Do you help your friends out by checkin out there questions?

Well if I didn't I would not be here answering your reply, now do you think that you could respond to the message that I sent you two days ago. lol I do respond to my friend's replies on here if I feel that I have something of value to add to that discussion.

If you ask my friends, yes, many of them would tell you that when they are new to my friend list, I will often start to go through their old discussions helping them out. I am a dedicated friend. I also have every friend on notify so when they create a new discussion, it goes to my inbox. Since acquiring so many friends, that has become my main source of finding discussions to respond to. However, for the past four or five days, this notification has not been working for some of us. Therefore, I am now going through others discussions here in the community to help out. I hope the notification feature starts working soon for me because I hate to think that my friends think I am not dedicated. :) But on that note...those I befriend, I expect the same friendship in return. Because if the favor is not returned...would it be a real friendship?

I usually work off of the email notifications that I get; that helps me stay on top of things but if I am offline for more than 12 hours, it can pile up and be a real chore to work through. The downside to this is that you only get to see the thread title and what the thread poster puts up, you can't see the responses unless you go to their profile or post something then read the other entries. This can lead to a little bit of repeated things but for me, its what works best.

Well, the first thing I check everyday, after I'm done with my own discussions, are my friend's discussions, first because they do the same for me, and also because the main reason we are friends is because we share the same interests, and therefore I would find the most interesting discussions there itself. Some days I pick a user and go through all of their discussions and respond to all the ones that interest me. I usually do this when I accept a new friend or when I send someone a friend request. Like I'm doing now. But there's a downside to it, that I won't be able to reply to any of your discussions for quite sometime, unless you come up with new ones, because I'm all done with the ones you already have.

I have been trying to respond to the discussions of my 'friends' but am beginning to think I do not have the right ones. Some of their discussion are really weird and one of them just posts new things and never replies to anything. Still I do like to read his topics and it does not take very long as there are no replies. Another one has only started a few topics. I have started some but have few responses as don't have the right friends. It does not matter to me and I am not fishing as I have only just joined and am finding my feet. I am navigating a bit better and being more choosey about friends. That is why I agreed to be yours. It is good for the ego to have some young lads as friends!!!

I do browse through the discussions my friends start. I might not have anything to contribute to the discussions themselves, but I'll often pop in and at least give them a + rating for it if it's not a junk topic (unfortunately I accepted a few friends before I realized they post mostly junk and then I got pickier - socorban, you're one of the good ones!).

Personally, it depends on the amount of time I have to spend on here. Today is another one of the short amount days so it is harder to check out very many of my friends discussions and respond to them, but I did respond to a couple of them. What I try to do, is find discussions worth responding too, and then move on from there. Also, anyone who responds back to any Discussion I have started, I take the time to go and check out the Discussions that they have started and see if there is one of theirs I can respond too. I feel that is one of the Best ways overall to learn about someone else as well. Even if they are not a Friend yet, maybe they are worth being one?

Yes I do, first i respond to those who responds to my discussions and then go to discussions started by my friends and then to the top or recent discussions.

i am new to the site, so i only have 2 friends so far, but i do go check what they have posted first and answer the ones that i have a opinion on and then i usually go the the discussions without responses to answer some of those.

Hhhhmmmm...it's a mixture. Depending on my schedule or what I'm doing will I go to the friend's list. Too bad there isn't a way to discard from your record the discussions I've responded to. Sometimes when I've posted a comment, it's just to add my two cents worth. But those drown out the real juicy tid bits of a discussion. I dunno, maybe I should just stick with my friend's only list. It seems when I go to outsiders and answer their genuine questions, my rating spirals downward. I like reading your discussions because they are honest and down to earth. I know I should go through and rate all of my friend's and those whom have commented on my stuff. But, they pile up quicker than I can handle.

I do the friends list first, but often the same ones that are popular show up during the same time period. So I do what Wondericequeen recommended, go to one friend at a time's profile and answer questions that person has written. So first, discussions posted by my friends. Whoever comes up on two pages, I answer. Then go to one friend's profile at a time. Then discussions from my interests. Sometimes I go to interests and then a single profile. Whatever I think will be faster for the evening. I usually do the profile thing when I want to answer quite a few questions in one evening. The interests to add one or two discussions because it takes awhile to sift through everything. Take care