Is it just me, or

@megumiart (3771)
United States
July 22, 2009 4:19pm CST
Does it seem like there are less and less exciting discussions these days? I've been on mylot for about 1 year and 1/2. I think it seems like there are more less active people on recently. It used to take less than an hour to get responses to a discussion I started, or find new fun discussions I want to respond to, and now it takes so long I usually just wait until to next day to find responses or find discussions. And even at that, sometimes there's still nothing new. One of my fav topics is "Watching Movies" - it seems particularly hit with the lack of activity. :/
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• Trinidad And Tobago
22 Jul 09
Well I'm new to my lot and some of the discussions here are pretty boring and doesn't really attract my attention. However if that's your opinion .... then try making an exciting discussion. Although there are some really odd discussions , there are some that encourage me to not just abandon my lot. I'm not here on my lot for the doe or anything because my pay-pal account isn't verified and i don't have access to verify it. I'm on my lot because i just like the idea and so....i make my time spent here enjoyable and to me the discussions that i reply to aren't unexciting. hope i answered your question and didn't stray too far from the topic
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@Citychic (4067)
• United States
22 Jul 09
I think you and Trikkiwoo are both saying the same thing. Basically you are saying to just try to be positive about the whole thing. There are so many good and wholesome discussions that we all can have if we really think about it. If you want to get deep we can go as deep as the earth allow. The only limitations that we have here at mylot are ourselves. So it's not mylot's fault if there is nothing interesting going on here. It's all within the people.....We can make it as interesting or as uninteresting as we want to. For me the entire process is very interesting and I think that one would have to be a true techie in order to assimilate here. Happy mylot everyone!
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• United States
22 Jul 09
I think some are very boring, and your right, there are days when I can't find anything I want to talk about on here, or respond to. But, I added some more interests, and I have really been searching for things that interest me. And I haven't been doing to bad. But, I would expect after over a year, you have probably just about seen it all on here. Good luck, hope you find something interesting today!
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
22 Jul 09
You are not the only one. I love exciting discussions, but it seems that most of them are the boring ones of everyday life. I think part of it is because people are afraid of controversy or afraid they might get snapped at and with the hate crime bill about to be passed, afraid that someone who works for the Democrats who knows how to get an ip address - well I did watch and read 1984 and I did watch a lot of World WAr 2 movies where there was this informer. I also notice that some here do not want to offend anyone and not even just to offend, they never disagree with anyone and that makes it rather boring. And there are those who want people to know that they are nice housekeepers, so they ask questions how often do you wash your kitchen floor. But the most is that there are some who give negatives to those who do not agree with them and that really kills the discussion and response as far as i am concerned. So there are many reasons.
@Citychic (4067)
• United States
22 Jul 09
You make a lot of very valid points suspenseful so I hope that everyone will consider this when they are making discussions. We all tend to look for what we can get out of life but sometimes we have to consider what ware we giving? What can we do to help build up somebody else' life? We are all coming here to mylot to have fun and to chill or so it seems. But the politics really doesn't seem to be getting anybody anywhere. So I think now it's time to start digging a little bit deeper and trying to find things to put out there that can really help someone. Hope you understand what I mean, whoever happens to read this. Happy mylot all!
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@OConnell87 (1042)
22 Jul 09
yeah i haven't noticed less interesting discussions but i suppose you just run out of things to say, i know most of the discussions i make are boring but i'm doing this for the money so i'm not really bothered
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@trickiwoo (2702)
• United States
22 Jul 09
It varies from day to day. Some days I log in and I can't find a single discussion worth responding to! Other days there are so many interesting discussions I can't pry myself away from MyLot!! So if you log in and can't find anything exciting, leave MyLot and go do something else. Then come back later and see if you can find anything better!
@Citychic (4067)
• United States
22 Jul 09
Is it just me or???? hello megumiart, I think it might be the kind of discussions that you are starting. I've only been here for four months and it seems like whenever I start something I get back around 200 or 300 responses. I was so busy just now responding to people. I wrote a very simple discussion and it seemed to me like everybody here at mylot wanted to respond to it. So I have been busy busy busy responding back. I don't know if people really like to talk about the movies here at mylot but you can best believe that people enjoy talking about their selves. So ask a question which pertain to people and let them know that you care about them and you will surely get great feedback. Just the other day I thought there were less and less interesting discussions also. But then today I see that five new people wanted to befriend me, so I can't help to believe that maybe you're just not putting the kind of discussions up here that people want to read or see although this one was a very good one indeed. And if you keep on going this route I feel like you would really be onto something! Hope this message isn't sounding offensive to you. I'm just sharing what my experiences have been. Hope to hear back from you. Keep me posted. happy mylot!
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
23 Jul 09
I am not sure what is going on, there does seem to be a lack of very good discussions to respond to, then again I've made a few discussions myself, and they've drawn a bit of attention, but I guess even to some those discussions are boring. I guess the one thing you can do is start a bunch of discussions that interest you and see who falls in to respond, or make more fun / interesting discussions. Everyone's interests are different, so that may play a factor.
22 Jul 09
I’ve been on here for less than a year and have noticed that there seems to be a lot more average discussions and fewer really interesting ones. I put this partly down to the longer you have been on here the more likely you are to see the same things being discussed. But I also put this down to that as more and more people join myLot the more average discussions will be started. To be honest I rarely respond to comments on my discussions immediately and prefer to do them in batches. Probably not the best way to do things but it makes my time on here more productive. Likewise with the “Watching Movies” topic, I check it out several times a day as it is my favourite area but often fail to find anything worth responding too. Mainly down to that a lot of the discussions are again repeated, such as “What’s your favourite Johnny Depp movie?” and unless I have something new to discuss I wont start a discussion just for the sake of it. What I’ve found myself doing more is member surfing and checking out what discussions people have started when I spot a really interesting comment from them. At least this way I am broadening my horizons and tending to find a few decent discussions to respond to.
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