Reciprocate responses

United States
January 18, 2007 2:38pm CST
I always try to respond them who give response to my discussions. When I get a response from someone, I chek their discussions and if I can find something interesting I respond. I think it is good if you can reciprocate the same. But most of the people don't do that. Even many friends don't give a response after I responding many times in their discussions.
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12 responses
@freesoul (3021)
• Egypt
12 Feb 07
Yes I do this all of the time and get nothing in return :( I even see people request my friendship without trying to post to any of my discussions.. I accept them and respond to many of their discussions day after day and still nothing from them :( .. Well, eventually i have to delete them.. a major clean up in my list is coming soon but of course you are one of my best friends :)
• United States
12 Feb 07
Thank you very much for considering me as one of your best friend:). I am also thinkng of cleaning my list.
@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
12 Feb 07
I wish that all people would do that - but I know of many that just come in here, start alot of discussions and leave and hope that alot responds to theirs and that they will make money that way, they donĀ“t even go ba ck and rate. I try to respond to many of my friends discussions even though it sometimes takes a while - I also always rate the people that replies to mine and usually comment on them as well.
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@edigital (2709)
• United States
12 Feb 07
I agree with you as I also respond to many discussions who are not my friend, but I do not get any response from them even except from my all friends. I think they are not checking their posts who response or not response for which they cannot understand that as a friend I responded to his/her posts. However, as friend we should response each others discussion if not what to do we are friends and I must respect my friends desire that is if he/she do not respond to my discussions seeing my posts, I have nothing to do only to wait and see as a consolation by way of thinking that once upon a time he/she will look on my posts and will respond.
@Eskimo (2315)
12 Feb 07
I try to do this as well, but it is not always possible, especially if you start a discussion which gets many replies, sometimes there is just not enough time to respond to everyone who replies to yours. I also find that many of my friends never respond to my discussions at all, I usually look at a selection of my friends discussions, then some of the people who have responded to theirs (especially if I see the same user on several different discussions), so I jump about quite a bit.
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@sechsey (1831)
• Canada
12 Feb 07
I alwasy try to go to my friends discussion first and see what I can contribute. But i really cant see all of my friends discussions all the time. Tendency is you only get to see recent update from your friends discussion so i cant always be updated to be able to at least reciprocate.:( Whenever i have enough time, i do go to some regular friends profile and start from there instead.
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@ash2_hot (224)
• India
12 Feb 07
Even I do the same. The first thing I do is go to discussions started by my friends and try to respond to as many as possible and to which I can. I do get replies in return. I dont respond to all but to those which I can respond in a good way and not just for the sake of response. Its fair on ur part to feel the way you do but might be they also think like me and respond to discussions in which they can really contribute and not just for the sake of it. I guess they would in time. So dont feel cheated or betrayed :-)
@Inklings (1255)
• United States
12 Feb 07
I try to do that, too. In the beginning, it was a lot easier -- the site has grown DRAMATICALLY and it is becoming harder to give everyone the attention that they deserve. I'll keep trying, though!
• United States
12 Feb 07
True Inklings, as the site is growing and also frind list is growing, it's little hard to give attention to every one. But atleast we can try our best.
@lvhughes (545)
• United States
19 Jan 07
i agree with you. and we all know that everyone had a opinion on everything good or bad, right or wrong.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
20 Jan 07
Yes I know they don't as many People think why bother I don't get paid there are a lot on here just for the money but there are also a lot of good ones on here that are not just here for the money and do reply back I have deleted quite a few Friends recently as they are not really Interrested just be careful who you accept
@wmg2006 (5381)
• United States
12 Feb 07
Yes this is what I do too. This allows me to have some discussions to respond too. I am hoping if I respond to them they will respond to mine. Some people are just pinging around looking for certain subjects to respond to. I like to support those that support me.
• United States
20 Jan 07
I try to do that as well. But i am finding i more and more difficult as the community grows and as i start posting more and more. But i think everyone should atleas try their best!
@adidas7878 (1891)
• United States
9 Feb 07
well i give all the people who responsed to my post a feedback, and i rate every single and i comment every single person rather they are on my friend list or not. i figure if they take the time to response to my posting i am sure i can find sometime atleast reponse back to them.