If Time Were No Object

Hi there, Yes I do keep up with a lot of my listed friends and have participated in many, many of their discussions. But I must admit there are some that I simply can't because I will not respond just for the sake of posting. If I do not have interest and or know anything about the topic it is not fair for me to post at all. I have so many listed friends and let's just say someday I will retire and have absolutely nothing to do and well instead of watching soap operas which I dislike anyways, I will be digging up and responding to quite a few of them. lol

I guess i could do that but have no desire to. I usually answer the discussions that i want to or have an opinion on. I guess if u had the time & wanted to do that, go for it.

That would be quite a task to undertake for sure! I don't think I would even want to try. I wouldn't even go back and set all my friends alerts to on either! It would take too long I am sure. I can barely keep up with the ones I check on daily already!!

A couple of days ago, I suddenly had a lot of notification emails about a lot of my old discussions. When I opened it up, it turns out that there is this one user who answered many of my discussions. Although it was not all, I still appreciated the gesture. And this actually good be a good way to help a friend, and help yourself!

Hello Tina! It would be quite impossible to go through all of my friends' discussion. There are some discussions they started that I just couldn't relate to or I think I couldn't contribute anything intelligently. I am not here on my lot simply for money, but my lot is my shrink as well and like my diary. I couldn't keep track of some. Of the discussions as well and even if I have all the time in the world, I still wouldn't be able to do that as I do get tired too. Like what you've said it would be impossible for me as well.

I do keep up with my friends but go back in time like you say, well, I think is impossible to me. My Lot runs so fast and there is always thousands of new discussions to comment. I don't even have time to participate as I would like.

I do not expect anyone to be able to respond to all of my discussions. For one thing, they might not know anything about the topic. I do not respond to all of my friend's discussions either. Sometimes I just do not have the energy to do so. If I were to run out of other things to respond to I might go try to work through just one friend.

Could I respond to every discussion...? No, mainly because half the time I have nothing to say.

hi tina oh I wish I did have that much time and energy as I am s o behind on responding to all my friends discussions as I lost four almost five days with being moved from one room to another last weekend and am still so behind ;It makes me feel like crying, I have had so many stoppages this year, the bad fall, the hospital time, then being shut out of my room as my roommate was contagious with shingles another 13 days lost., I dont think I could ever catch up with all they ever started so guess I will just do my best instead.even though I am retired and my time is mostly my own I do have to stop occasionally and go play bingo,. l,ol.,I have been here now starting on four years too. I do try and find your discussions always and a lot of my old friends but wish I could get more caught up. alas I am only one person.If my roomie would let me stay up another hour or two I could get a lot more done but as we are woke at 6 I guess ten pm bedtime is a must for two elderly ladies here. lol.we do need our eight hours.,

Hello Tina ! YES, is my answer, i have managed to keep up with all the friends here at mylot. I have been a member for a little over 4 years and have had periodic friends profile hunts where i took all the discussions i could answer that i missed when i was away or not in the particular mood to give my thoughts and solve it. Last check i performed ended somewhere in february or march this year, so i might be due for a new one sometimes soon - it will probably be after the next payout (which i will be receiving in june) as it will help me get more optimistic about the funds here - it is a bit discouraging when you see yourself starting from 0 again.

I wouldn't do that. First off I don't care to reply to all my friends discussions. There are alot of discussions I see and they don't interest me! There have been some I would like to rely to but can't come up with the words to use! Then there are friends who come up with really stupid or bizarre discussions which I just delete! So this why I won't do this.

Thoughts ... well, similar to yours. It will take lots of time but then I don't intent to even attempt it. At times you just don't have anything to say in some conversation and trying to comment there just to give someone an indication that we are following him/her, is by no means a good gesture to this community as a whole. Here we should select the discussions to respond to and not the people to respond to. This way we can make new friends as well.

When I just joined I did skip commenting to all responses received but now I see to it that I diligently comment on them. And as for responding to discussions I do it only if I am interested in that topic even if they from my 'friends' list.

Whenever I get bored here at Mylot and don't find any discussions that interest me, I go over my friends' profiles and search for discussions they started that interests me. I don't try to respond to every discussion they started because some of them I cannot relate to. I just pick a few but not all. And it doesn't help at all if the browser is so slow.

It would be nice if I had the time to do that. The money would be great, but being able to acknowledge all my friends that way would be even better!

aammm, no I respond to discussions I'm interested it and skip those I'm not I do find that if someone responds to my discussions regularly and/or only post a few a week, I'm more likely to even BOTHER to look at their discussions if I'm behind (like I am at the moment.) I have been deleting a couple of friends' discussions because they 1)post TONS of them; 2) seldom respond to MY discussions; or 3) only post one in a hundred discussions I'm likely to respond to. WHEN I get caught up again, I will probably go back to bothering to look at them, which is why they aren't getting deleted from my friend's lists, but I'm really behind!

Tina, As you've said it, if time was no object - then I am sure most of us here would be responding to every posts. But, I don't think so since we all have our lives to live and it comes with things to do like our work, responsibilities and families. I do try to read every posts but not respond to all of them for various reasons, starting with some which are non related and/or have nothing to do with me that needs my response. There are some whom I literally do not bother to respond since they are not being forthcoming where they would just simply post and not comment to people who responded. It just speaks volumes what these people are up to. On this aspect, there are some who starts a discussion with nothing but a one sentence question - you would not see me there as well. Such discussion just tells me that the person does not have enough there (subject/idea) to make it all worthwhile. I believe in choosing and know when to refuse to help us manage with time scarcity we have.

I can't get through all of the ones that come up in a day, never mind all of them. I'm sure there are some really good ones that I've missed though.

I tend to do that when i am lost for good topics Tina, i would pick a mylotter and go through that mylotter's discussions and reply to it

I only respond to the discussions that interest me or sometimes irked me to respond... However I do try my best to comment back on all the responses that came to my discussions.