How Long Should A Person Be Inactive Before We Delete Them From Our Friends List

I haven't deleted anyone as a friend. I think if people are inactive it's because they lead busy lives. People may leave for days or weeks and come back to resume posting on Mylot.

Good idea. I haven't seen some of mine ever in mylot. I mean some of them I'm not sure if they even post.

I generally delete anyone who has not logged in for at least a month. If they come back, they can always request to be friends again, but usually if someone is away for that long, I doubt they're coming back.

I never have taken anyone off my friends list. I really dont think that I will. Thats just my preferance..and have a great evening......

I have had quite a few friends who are like that. One of them that I thought about deleting, but didn't, is back after two months. I have deleted 3 though that have not been active in three months. I think three months is being optimistic. Usually only a really busy schedule or an illness would keep someone from MyLot for that long of a time. But try not to feel bad about it. They can always request you for a friend again, or you vice versa. And those three friends I deleted? They still aren't back, so I don't feel bad. I want to make sure to devote my attention to the people still responding and being active.

hi there, Rozie 37, my friend. I am a newcomer to this site and my friends are not so many yet. However, I try to make friends with everybody here at Mylot, and I also give importance to those who have accepted me as one of their friends. Before I post some discussions, I make it a point to look at " discussions my friends started " and responds to their posts that I have something to share about.

I don't want to be rude either but tonight I have to delete 14 friends (pending) because I am very, very busy taking care of my ailing mother, my stroke victim cousin and 30 cats and barely have any time to even be on the computer and next week I will have to take care of my sister's autistic 6 yr. old grandson because they are going away on a trip! I know the people I will be deleting are sweet people but for now, I can't handle anything else. Some of them have been pending for over 2 weeks now and I just want to let them know it is nothing against them, but I must delete them and hope they'll understand.

This is realy something i need to do. I have been here 7 months now and although i turn down most of my friends requests i have still managed to get over 200 people on my list. The majority of them are no longer active, i think ill give them a year and then delete those who havent been here for a long time blessed be

I haven't deleted anyone off my list and would only do so if they were abusive or rude. The way I see it, people have their own lives offline and this could affect how often they post so I wouldn't want to close the door on anyone if they haven't been active for a while!

I think that is a matter of personal preference, i would think though that people can get sick, or have surgery and not be active for 6 or more weeks as a result. I had surgery where i had double vision for at least weeks after it, I would think over 2 or 3 months, if a person does not log on I would consider dropping them. I will drop people from friends if I see questionable posts, things that I feel are not appropriate for this site, but they would have to be gone over 3 months before I would drop them.

It amazes me that they ask to be put on my list because they don't post to any of my discussions. I don't expect them to post to all of my discussions but at least post to a few in a reasonable amount of days. It makes me wonder why they even bother to request for me to put them on my friends list. I haven't deleted anyone yet. But I am thinking very heavily about doig it. Like you my time is valueable. This I don't consider rude what I consider rude when the people on your friends list do not ever respond to your discussions. That is what I call rude.

Hm, that is a good question. I guess it depends on your preference. I have never deleted anyone unless they were breaking the myLot rules. I just don't have too much time to research my friends now. Pablo

I just turn off their notify button and leave their names on my list. I have a few that have not been active for quite sometime and so I wasn't sure whether I should delete them or not, so I decided to just turn the notify button off. I know it takes up a lot of space in your friends list but I didn't want to offend anyone by deleting them.

That is very interesting to me. I never thought about if people on my friend list are active or not. Does it hurt me if they stay there? What is the purpose to delete them?