have you ever ignored a friend"s discussion here on mylot?
By BYOLA2871
@BYOLA2871 (4371)
South Africa
May 13, 2008 3:46pm CST
I dont know maybe am being unnecesarily sentimental or something,but i have discovered some of u smy friends on my list dont respond to my posts but i try my best to respond to their post,sometimes i send them messages to know why they have not been active,so i was about to do an edit of my friend list again so i can only have active ones,i dont know why they do this anyway ,but do you have any reasons why you will not respond to your friend"s posting?
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19 responses
@BYOLA2871 (4371)
• South Africa
13 May 08
yes i sometimes do that myself if i dont have much time but i make a point of duty to come back and respond to them as soon as am free and sometimes i just decide to post and not do any responses especially in the morning then i come back in the evening for a response galore.
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@BUSSY1979 (1283)
• United States
13 May 08
no, I wouldn't ignore my friends' discussions. I try to answer to them the best that I can, and if they are in my interest.
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@BYOLA2871 (4371)
• South Africa
13 May 08
yes i do respond regularly and when it wait it is for me to give a good answer
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@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
13 May 08
Yes, I have. It's hard to keep up with all of my friends' discussions and still have time to join the rest of the mylot population. I don't respond to friends solely because they are my friend. I respond to discussions only if I have something to say. Even though they are my friends we still have many differences and sometimes I just can't relate to what they're saying.
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@CheshireKat (564)
• United States
13 May 08
I don't know that I really -ignore- friends' discussions, for me it's more like if I'm busy and just hop on mylot for a few moments, [usually later in the day/in the evening] and when I get on their discussions have plenty of responses (twenty or more) or if their discussions are things that really don't apply to me or that I don't have an opinion about, I won't respond.
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@BYOLA2871 (4371)
• South Africa
13 May 08
ok i do that too but most times if what they are talking about is out of my scope i just tell them am sorry i am not really at home with that topic
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
13 May 08
Ialways try my best to respond to all my friends
discussions but sometimes perhaps I have missed
one but surelywas not done intentionally. I
sometimes go backover my friends discussions to
be extra sure I have responded to them. I don't
know why someone would deliberately not
respond to yuour discssions.
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@roxanne271 (2034)
• Trinidad And Tobago
13 May 08
Hi byola
I don't actually "ignore" my friends discussions. I actually look at them, read them and if I have nothing to contribute to it I just move on.
Sometimes when the above is the case a person many feel like you are ignoring them, which isn't a nice feeling. But I don't think you should post just for posting sake or just because you are a friend. I mean what are you gonna say. "Hey I'm just posting cause you are my friend but I have nothing to really add to this discussion"...I wouldn't do so.
On that note. I usually go through the list of discussions my friends started and look to see which I have missed and stuff and just answer if I can contribute something or if it's interesting.
have a good one
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@BYOLA2871 (4371)
• South Africa
13 May 08
i remember i gota notification from mylot of a friend"s post and i opened it adn waht ?it was almost 2 pages i was almost dozing reading and i didnt get the point when i was halfway through,i had to abandon it and it took me the next one week to get back to it and respond to it.
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@roxanne271 (2034)
• Trinidad And Tobago
13 May 08
OMG, wow. 2 pages?! Sorry to say it but I would have dozed off too!
I actually do that sometimes when I read a message. I just leave it and then get back to it later
I actually do that sometimes when I read a message. I just leave it and then get back to it later1 person likes this
@raijin (10345)
• Philippines
14 May 08
I don't really worry about them not responding to my own discussions, I know that most of them have no exact knowledge on the topics I post and that some of them are not that active anymore. I also often start my own, but whenever I start one, I must be sure that it's interesting for other members and not only to my friends.
I am the same as them as well, I won't respond to all of their discussions especially when I am not really aware of what the discussion is all about and that I am not always here actively posting.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
14 May 08
I have not ignored any of my friends discussions. I have passed a few of them up though because I just did not have anything to say or could not relate to it. I have several pages of my friends discussions to respond to right now. I am behind but trying to catch up. I never ignore my friends here though.
@checapricorn (16060)
• United States
14 May 08
I am only responding when I know the topic, since, most of the topics are not within my interest and can't force my mind to get anything phrases to type! Second reason, I have this very slow connection this time that made me post like 10 in an hour! So annoying, plus my time is limited but I am trying to catch up so to respond to all the notifications in my email!
@nengs10 (3180)
• Philippines
14 May 08
I don't really ignore them. Actually, upon logging in here, I immediately check all my friends' discussions right away and I'll see if I can answer some of them. As much as I wanted to answer them all, I just can't relate and find other discussions hard to respond to. I love my friends here though.
@phillygirl606 (1112)
• United States
14 May 08
I would not call it ignoring, but I find that if I have nothing interesting to add to the conversation I tend not to respond. I do not want to respond for the sake of responding and make an unmeaningful response. I do try to answer at least one topic from each of the people on my friends though when I get on here.
@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
14 May 08
I don't specifically "not" respond to my friend's discussions. I don't have my friends set up to get automatic notifications when they start a discussion. Mostly because I get a ton of myLot notifications already when I get responses either to my discussions or to responses from me in other discussions. So, here is how I pick what to respond to, I use my sorties. I use the sorties on my interests and the sortie showing my friend's discussions. So, I pick and choose what I want to respond to that way. And, occasionally that means I miss some of my friend's discussions. Other times, something they started either leaves me having nothing to add to the discussion or, doesn't interest me at all. I don't want to go into a discussion from one of my friends simply to say something of no substance just to make sure they know I care. Does that make sense? So, as long as I have something to say...something with substance...I will respond.
Also, not all of my friends respond to my discussions and, I don't get mad at them for that. I understand that their involvement here is probably as busy as mine and, that means that I might fall by the waist side and, that is OK. I don't expect everyone on my list to pay attention to me all the time. You simply can't. This site is always so busy. And, if you ignore other discussions because they aren't on your friends list and you don't have time to respond to anything else because you spend all of your time responding to your friend's discussions, you risk not getting to know other people here as well.
So, I try to spread my time evenly but, I think I miss most of the time. I don't do it to begrudge anyone and, I hope that all of my friends in my friends list know me well enough to know that I am not picking some friends and ignoring them on purpose.
I value all of my friends here. Whether I always show it, or rarely show it! I really do try! But, there are only so many hours in a day!
@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
14 May 08
I don't specifically "not" respond to my friend's discussions. I don't have my friends set up to get automatic notifications when they start a discussion. Mostly because I get a ton of myLot notifications already when I get responses either to my discussions or to responses from me in other discussions. So, here is how I pick what to respond to, I use my sorties. I use the sorties on my interests and the sortie showing my friend's discussions. So, I pick and choose what I want to respond to that way. And, occasionally that means I miss some of my friend's discussions. Other times, something they started either leaves me having nothing to add to the discussion or, doesn't interest me at all. I don't want to go into a discussion from one of my friends simply to say something of no substance just to make sure they know I care. Does that make sense? So, as long as I have something to say...something with substance...I will respond.
Also, not all of my friends respond to my discussions and, I don't get mad at them for that. I understand that their involvement here is probably as busy as mine and, that means that I might fall by the waist side and, that is OK. I don't expect everyone on my list to pay attention to me all the time. You simply can't. This site is always so busy. And, if you ignore other discussions because they aren't on your friends list and you don't have time to respond to anything else because you spend all of your time responding to your friend's discussions, you risk not getting to know other people here as well.
So, I try to spread my time evenly but, I think I miss most of the time. I don't do it to begrudge anyone and, I hope that all of my friends in my friends list know me well enough to know that I am not picking some friends and ignoring them on purpose.
I value all of my friends here. Whether I always show it, or rarely show it! I really do try! But, there are only so many hours in a day!
@chrissieatu (1033)
• China
15 May 08
Hey byola. I finally find your discussion again. Last night the network was really bad for me to post a response.
As to me, I try to respond to my friends' discussion, but not all of them. I only choose those I fell like having something to say. I hope I didn't let you down. Be joyful

@lingli_78 (12821)
• Australia
14 May 08
well, i myself also don't respond to all my friends' discussions here... it is simply because they are too much... i just can't handle all of them... but i try my best to respond to my friends' discussions when i have the time... my reason for not responding is pretty simple... i just don't have enough time here as i am also working full time...
@olivemai (4738)
• United States
13 May 08
I do skip certain discussions! If I cannot think of anything to say, or responding is taking me longer, cannot think whatever, then I will skip the discussion until I have more time! I did not think that we had to respond to every discussion our friends start! I have a lot of friends at myLot now, and I cannot answer every discussion! I want to participate as quickly and as often as possible, so I can get some earnings but sometimes I cannot think of any good answer and to answer with just any words at all, will not make sense to me!
@cream97 (29085)
• United States
14 May 08
Yes, but I know someone in particular, but I am not calling any names. It makes me feel bad when this person does this. It is like they don't care for me... It is like they don't like me, but they never have met me. I thought that I was the only person experiencing this on myLot. I guess I was wrong. Since you have brought it up, I feel better just knowing that I am not the only one who feels this way.


















