I'm changing my tactics
By daeckardt
@daeckardt (6237)
United States
November 25, 2011 1:39pm CST
Hi everyone!
As some of you know, I have been way behind on responding to discussions. I had been going through old emails I had saved into my mylot folder and I was up to Oct 10 when I saw a discussion where one person said they had been doing this and then she started going through her friends lists and responding to any of their discussions that they hadn't already responded to. I tried that today with a couple of my friends so now I think i am caught up with them. At least I got through three pages and started finding discussions I had responded to already so I decided I was done with that friend. I will probably go through all of the people that I respond to frequently and do the rest by going through emails. I have really felt out of touch with people when I read their posts and wonder if the situation has changed since the time it had been posted. I think from now on what I will do is only save those that don't follow and look at those that I do have an interest in right away. That way maybe I can get caught up with those that I do follow the most. How do you do it?
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7 responses
@GardenGerty (157629)
• United States
25 Nov 11
That is pretty much how I do it. I do find a new situation for a friend, I may follow up and go back through to see the antecedent discussions
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
26 Nov 11
I guess that is the biggest reason I started doing it this way because I was tired of not knowing for sure what I had missed about situations people were posting about. Have a great weekend!!!
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
25 Nov 11
well, I do the most recent ones first and then if I see an interest I'm really interested in on the top of the page, I go to that... often they are started by one of my friends, but I respond then because I'm already there
I had one "friend" say they were quitting and deleting their account so I went in and deleted all the discussions they had started before that - why bother if they aren't going to respond?
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
26 Nov 11
I like to be up to date, but I also don't like to miss things that my friends do. I guess that is the biggest reason it bothers me to be behind in here. I hope that the way I'm doing it now will get me caught up much sooner. Have a great weekend!!!
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
28 Nov 11
For me it really depends. I would Love to have time to just go thru some of my friends I know respond back to me all the time, and respond back to at least one page of their discussions and then move on to the next person, etc. The biggest problem would be that would not give me time to stay caught up with others, etc. I have a lot of discussions I am behind in responding back too, including all the New discussions that I have started, but I am always responding back as I can.
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
1 Dec 11
I know how that goes. I haven't been in here in several days again because my niece is staying with me and most of the time I have to keep her occupied. I guess the best thing to do is to just respond when possible and don't worry about it. Have a great week!!!
@jpso138 (7851)
• Philippines
26 Nov 11
I am on an off here in mylot. When I have the chance to go online I usually check out if there are post that I can respond to. But the very first thing that I check out are those post that I have started so that I can respond right away. But it is not everyday that I can post sine I travel a lot and there are places where internet is so slow I can barely open mylot. So for those days that I have the time and have a good connection, then I try my best to cope up with the things I miss.
@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
26 Nov 11
It is great that you do that. I think the only reason I fell behind this time was because I had to take time off from doing "non-essential" activities (not related to school) and then I went out of town for two weeks. While I had internet while I was there, I had to spend most of my available internet time on doing homework and besides, the connection was really slow so I got frustrated doing anything. Thanks for the response. Have a great weekend!!!
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
25 Nov 11
I get up have my coffee with mylot. in my emails i begin to scan through. if a friend never comes to any of my discussions, i dont feel obligated unless its someone that has been gone a while and i dont know whats been going on with them. 
if one of my friends seem to pop up at all my discussions, i try to answer every one of theirs. but if a friend has like 5 to 10 discussoins a day, i just comment on a couple and delete the rest
sorry to say. i feel i can only do my best with what time i have. when i had surgery, it took a couple days to catch up. lol. sometimes late in the evening, i check back again. @daeckardt (6237)
• United States
26 Nov 11
One thing I like about gmail is that every message from the same person shows up in a single email. That means that if one person starts 10 discussions in one day it shows up as a single email. I do look at each message, but I don't necessarily answer each one. I only answer if it is something that is important to me. I think if I ever do get totally caught up that I will change it so that only those people who I know post decent discussions get sent to my email. I get tired of seeing the same short one line discussions that some of the people post. Have a great weekend!!!
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@fabsprecious (1565)
• United States
28 Nov 11
I know exactly what you mean, I haven't been responding to discussions either since the beginning of this month. Between school, work and my kids school work I don't have any free time like I used to before. Just today I started going through my old e-mails (saved) and responding to discussions which my friends had started and it seems like I haven't even gotten a quarter of it done. I never knew how far behind I could fall. But the sad part is after today I probably won't be logging on again for another week, because I start my chores all over again starting tomorrow. I am trying to get as much as I possibly can done tonight. Looks like it might be a long night!!!
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
28 Nov 11
You can only do what you can do. I think I will find the people who respond to me the most then I will look at their discussions. If it gets to a point where I can't keep track of them all then I will stop with that person. This would only apply to those people who start many discussions in a day. I also think that I won't be doing much for a few days so I can get my homework done. Have a great week!!!
@fabsprecious (1565)
• United States
29 Nov 11
Well I was able to get through a good amount of discussions the other night, and a bit today, that's why I actually got around to responding to your comment so soon, but like you said the rest of the week will probably be busy with my own homework and my kids as well.
Hope you have a great week as well!!!
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@sijabatnaburjut (2171)
• Indonesia
26 Nov 11
I have changed my tactic for about one week ago. I was used to stick on making new discussion each day and replying someone's discussion in the early morning. Now, I am currently making comment from the discussion friend started. Then afterwards, I went to my own discussion and hoped for the next morning I would have got any comment from them. I replied all comment in the evening time, because from the morning until afternoon I would very busy commenting back the post from my friend started and interest.
@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
26 Nov 11
That makes a lot of sense. When I have time, I post each day whether it be starting a new discussion or just responding to old ones. I just fell behind for a while because school and life got in the way. Now things seem to be in a little better order in my life so I should be able to get back into some kind of routine. Have a great weekend!!!
