Do you sometimes follow your Mylot friends around?
By katerina
@thea09 (18305)
Greece
August 6, 2009 4:51am CST
Hi all, I have some people I relate to on here with really well and love to see them pop into my discussions and I pop into theirs. When I can't find anything to respond to I go to their profiles and see what they've been responding to as I know they'll oftentimes have spotted a good topic. Last night I was suprised to see that one of them had been doing it to me too which amused me hugely. I do the same when I put new friends on, if I think we're going to hit it off I have a look at what they've started previously and pop in and respond and sometimes that leads to other great people popping in and out too. Do you find that likeminded people provide the best bit of Mylotting and do you ever follow them around too?
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@akuler (3531)
• Malaysia
6 Aug 09
Hi thea,
I do it too. It is easy to follow your friends discussion then try to look a new one. I always try to look at the "friends started" tab to give a responses my friends raise. And the "responded" tab to continue the discussion. It is good to get response and/or comment from your friends. And its become fun if that discussion become longer and longer. Even it is sometimes out off topics.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Hi Akuler, glad to hear I'm not the only stalker around, I often find the friends started tab is overloaded a bit by some people posting ten at a time, there's a couple there I need to delete as they are yet to respond to any of mine so it's a bit onesided. I don't have any friends though that don't comment back, except for the ones that don't comment at all.
You've been on my list for ages and we've crossed but I think you would concur that it's only in this last week we've been encountering each other much more.
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@akuler (3531)
• Malaysia
6 Aug 09
They must be a pretenders. And all the want is to get responses and make some cents from it. It is everything about money. It is all about business, nothing personal as the others said. But you can easily identify them if the discussion going deeper and deeper. The pretender will find it hard to comment on certain thing that needs experience on it.
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@THEcreationist (837)
• India
6 Aug 09
Hi, friend.
Well, I have not been following any of my mylot friends till now but it is good idea from you and i think i should give it a try.
But, there are some mylotters in my friends list whom i really love to be there responding to my discussions and i also love to respond to theirs. In some particular interests, their discussions are worth responding and their responses are worth commenting.
By the way, you are one of them. Happy Mylotting!!
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Oh thanks for that my friend. I have to ask if your age is true though, you come across in your discussions as either amazingly mature for your young age or as a wise man. I don't think stalking was my idea though at all, it seems like others have been up to it for quite some time.
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@THEcreationist (837)
• India
6 Aug 09
Thanks friend. Well, maturity comes with the situations one has faced and thought upon, not with the age.
By the way, that`s my true age and i am going to be 19 this 21st of August.
Happy Mylotting!!
not with the age.
By the way, that`s my true age and i am going to be 19 this 21st of August.
Happy Mylotting!!1 person likes this
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
6 Aug 09
There is nothing wrong w/that. Sometimes i will see where a friend has started a discussion & i wasn't notified so i will answer them. I get quite afew notifications so don't have to go looking much.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
6 Aug 09
i DON'T USUALLY do that. It keeps me busy just keeping up w/mt notifications most of the time.
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Hi Jo, I was speaking about going further than the notifications and actually see what certain people have been responding to themselves as some of them have the knack of sniffing out a good one that I've missed. It's now appearing to be quite a common practice with us all stalking each other.
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@thedailyclick (3017)
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6 Aug 09
Be honest Thea, you just can't help stalking me. 
What I have found is that if I tend to just check over my interests I often get bored of seeing very similar discussion so end up profile surfing looking for good discussion from those who I often respond to as usually it means we are like minded.
So for example I could go to your profile and find a discussion you've responded to which I hadn't spotted but interests me. So after responding to that one I will find an interesting response from there and go and surf the profile of that member to see if they have responded to anything else which interests me. I've found by doing this I often discover more interesting discussions and also widen my interests.
What I have found is that if I tend to just check over my interests I often get bored of seeing very similar discussion so end up profile surfing looking for good discussion from those who I often respond to as usually it means we are like minded.
So for example I could go to your profile and find a discussion you've responded to which I hadn't spotted but interests me. So after responding to that one I will find an interesting response from there and go and surf the profile of that member to see if they have responded to anything else which interests me. I've found by doing this I often discover more interesting discussions and also widen my interests.2 people like this
@thedailyclick (3017)
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6 Aug 09
Me a stalker
..... never
I did wonder if it was my rummaging around in your profile which caused this discussion and I am glad that it caused your amusement when you discovered my stalking.
I really should start putting in friend requests when I do find good discussions, I always forget to do it.
..... never
I did wonder if it was my rummaging around in your profile which caused this discussion and I am glad that it caused your amusement when you discovered my stalking.
I really should start putting in friend requests when I do find good discussions, I always forget to do it.1 person likes this
@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Yep, I love to stalk my friends.
I do it all the time!
I do it all the time!1 person likes this
@AngryKittyMSV (4317)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Yep, I stalk them, they stalk me, we're a stalking family...
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@skyhss (1142)
• United States
6 Aug 09
i pretty much only respond to friends discussions unless i find something that interests or amuses me so you could say i follow them (keeps me out of trouble). when i do venture out into the wide world of other discussions, i look for names that i recognize and respond to their discussions first (recognize your name from several friends discussions). i also have a, um, very close friend here who always finds good discussions so if he's not around, i check his profile for stuff to respond to.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Hello skyhss, not venturing outside the boundaries sounds like an interesting idea, you must have a good basis of friends to do that with. So it does sound like you are yet another stalker in your way, it's good that you have a friends profile you can check from, I've started to do it more often as otherwise there are just too many one liners out there with the same daily topic.
can ya post a Kenny Chesney link for me? 
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
6 Aug 09
You remind me of someone who has been stalking me and seems to only response to my discussions. When I checked his profile 99.9% of discussions he responded are from my discussions. I just can't figure out why he does that but he has the most brilliant and analytic views to my discussions that leaves me dumbfounded of what to say in my comments to his responses. Those who are worldly intelligent and literally good are a challenge to my shallow intellectual capacity but would try to think harder to make the interaction smooth. This is all what is needed here, for everyone to interact in a more fun way. I have no particular person to follow. All are treated equally as many of my friends are responsive and helpful.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Hi zandi, but preumably the person who is responding to all of your discussions is on your friends list so responding to your discussions isn't stalking at all. Of course if he isn't already on your list you should invite him as he sounds the sort of respondee you are looking for. I don't think it's a case of not treating people equally but if you find friends that are like minded to yourself it is a great bonus here on Mylot.
@myliezl0903 (2726)
• Philippines
7 Aug 09
depends on my mood ., but i just respond to discussion if i am interested to it .,
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Aug 09
Hi myliez, that's a nice ambiguous answer which tells us nothing. So maybe you stalk, maybe you don't, most on here have openly admitted to it which leads me to conclude that there is so much stalking going on that no one has actually got any time left to post anything. Certainly it would be unthinkable to respond to something which one had no interest in.
@animegirl334 (3263)
• United States
7 Aug 09
That does sound fun but I don't have any friends that I know so well as to play around with here but a few buddies joining each others discussions sounds great. Got to find me some close friends
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Aug 09
That's the key animegirl, be fussy with your friends and keep the good ones. If you hit it off with someone and have similar interests you'll be able to find lots of interesting discussions right up your own street when you stalk them and see what they are responding too, it's certainly easier to find interesting things that way. Hope you get some close friends soon.
@Bethany1202 (3431)
• United States
7 Aug 09
Yes I do that sometimes, especially when I am bored or cannot think of anything to write on my own, and don't see any discussions that are interesting me at the time...
Sometimes I will go to the "hot" discussions or those with "no responses" also when I am bored.
I wish I had some stalkers. UMM, I MEAN ... followers............ 
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
7 Aug 09
Hi Bethany, another stalker I see. I think this topic came to me when I decided to stalk someone I don't normally stalk, the other day. The first thing I noticed was that he was obviously stalking me so if I hadn't stalked him I would never have known that he was a stalker. I have now noticed since posting this that that stalking has now become much more apparent and they make no effort to cover their tracks. Good luck in having your own stalker soon.
@mermaidivy (15394)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I always like to check out what my friends start, if I find them interesting, I must respond to them! I like to receive their generous responses as well as giving me responses :-)
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Hi mermaidivy, checking out friends started does not make you a stalker like the majority on here who actively follow their friends around looking to poach onto the good discussions they might have found. I respond to you and you respond to me but you'll be relieved to hear I don't actually stalk you, the ones who I do know who they are and I've caught them stalking right back
@dlr297 (5409)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I do it all the time, it makes it easier to find some good discussions, especially if their are days when their is not much going on. and it makes it go a lot faster, and they are here different times of the day so you do not have to go looking through all the different discussions that are on different pages of the popular categories.
@Anora_Eldorath (6028)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Thea-
I have all of my current friends updates turned on so that each time they post a new topic I am notified. I am terribly behind on my writings and feel bad that I've friend's topics from a month ago still unanswered.
I feel that it is the unique part of Mylot to be able to be notified of your friend's topics and be able to engage them in discussion. I don't think it's done in an unfriendly manner. I've a few friends that come to discussions I post, and those I see quite frequently as we have the same interests. It's always nice to see their avatar pop up in a discussion.
Namaste-Anora
@Anora_Eldorath (6028)
• United States
26 Aug 09
I'm not sure I follow the "admitted to it" part, but I don't see answering friend's posts as "stalking" .I rather see it as a friend dropping in for a visit. Happy Mylotting. Namaste-Anora
.I rather see it as a friend dropping in for a visit. Happy Mylotting. Namaste-Anora@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Hi Anora_Eldorath, what a lovely name, it sounds as if rather uniquely you are not a stalker here, certainly everyone else has admitted to it. I only answer friends topics if they interest me but there's a few who make it easy every time. I agree it's nice when the same friendly avatars pop up and I'm choosy now who I accept because similar humour and interests keep it more interesting.
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@Iriene88 (5343)
• Malaysia
8 Aug 09
Dear thea09,
another new avatar :)
Oh yes, I do that too...first of all, I will go to
'my friends started' or directly go into profile.
Then just follow what my friends respond to, and comment
on each other..at time the topic deviate to other thing,
but it is really fun..
Thanks and all the best!
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
8 Aug 09
Hi Iriene, now I really would not have guessed that you were a stalker here, huge shock to me. Anyway join the crowd, it seems most of us are guilty of doing it. I caught Mike stalking me last night, I think he thought I wouldn't notice as my alerts were running late. It's a good way to find other people too who create interesting topics and avoids having to look through the one liners.
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@Iriene88 (5343)
• Malaysia
9 Aug 09
Dear thea09,
Great to hear from you again!
I do not always do that except when I get abit bored
on long hours at my PC. I only do that to those who
I am closed with..those bloggers from Malaysia via
Nuffnang. Only on topics we can relate to as Malaysian
eg. where to have those particular dishes, buffet or
perhaps on where can we get that Sale, or on Malaysian
stock market etc...it is quite interesting though..lol
Wow, there are some myLotters who follows you..that shows
you know where to get interesting topic of discussion,
it's a Compliments..it shows that you are good at discussions,
perhaps they like your views..keep it up...myLot will be more
active..
@minhminh0604 (342)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I do not have many friends in my list, so I do not stalk them.
Sometimes I search my favorite friends to look for their discussions.
That is pretty much it.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
6 Aug 09
Hi minhminh, it is refreshing to hear from someone who is not an actual stalker here, we must come across as a pretty sad lot. It's not as bad as it sounds though, we're really only looking for good discussions and presume our friends will have found them, the funny thing is to then find about four friends in a row all on the same discussion.
