Friends on Mylot

Hey Sandra I'm with you on this one. Usually before I accept a request I take a look at the number of discussions they've participated in. If it's less than a 100 I straight away decline the request because the majority of these referral chasers are not active participants. If they are above a 100 I look at their profile to see if there's something interesting about them. If not I decline but most times I accept.

I am very selective with who I accept on the friends reuest page. I have to make sure that they have common interests as me, and if I don't recognize them right off, I leave it pending until I see what they offer MyLot. I get overloaded with requests from people who really have nothing to say in the forums, and I actually deny a lot of requests because of it. I like active participants to be on my page-ones who will post topics that I will respond to, and ones who will participate in mine as well.

I just finished cleaning-up my list. Most of them are no longer active or they were not seen in any of my discussions. I also deleted from the list who I think had been there just for the said making extra money ventures of their own.

I always accept friends' invitations here at mylot. I feel so blessed to be invited by a mylotter to be his/her friend and I love to have many friends here. Aside from learning from their experiences, you will also get to share your experiences with them.

I don’t think you are being cynical at all and from experience I can say that people do request you as a friend purely to send you sign up messages or spam as it should be known. Like yourself when someone sends me a friend request I always check their profile out and see what they are into and whether or not they have actually replied to an of my discussions or responded to other discussions. Anyone I decide is going to spam me I actually leave as an unanswered request as it means they won’t be able to bug me with another friend’s request. That does mean I have a few people sitting there permanently as pending but would rather this than repeated friend requests. Likewise I have met some great people on here via the friends system but feel that some members see myLot as purely a marketing tool for sending out sign up requests.

Hi Sandra, how can I have missed this discussion before when I've been stalking you I'm due another clean out now, get rid of the one liners and the ones who I have no contact with. Slowly but surely the friends list is growing into people I want to interact with and as you say it is Mylots best feature. Anyone after money,spams whatever just go in the bin unless they refuse to, then they just hang around putrifying on the list. I've quite a few pending now but looking at the numbers it's too early to decide if we'll hit ito off.