Friends that don't respond

@KissThis (3003)
United States
April 18, 2007 8:14am CST
I saw a discussion that brought a question to my mind. If you have some people on your friends list that don't respond to the discussions you post do you delete them? Do you send them a message to ask why? How do you handle this situation?
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22 responses
• Philippines
18 Apr 07
Hi Kissthis! I think you got only some of my views from my discussion. It was just so sudden, in a short period of 7 days of not being able to respond to "its" post. And I got deleted. So I didn't had the chance to prove myself as a friend to that user. But as many of my friends said and adviced me, I do understand now, if I didn't fit into "its" logarithm of friends. I accept it full heartedly. My point of my discussion, is we should give our "friends" the time to respond too. We all have a life outside of Mylot. And I just hope, some took this in great consideration. If not, just go ahead.., no one can stop anyone from deleting persons in their friends list. So be it! That's Mylot multifaceted life and free will. And my post wasn't meant to argue with the said user. If you have notice I use "it" to protect "its" gender. So no heartfeeling here. And to add, this is the first time it happened to me. Hope you understand me. Thank you Kissthis! And have a great Mylotting day!! (^^,)
@KissThis (3003)
• United States
18 Apr 07
Your discussion got me to thinkig is all I was going for. I never consider dropping people off of my friends list even though most of the people on there have never responded to anything I have posted. I consider my friends list people that I have things in common with that I would normally respond to their discussions.
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• Philippines
19 Apr 07
Thank you Kissthis. If I may, I apologize if I sounded upset but it was more because of the incident and nothing personal to you ha. I'm flattered to hear that my discussion made you think about friends, responses, etc...And from your clea response to me, I felt you have a big heart too who cherished and valued friendship. I hope we could be friends and have the chance to know more of each other. Keep up your good deeds! More blessings! (^^,) Sincerely, ~~Aphroditei~~
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@ladyljs (1303)
• United States
19 Apr 07
I have found myself with more friends than I am able to respond too! What makes it extra hard, is that I try to respond to every post on my questions and this is becoming an ominous task! So, if I failed to respond to a question, I am sincerely sorry...I promise that I will get around to you sometime..OK?
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@KissThis (3003)
• United States
19 Apr 07
I was talking to anyone personally. I had seen a post that made me wonder if I was using my friends list the wrong way. I use my friends list as a way to keep track of the people I like to respond to.
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@bonbon664 (3466)
• Canada
21 Apr 07
I don't delete them. I figure they're either busy, or have signed up, and haven't come back. If it's been a long time since they haven't had any activity, then maybe I'll delete them. But, as I see it, you can never have too many friends on here.
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@Jennifer21 (2476)
• United States
18 Apr 07
Personally, if you want to hear my point of view, I don't give a sh*t. I was raised NOT to care what others think of you. So what if I have a hundred friends. I don't need to respond to them all. If they have a problem with it, then they can go ahead and delete me from there friends list. Why fight over somthing petty when we can just all get along and not worry about who answer's whos dicussions. That is my point of view. You and others may have a different one, but oh well. And I bet I will lose a lot of friends over this post, too bad.
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• United States
18 Apr 07
And I wasn't trying to be rude either, I was just saying that some people make such a big deal about it, and that we should not worry about it.
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@mom_of_2 (398)
• Canada
19 Apr 07
Hi kissThis, I haven't figured that out myself! Only about half my friends reply to my discussions but I never say anything because I assume its the topics I choose for one and for another I don't post to many discussions as I don't have alot of time to spend on Mylot. If I was considering deleting anyone I would send them a message first. I would feel better if someone wanted to delete me if they let me know first. Maybe some people have a valid reason for not replying to your discussions.
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@KissThis (3003)
• United States
19 Apr 07
Thats what I was thinking. There might be a reason for why their not responding and that one should give the person not responding a chance to explain. Like I have been saying all along the people that are on my friends list is the people who I feel are the ones I have an easy time responding to. I don't respond to all their discussions but I try to respond to most.
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@sacmom (14192)
• United States
19 Apr 07
No, I don't delete them or send them an email. If my friends on here want to respond to my discussions then fine, and if not that is fine too. I certainly won't hold a grudge if my friends don't respond to my discussions. I do however like checking the discussions my friends started as I may want to respond to them. I certainly hope my friends wouldn't delete me off their list if I don't respond to their discussion as sometimes I may only get to read it and not reply as I get caught up with other things like my family life.
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@KissThis (3003)
• United States
19 Apr 07
I agree with you. I basicly use my friends list as a way to keep trsck of people I like to respond to because I can relate to their discussions.
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@18101989 (700)
• India
24 Apr 07
well i have many a friends that do not respond but i don't like to delete them because i have not approved them so that i can get more responses but i allow them to be my friend so that i can respond to there discussion and i can get more types of discussion to see and respond to them so that i can earn because what i found here is that when you respond you earn more than when you start a topic because you can respond a discussion to any extent but you can't receive replies to a very good limit so i do not start discussion which i did when i was new now my priority is to answer more and upload photo more so that i can earn more as uploading photo give 1 cent and per hit give one cent extra what about you what do you do with your friends that do not respond to you discussion for a long time
@KissThis (3003)
• United States
24 Apr 07
Wow thanks for responding you answered alot of questions that I had been asking myself.
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@evlo173 (434)
• United States
18 Apr 07
I don't delete friends because they didn't respond. Maybe they are busy or they can't answer the discussion I started.Maybe they'll answer the next discussion i'll start.
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@bobbyjoe143 (1287)
18 Apr 07
no, i haven't deleted people just for not replying to my topics, there are so many things that you can reply to here on mylot, and if i was to respond to all the topics that i like the look of, plus at least one of every friends topics, i don't think i would spend a moment of my day away from the pc lol! i have however deleted 2 people from my friends list because they cold called me! they only wanted me added to their friends lists so that they could give me their referal codes for other money making websites! so i replied with a no thank you and deleted them.
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@neenasatine (2841)
• Philippines
18 Apr 07
hello kiss this... actually i really dont mind whether my friends are responding to my discussions or not. me too. i'm having a hard time responding to their discussions, it's either i really dont know the answer or they are too many of them..i have a lots of friends and it will take me a lot of time just to respond to all of their discussions
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• United States
26 Apr 07
I wouldn't delete them because the discussion that you started might not be their cup of tea so to speak. Just because I don't respond to every discussion doesn't mean that I won't respond later to something else you are discussing.
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@KissThis (3003)
• United States
27 Apr 07
I totally agree with you. There are a few discussions that have been started that I just don't have something to add to at times
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@tinamwhite (3252)
• United States
21 Apr 07
Hiya, KissThis, While i can understand why it would upset you when your friends do not respond to your discussions... For me, there are days when I have more time than other days to spend on myLot. I always begin with reading responses to the few discussions that I have started and answer those responses, then I look at the discussions that my friends have started...it is very easy to get into reading not only the beginning discussion but also the responses......sometimes I just have nothing to add and sometimes the topic holds no interest to me.....however when I do respond to a discussion I always put "all of me" into that response. If I still am here after reading my friends discussions and responding to the ones that I think I can add something to then I read the new discussions.... I do not think that I would delete my friends....as like you, these are people that I think I have things in common with......and I understand how life can be ...so I always give them the benefit of the doubt and hope that they can catch my next discussion... Blessed be, my friend.
@KissThis (3003)
• United States
21 Apr 07
Thanks for responding, Tina.
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@uiwwitch (892)
• United States
22 Apr 07
at this point, I don't really have anything against my friends who do not reply to my post. I do not consider responding to me as their duty and if they don't have any interest in what I have posted, I certainly do not take it against them. My referral has not even responded to any one of my discussion. But it's no big deal for me. I am enjoying myself too much and so far am able to find enough topics to respond to and some who respond to me as well.
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@KissThis (3003)
• United States
23 Apr 07
I am like you in a way. I don't really mind if my friends don't respond. I have several people on my friends list because I can almost always post on any discussion that they start. Which makes mylot more enjoyable for me because I don't have to search for discaussion to respond to.
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@7mfmns (103)
• United States
22 Apr 07
i don't know if i'll drop anybody off if they don't respond to my discussion. i'm just basically starting and i haven't post a lot yet. some of my new friends have been around long and have started so many discussions already that will be too hard for me to catch up. i am only able to open my computer when i'm home AND when my son is sleeping. i don't think we need to answer to ALL discussions they started, only if you have something to say or contribute to the topic . on my part though i will try to post something in answer but it may take a little while when i have the opportunity or free time to do it.
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@KissThis (3003)
• United States
22 Apr 07
I can complete understand what you are saying. I have three young children. When they are home and awake I am usually doing something with them or fot them. Thanks
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@magica (3707)
• Bulgaria
5 May 07
None of them, KissThis:-) Everybody is free to reply or not to my discussions. And it`s the same for me. All the obligations kill the pleasure. I can delete only people who are inactive for mounths or confront me, try to destroy my discussion or spam my mailbox with nonsenses. But i havent met cases like this yet.
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@kylanie (1205)
• United States
24 Apr 07
No because people have different things that they talk about and different ways of thinking some thing that interest one person may not interest another person.
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• United States
24 Apr 07
I usually check to see if they are still here and active, I only delete them if they aren't active. Other wise I just leave it alone , they may have too many friends and just haven't gotten around to mine, or couldn't relate to my topic.
@Augustta (1850)
• Poland
4 May 07
I don't delete any friend list. Is alright i saw many who is not active,at least not at my post,but i guess maybe they don't like my topic..this can be a resonable excuse... But i don't send message because this...i am sure who is in my list later or sooner will share his/her friendship in a way... augusta
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@feliniti (875)
24 Apr 07
I don't think I would delete someone if they didn't respond. Sometimes people are busy. Sometimes they might have different interests. So I wouldn't just delete them. They'll come around. :)
@KissThis (3003)
• United States
24 Apr 07
I totally agree. Thanks for responding.
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@castleghost (1304)
• United States
5 May 07
If I add someone to my friends list I wouldn't be delete them. I might not have posted a dicsussion that the person felt they could respond to. Or they could have been busy and not had a chance to respond. The people on my friends list are there because I felt I would be able to respond to their discussions.
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