What do you do with myLot Private Messages?

I don't delete them too. If I delete them, I won't have a record of the conversation anymore. I really hope myLot will make the messages section more user-friendly zzz... If myLot introduces a new rule that we can only keep xx number of messages, I will probably wipe them all then. Till then. :P

I leave for a short time if it is a friend that I correspond with. I do that to remind me what we have been talking about so I know to follow up with them on whatever it was. I guess you could say I save them to help me be a better friend. If it is just a message from someone asking a question or leaving a nice remark, I reply sincerely and then delete them right away. I do that because otherwise things seem to pile up for me. I tend to get overwhelmed when things pile up for me.

I leave them for a short time and then delete them. There is no reason to save them unless they have info in them that you may need.

I like to keep messages just to make sure I answer any questions. I would hate to get a couple of messages mixed up. I file everything at home too, to refer back to.

That is really funny I save all of mine too, I wasn't even aware there was a delete option until I seen this discussion and then I had to go and look..funny thing there, but it is a good thing a link that I was looking for from when I first started was still there along with a friends email so all in all saving them has proved to be a good thing.

I keep them for a while and eventually trash them. If there is info that I think that I may want latter I copy and paste it into a notepad file that I keep for that. Then I have created a shortcut on the desktop to it.

I am not the kind of erpson to throw things away, this includes messages. I really enjoy when I hear a message from someone. It is nice to know that someone thinks of me enough to send me a message.

It's not really a problem for me since I don't have that much messages as you, and I make sure that they extend as "discussions" by responding to the same message again and again when talking with someone, you can see the whole history of a conversation in one message that looks like a normal mylot discussions but it only goes between two people.. I would still delete some messages if the members have been deleted from my list or if it wasn't important message..

I am also quality of 'saving' them. I have a lot but not sure of the number. Most of mine all have at least 3 'RE:'sand some times many more! I keep meaning to get it cleaned up but you guys write these discussions that I really need to answer!

Oh wow that is a lot of messages there how can you deal with that many messages on your private messages, yes I know what you mean but I always respond to mine and then delete them so that I get them out of my private message section I do not like to leave it with so many message there. I have already answered them so there are only a couple that I do leave there for future reference.

I had been wondering what to do with my private messages, so to play it safe, I kept them. It had occured to me that there may be some info in them that I may need to refer to at some later stage. But it is going to be a nuisance keeping too many, & at some point I imagine that I will delete them.

I only have 8 messages so I haven't deleted them. I have had them for some time now. I will delete them now since I have no use for them anymore.

I hate for my inbox to get cluttered so I automatically delete those messages which I don't consider important after reading it. For those that I consider really important though, I try to keep them for as long as possible. I try to limit my messages to just 100 because I hate overcrowding my myLot inbox with messages. Fortunately for me, I don't get that much messages in myLot so I haven't deleted any of my messages yet. LOL!

I'm new and don't have any PMs. Usually I save them, unless my inbox gets full or I know that they're useless.

I dont even usually read them because its always someone with some new site that really pays and they all turn out to be a big waste of time with the exeption of maybe 3 or 4.

I delete most of them I feel like it is using up to much space here. If I think I might want to go back to one tho I keep it that way not much space used good luck on what ever you do

I save a couple of my messages if they are important or have something in them that i know one day i will need or want to look back at. I'm like you, i save and save, but there comes a point that you just go holly crap, look what i've saved, this is crazy. I found myself saving little pin boxes and things like that, empty coffee cans, bags from the grocery store (I had my whole pantry filled with them at one time) and so much more, i realized that what was once a good idea, got out of hand. So i started throwing things out, little by little, because i kept thinking of reasons i may need them, but now, i only have a few boxes of crap I'll probly never need but the possibility is there, and that's the way it is in my home. Now on my computer, every blog i write, every conversation i have, their all saved, because their important to me, i may need them, i may not, but even if i don't, it's nice to look back at those fun times and see how great things are. I have about 40 some messages here in MyLot that i haven't deleted, but it's because they mean something to me, or are just important for future reference, So in a lot of ways, I'm a saver, and a lot of these things will be saved forever.

You know faith, your topic is timely with what I was planning a few days ago. When I was still a newbie here, I had sent out a few private messages to those who requested to be on my list of friends. I simply thank them for choosing to be my friends. Guess what??? nobody replied back. Since then, I stop sending one. I stop trying to be too friendly with anyone. I always replied back when I received private messages. Its a way for them to know that I received and acknowledged their messages. I never deleted any single one of my messages yet. But I will delete the earliest one some about 3 months ago and no replies. I will not delete the one coming from few chosen friends. I like to keep a record of all our conversations and I guess, you can call me a sentimentalist, but I considered it a treasure to me. :)

I think you should remove the old messages. Lets say the messages that are about general subjects/talkings and that are older than 3 months. I am not sure if this is true, but I always feel that as if I should had a lot of private messages here I could take too much server space from Mylot. It must be saved somewhere on it. It isnt saved on your pc its still here on the server. So to keep the server running as smoothly as possible and give everyone a change to make a good way of earning some money here without having times and times to waite for a discussion/answer to be posted here, I would delete the old messages. Just out of my social behavior.

I think I am too new to answer this one. I already have a few Private messages. But, I cannot figure out how to delete them. Do the Private Messages get deleted off automatically after a period of time. How do you save these messages. Sorry that I am not able to contribute to your discussion and am asking you my own questions......