Friends...Do you always answer their responses?

I answer a lot of my friends discussions, but not all of them. When I respond I want to contribute in a positive way to the discussion. If I can´t relate to the topic or can´t think of anything to say, I don´t reply. What people mean when they say that they are going to take some members of their friends list, they mean members that "never" respond to any of their posts. So, don´t worry you´re not a bad friend. Good luck and have fun here at mylot. Dana

I usually answer to the good discussions(usually the discussions they start on my area of interests)...I dont think we should take someone off the friends list just because they are not reponding to any of your discussions.There may be many reasons for it...Like, 1)They have too many friends to deal with(one of my friend have more than 600) so that they wont have to time to respond to yours. 2)Thay may be out of Mylot for sometime because of some reasons during which they will not put any responses. 3)Your discussions may not be coming in that persons interest area(I usually answer to discussions from my interest even in my friends' case) 4)Your discussion may not be imfluencing them(they think this is not up to the mark to put a response on) 5)They just ignoring you because you are not responding to any of their discussions. 6)Thay just dont care about what ever you put in. The last chance is very rare..I think the first three must be the ones which creates all these problems...what do you think?

If you are choosing discussions to which you can add some in depth comment, as you say, then I would say you are a good myLotter, not a bad one. You are not expected to be able to respond to EVERY discussion a friend posts. I do believe that we have a responsibility to answer as many of our friend's discussions as we can, but not just for the sake of adding some words. I usually start by checking "discussions my friends started". I have some friends who post really interesting discussions, and that is why they are on my friends list. However, they also post discussions in which I have no interest, so I do not respond to those. If I have people on my friends list whose discussions never interest me, I will PM them before deleting them, letting them know it is not a personal thing, but giving the reason. Because I am on a monthly download limit, I cannot afford to have too many friends on my list. It requires me to open too many pages of discussions I cannot respond to.

I do not delete a person for not responding to mine because I can not respond to all of theirs. I do what I can and thats all I can do. I have stopped accepting requests from new friends. If I see them around some I will accept, if not I just wait. I have 7 right now. I have not seen any of them in a discussion.

Of course I don't respond to all my friends' discussions. If it isn't something I'm interested in or have something to say about, I'd rather not respond to it than give a pointless response. There are some friends that have more topics that interest me than others, so I do sometimes wonder if my other friends think I'm being unfair. But honestly I do look at everyone's discussions, I just don't always have anything to say.

in real life, friends are people who share the same interest, helping each other, listen and response to your problem. i think, friends in mylot is pretty much the same. the problem is, there are people who use friends(in mylot) as some sort of MLM (multi-level marketing) scheme. that's why you'll find mylotter who complained that their friends doesn't responded to their discussions. to me, not responding to friends' discussions doesn't make you a bad friend. taking someone off their friends list just for not replying to their discussion does make him/her a bad friend.

I agree with Elkhawk, it's impossible to answer ALL of your friends discussions. I just can't answer anything I don't have an answer on. It's not fair to the friend, either, to post an "I don't know" answer and it's against Mylot's guidelines. And, I don't expect my friends to answer all of mine, either. A lot of people seem to have the idea that you must answer all of your friends discussions. If they stick to that idea, then they're going to be unhappy. The purpose of having friends here is that they're a ready source of fresh discussions. And, it's always good to have friends.

I start with my friends discussions- I try to find some that really grab my attention- It's pretty easy for me because I choose my friends by interest- If someone answers my discussions or I answer alot of theirs I befriend them.. So that way I know what they post will interest me. But if they ask things I know nothing about- then No I won't answer just because I'm a friend- I have to have a good quality response before I will try to respond. Good luck here- I see you're still pretty new-

no i don't response all of them some time i am speech less to write something on my lot.

I think I feel the same as you do. I look for discussion to answer, I just don't answer all of them. I don't think it is right to reply to something that is really not of interest to me. The friends that I have requested to become a friend to usually have discussions that interest me. I'll check out what they have started, and if something interests me, or I have an opinion on it, I respond.

I don't respond to all of my friends discussions, only the ones where I have something to say about it. I also don't expect everyone to respond to mine and I won't delete them off my friends list because of it. It doesn't make you to be a bad friend, there are some things that you don't have much to say about and that's ok.

I try my best to answer discussions that my friends post. I know, however, that I do miss some of them. I am doing the best I can...LOL.

I only respond to discussions if I feel I can add something to the discussion. We don't all have the same things in common and we don't all have experience or knowledge of certain things so I think we can be forgiven for not answering all of our friends discussions. I'm pretty sure most people understand that. It doesn't make you a bad friend at all. It makes you human.

If I am not interesting in my friend's discussion,why I must give a answer?No.sometimes I have no word to say.

No, I don't answer all of my friends discussions. I do however, try to if at all possible. There are times that they will post on something I have no interest in and I see no reason to post to that.

I wanted to respond with my friends discussions, but I can't do that everytime for some reasons. First, I am not interested with the topic they started. Second, when I cannot relate to what they are discussing. And the last one, when I don't have any idea for the topic. We are here to enjoy discussions so I guess it is not compulsary to answer your friends topic. It will just depend on the personality of a person. But personally, I don't remove people from my friend's list just because they are not responding to me.

I don't answer a discussion if I don't have anything relavent to say. I don't feel compelled to respond to discussions started by my friends; if they choose to delete me from thier list than so be it. I, like you, want to give answers that actually say something instead of one-liners just to advance and make a few cents.

If I am not interesting in my friend's discussion,why I must give a answer?No.sometimes I have no word to say.

I've had no friends respond on mine, lol, but thats ok with me, I think eventaully when your friends list grows it would become too time consuming to answer all. I do try with the friends that I have to answer some, but like you, only if I have something to add or is interesint or could be helpful or useful.

i dont answer all but i do relize if you dont answer certain peoples they get all upset that what makes me mad about it.