When you first joined MyLot honw ong did it take you to make new friends?

United States
October 29, 2009 7:54pm CST
Im new and I don't have friends yet on here. How long did it take for someone to extend an MyLot friendship to you or did you initiate it? I usually just stay to myself on social networking sites and remain friendless. Which is kind of how I am in real life. (But I do have a couple good friends!)How do you usually make friends with strangers online? =]
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
30 Oct 09
It's such a long time ago that I honestly can't remember but one by one the list just sort of grew. I have been here over two years and some of my very first friends are still active here. I hope you will enjoy it here and I'm sure it won't take you long to build up a friend list too. Oh, I tried checking out the site you have in your profile under your avatar but it is not leading anywhere. Maybe you would like to fix it? Welcome to the Lot!
@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
30 Oct 09
It is still not working
• United States
31 Oct 09
lol I know I couldn't remember how to edit the link and then I had to go somewhere I just changed it now! and it's almost 9:30 pm
• United States
30 Oct 09
Thanx for your input too! It's gonna be hard finding the best answer Thanx for informing me about the link I may have misspelled something!
• United States
30 Oct 09
Hi GiveMoola! Welcome to the lot. I am fairly new here myself and I have been really enjoying myself. I have had some really great conversations on this site over the past couple of months and have learned a lot about myself. The best advice I can give you is to follow up on all your discussions. Answer peoples responses with thought and interest. I can't speak for anyone else here but I get frustrated when people do not respond back to me on their discussions. I don't expect all posts to turn into full conversations but it is a great feeling when it does happen. I have found so many people with similar interests and beliefs to my own. I have also talked to people with very different perspectives than my own. Keep an open mind and have fun here. And, remember, the more you put into a discussion, the more you get out of it! Have fun and see you around the lot!
• United States
30 Oct 09
Thanks joydee for your response! I appreciate you being the first one too! Great advice! I intend on adding to the discussions that interest me. I guess I hope that I would be interesting enough to other people on here.
• United States
30 Oct 09
With so many different types of people on here I would just be yourself and there are bound to be people who are attracted to you for friendship. I have not been here for very long but have found so many that think like me. It is wonderful to have the conversations. Keep them going whenever possible to learn more from each other. I find that I often think of new discussions because of the side conversations through other discussions. Just have fun and enjoy your time here!
• United States
31 Oct 09
Oh wow that's a good point. You give good feedback! =]
@hellcowboy (7374)
• United States
30 Oct 09
I remember when me and my wife first started here on mylot,and we had a lot of questions and concerns and we did not have any friends,and I remember that as I responded to peoples discussions I made new friends,and some of the friends I am good friends with and I respond to all of their discussions,and some I do not respond to,and I try to get rid of the ones on my friends list who do not start discussions,or do not comment back when I respond to them,or start short discussions,or do short responses since those are really annoying.
• United States
31 Oct 09
Yep the key is to be active,have fun here,and just enjoy yourself.
• United States
30 Oct 09
ok so really the key is to be ACTIVE! Thank you!
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@Bebs08 (10681)
• United States
30 Oct 09
Oh!! welscme to mylot. Wehn I was first timer in mylot way back a year ago, It did not take me a long time to have lots of friends. I initiate to have friends. If I found someone who has a good topic? I will send a request to be friend with that person. But most often, they are the ones who requested me to be their friend sepcially if they like my topics. Just go ahead sending request to someone you would want to be a friend. Good luck.
• United States
31 Oct 09
Thank You so much! That's great advice. I think I'm going to initiate more friendships on here!
• India
30 Oct 09
i received my first friend request when my rating was 6................
• United States
30 Oct 09
Wow and you're at a 7 now..thanx for sharing!
• United States
31 Oct 09
i have just joined to and i have the same question. how do you make freinds online?
• United States
31 Oct 09
Great! I hope this discussion shed some light on the subject like it has done for me!
@hora_fugit (5862)
• India
30 Oct 09
I think now a days people get friends much sooner than when I joined, some 3 years ago. It took me time to filter out the requests and by the time I got some good ones, I was off the site! That happens and I'm lucky to get back to those who are still active.
• United States
30 Oct 09
OMG your avatar just blinked! lol Thank you for your response. I don't like to have to filter people but I know I will have too. It gets tedious!!
@cybearn (117)
• Indonesia
4 Nov 09
i joined my lot for almost a year i guess and still have not any friend, well if you see my profile you will see i only have 2 friends which i never talked with.. i dunno, hope to find some nice friend here soon..
@scififan43 (2434)
• United States
12 Nov 09
When I first joined here I was refered to by a friend. After I joined, I got friend request from varios members. it was ussualy after I had responed to a few disscions posted by them. when I got my friend request, I would look at there profile and decied to whiether or not friend them back. I still get few frined request from time to time here.
@uiskana (136)
• Malaysia
30 Oct 09
When i join here someone already send friend invitation lol... Anyway i dont care because mostly my internet friend is good and nice... You just need good social skill and always chatting with them if you wanna make friends online... Dont worry everyone is okay just dont shy...
• United States
30 Oct 09
Be social, Don't be shy, and have faith nor not lol and I will eventually make friends? Thanx I agree!!
• Australia
30 Oct 09
Hi even i am new here buddy, i prefer to select my friends just by their topic selection or by their answers ,n sometimes random..:-)
• United States
30 Oct 09
Thats actually a good way of doing it too! Thank you