Where are you, my friends?
By chrislotz
@chrislotz (8137)
Canada
December 19, 2007 10:33am CST
I have a list of 65 friends and I used to get about 100 emails a day from them all. The last week I'm lucky to get half that. Now today, I only have 22 emails sent to me and most of those were from people responding to my discussions. I only got 6 emails that my friends started discussions. And of those 6 I could only respond to 4 of them. So what I want to know is, where are my friends discussions? Why are they not starting any? Why are they not respoding to mine? Where are my friends? Do I need to add more friends? What would you do?
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9 responses
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
19 Dec 07
I find it hard to start discussions. Yes look what happened to me when I finally got an interesting one, I got attacked and went from an eight to a six so what I did was I took off the notification of responses to email and now I have to select from the left side. So I am wary about starting any discussions. Also I have good ideas, but when I get on the computer they fly out the window.
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@peanutjar (5198)
• Canada
19 Dec 07
Hi suspenseful,i feel exactly the same as you for being selective of what we respond to,for the "deletion" button or negative mark is always hanging above us,making us wary of respondin oe starting a discussion.
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@marinarovi (1318)
• Argentina
20 Dec 07
Hi Chrislotz,
I'm not writing any discussions right now... not inspired, I guess...
I'm working too much, I'm having dinner with friends almost every night, you know, last of the year, different friends, etc, tomorrow evening I have a cocktail party with my coworkers, and then on friday I have dinner party with my highschool friends (ten years no notice of them, hehe), kind of a reunion, and then on saturday I have to dance (twice)... And I have scheduled sunday for sleeping ,hahaha
Don't add more friends, keep the good ones!!
LOL!
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
19 Dec 07
It's only a week to Christmas my friend, everyone is out, busy and doing shopping, if I remember right, the same thing happened around this time last year, it went slow and very quiet! Probably will do so until the New Year! So it's to be expected, it's not you! It's just there is a bit of Marie Celeste on Mylot! Hopefully come January it'll pick up again and you'll be inundated with discussions to reply to!
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@cheenlly (3476)
• Philippines
20 Dec 07
before i used to have a lot of emails from my friends, in fact in just one friend only i used to have at least 10 messages and i have 500 plus friends. I turn notification off as it really fulls my yahoo mail but when i was not active here suddenly my notification stop sending messages. BUt when i am back now im glad it also back to normal though i turn off some of them as my yahoo cant accommodate all besides i can directly answer and see them on mylot on the discussion my friends started. Sometimes we need to choose certain topic that we can only relate , we cant really respond to all at one time but that doesn't mean we forget them. maybe your friends are just busy for the moment with their daily work or perhaps they are burn out and took some time off and also Christmas is coming and im sure all people are busy for now preparing. Dont worry friend they are just around, just continue responding and have fun. Have a nice day!
@Sissygrl (10912)
• Canada
19 Dec 07
Hey there, i am not on your friends list i dont think, but its possible that some of your friends no longer use mylot, or maybe they just dont come online as much anymore. Some people get burned out and stop using the site. I have just came back from about a years break :0)
You should always be adding new friends, because new friends, mean new interests and new interests means you wont get bored as quick :)
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@girlgonefishing (2174)
• United States
19 Dec 07
It's like when you were little and your friends moved away isn't it?!? I have the same problem sometimes. I get a ton of emails from maybe 4 friends who start 50 discussions and then nothing hardly at all. Not all of my friends reply to my discussions but, it doesn't really bother me. I enjoy replying to theirs. Actually, I'm so busy replying to theirs that I don't have time to make my own!
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@vikashsabharwal (552)
• India
19 Dec 07
Don't worry Chrislotz, I was out of town and now I am back and I suppose i would make some difference in yor day.
@glitzypurple (1477)
• Philippines
20 Dec 07
Maybe busy for the holidays... anyway, merry xmas!! :) I have a hard time starting a new discussion too. I enjoy replying to discussions more than starting them. :)
@asim_1984 (14)
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20 Dec 07
hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
in my opinion a friend inneed is a friend indeed. i have approx infinite friends. and all of them are not less worthy than a pearl. they hep me in all phase of my life.