. it is a personal choice and i dont mind it. in fact too many friends are difficult to keep track of. i have onyl a few and i dont want any more. i have nt replied to many friend requests as i dotn want to accept andn if i deny they send a requet again adn become vindictive. so i just keep them piling up:)
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• United States
10 Mar 07
thanks for posting a note instead of replying to the message i sent you privately. i can take the hint and will delete my friend request.
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• Canada
9 Mar 07
Some people like to wait a day or two so they can check out your profile and your discussions and responses. If your discussions aren't something that are interests of theirs then they might not add you, but no big issue. I found that the more posts you get, the more people will send friends requests to you, and I'm not sure why that works. As I responded to more and more discussions and wrote a few of my own I started getting good responses and then people started sending me friends requests. I say try to respond those those who are on your pending list and they may add you to their list. Good Luck.
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• United States
9 Mar 07
I have pending friends as well, and I know these people have logged in since my request. My logic is...they might not notice the "friends" tab when the new # of friend requests pop up beside it, or...they just don't wanna add me because I'm new lol. Either way, I don't take offense. I do try to pick a discussion or two of theirs to respond to. Other than that, there's not much more I can do. I just continue to respond to interesting discussions, guessing it'll raise my "status" over time.
• United States
16 Mar 07
Well I will be honest with you. You had sent me one and I denied it. For the mere fact that your name and picture didn't ring a bell, and I could not remember if you had replied to any of my discussions or not, and mine to yours either. I just cleaned out my friends quarters and deleted over 100 users from my friends page. I found they were cluttering up my page and I really was not all that interested in their discussions. And it seemed they were not interested in mine either, as they never replied to any of them. I apologize-now that I have responded to one of yours, I will send you a request, if that is ok. Have a great day!
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@GardenGerty (160665)
• United States
17 Mar 07
I am sorry, I do not have any tips for you on this. I have only had one keep me hanging, and it turned out that he dropped the site. I forgot about him, but found him yesterday when I was trying to get a hold of someone else and make them my friend. I know when someone requests to be my friend, I look at their profile, see if they say anything interesting, see if they just spam people, and see if they cross any of the boundries I have. My boundaries are pretty broad, so almost all people who request me get accepted. Once in awhile one gets deleted, if they are just spamming me and not adding anything to the site, or if they do not do anything for about six weeks. I have been on a lot this week, but when break is over my time will be limited. I usually deal with friends requests within twenty four hours.
@Eskimo (2315)
10 Mar 07
I started off my accepting everyone who requested, but now am being slightly more selective, however most of my friends have never responded to any of my posts, although I haven't actually managed to post any for several weeks, due to time restraints. I have no idea why some people request to be my friend anyway as they don't appear to have ever read anything I have written (even responses to other discussions), and I haven't responded to them either. I do look at their posts though, and if I think they have topics which I can suitably reply to then I will accept them.
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@freesoul (3021)
• Egypt
11 Mar 07
Sometimes it takes me a day or 2 to approve someone if I'm too busy, many times I hesitate in adding people who did not respond to any of my discussions and I don't accept spammers, it's always recommended that you respond to one or two of someone's discussions when you request their friendship, this to let them know that you are interested in what they write and that you write good responses not spam, if someone is active and doesn't accept the pending request for a few days i would delete it, maybe they don't want to hurt your feeling by refusing you and want you to be the one who walks out :)
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
10 Mar 07
Posting to some of their discussions might get them to see you and go "Oh yeah I need to go approve them" but if it doesn't don't feel too bad about it. It's really their loss. =p Personally I've had a few pending friend requests that I finally deleted because I figured they just weren't going to get around to it. I'm only on so much (job, family, health, other resposibilities), so I know I don't always get to people right away, but it's one of the first things I do when I am on. If I'm not important enough to someone for them to approve me after a couple of days and I know they've been on, I'll just figure it wasn't supposed to be.
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@mummymo (23706)
16 Mar 07
well yvonne I know that some people like to monitor pending friends to make sure that they have something in common or it isn't just someone who wants to send them links to other sites! Just carry on enjoying mylot - be yourself, have fun and these people will see that you are for real! I wouldn't worry too much about whether someone approved me or not, their loss not mine - or at least that is what I would try and tell myself! Good luck x
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