Your presence is awaited
By @mayka123
@mayka123 (17083)
India
January 2, 2012 7:57pm CST
I have now been on mylot for over three years. Made a lot of friends here over the years. For the past couple of weeks /months I have noticed that a lot of my mylot friends are missing from my discussions. I do see their discussions here sometimes but do not see their responses to my discussions. Is is because their notifications are off?
Or are my discussions too boring?
Or are they busy elsewhere?
Please dear friends, respond to this discussion and let me know the reason why you are not responding to my discussions?????????
Or are my discussions too boring?
Or are they busy elsewhere? 4 people like this
12 responses
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
3 Jan 12
It could be that some of your friends are no longer on mylot. Their profiles might have been deleted. This does not automatically take them out of your friends list. Others who are on your friends list may not respond to any discussions. Some people just join the site and request everybody they can to be their friend and then you never hear from them again. This is so frustrating.
Of course it could be something with the way you post discussions. I have noticed that you post a number of discussions in a row almost at the same time. Do you write them up in notepad or something and them transfer them over en masse. I have also noticed that you only respond to a few selected comments. Some of your discussions have never been revisited by you. We like to think what we have to say is interesting to you as well.
And then of course there is the fact that not everyone is interested in all the same topics. We may not have any knowledge to share on the topic you have introduced. You should not let that make you angry.
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@mayka123 (17083)
• India
3 Jan 12
I am talking about my active friends here who are responding to discussions regularly. I do not care about the friends who just add friends and disappear. They are just mylotters for me and not friends.
At home when I am busy with housework I sometimes make a note on my notepad about topics for discussions and then as soon as I log in I post those discussions. That is the reason for 2/3 discussions at a time sometimes. More so when I know I will be online the whole day and have time to respond to my discussions.
I have taken a note about not revisiting my discussions. Have started that today after reading your response. Actually for some years I was mylotting only from office because I did not have a computer at home. Just managed to buy a laptop for myself a couple of months back and am now getting used to my new routine of spending some time online from home. But even then after coming home from work after 12 hours it gets a bit tiring and sometimes I am not able to keep up with my discussions. But have kept the notifications pending for response later. Need to work on this soon.
It is true that everyone is not able to share on all topics. I too sometimes have to delete notifications without responding because I am not able to share anything on that particular topic. And thanks for your response. This discussion is giving me a little insight on what I am doing and what I need to do.
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
3 Jan 12
You certainly have an open mind and that is very pleasing to see. We all can learn something everyday because as long as we live we will never know it all. When I first started here on the lot I had to learn a lot of things. Some people here gave me some good advise and I took it and improved. Of course not all advise is good and you have to choose what will work for you. I have seen you visit more discussions tonight than normally and it is a pleasure to get to respond back and forth with you.
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
4 Jan 12
Hi dear,
I confess, I am not participating the topics by my friends for the past few months. When I get free time I think that I may get free time hereafter and even started topics too. Once started topic then I get busy with works again so hardly get time to respond to my friend’s topic. When I get small breaks then I am spending that time with my topic only. Today I have responded to some friends after a long time, I think. Please don’t feel bad and understand me as I am running out of time. Other than works, I had problems with electricity; there were long time power cuts due to some repairing works so naturally when the power is back I should complete my works in office. The harsh winter makes moody too.
Have a wonderful time dear.
I confess, I am not participating the topics by my friends for the past few months. When I get free time I think that I may get free time hereafter and even started topics too. Once started topic then I get busy with works again so hardly get time to respond to my friend’s topic. When I get small breaks then I am spending that time with my topic only. Today I have responded to some friends after a long time, I think. Please don’t feel bad and understand me as I am running out of time. Other than works, I had problems with electricity; there were long time power cuts due to some repairing works so naturally when the power is back I should complete my works in office. The harsh winter makes moody too.
Have a wonderful time dear.
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@mayka123 (17083)
• India
4 Jan 12
With most of us working full time and managing to be online for just a few minutes on and off I think it is difficult for us to give full attention to everyone. I am now on leave and therefore managing to be on mylot for more time. After I go back to work may be I too would start lagging behind in my responses. And power cuts is becoming a major problem everywhere.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
3 Jan 12
You can always go to friend's profiles and see what they have been working on. I find many of mine have just been working on different interests. Of course many have left, there is a life out there without mylot, hard to think about that.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
4 Jan 12
Hi mayka! I am sorry that you are missing responses from your friends. I try to be active in all my friends' discussions but I must admit that I am by no means perfect and might miss a couple sometimes. It isn't because your discussions are boring by any means..if I have missed them..it is because of my workload off myLot. I am a mom, a fulltime student, and a manager at a company working at least 5 and up to 7 days a week. It is not because of you that I have missed discussions..lol. It might be the same for some of your other friends too. Sometimes we become consumed with life and its responsibilities.
I hope that you get all the activity that you desire from your future discussions. Take care.
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@mayka123 (17083)
• India
4 Jan 12
I think all of us are multitasking. We have regular full day jobs to first think of. And after that whatever free time we manage we have to do all our online activities. Have got very good responses for all the discussions I started yesterday for which I am very happy!!!
@ravisivan (14082)
• India
3 Jan 12
All of us are choosy about responding for discussions. All of probably get updates but prefer to choose from and out of that. I have been posting my response in discussions wherever I found them answerable or I am in the know of things relating to that.
Today this is third response I am putting for discussions started by you.

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@mayka123 (17083)
• India
3 Jan 12
I have started three discussions today and I am happy you have responded in all three. I too am a bit choosy in choosing discussions for responses because many a times there are topics of which I know nothing about. And politics and religion are two topics that I prefer avoiding.
@viju0410 (2286)
• India
3 Jan 12
Hi, though not so old here, i try to read most of the discussions from 'my interest' and i am glad to see some from you too. Sometimes I get less time to respond but that doesn't mean you started a boring topic. I am not sure what happened to your other friends but I would try to respond to the posts started by 'friends'. At times it is difficult as we have no clue about the topic so at that position make us to be in 'silent mode'. Take care.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
3 Jan 12
himayka 123 I willrespond and search out your discussions. for whatever reason I have not seen you til just lately but you have over 3000 points so you have been active, I am starting my fifth
year here myself.Whenever anyone makes a discussion like yours I will do my best to help out.I was once new here and at first did
'not get many responses so I now try to help others who have friends missing and put in my two or three cents too.Your discussions have
never seemed boring to me and I believe I have responded to several lately too.hope everyone gives y ou some good responses.





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@mayka123 (17083)
• India
3 Jan 12
Hi Hatley, We have been friends here for quite some time. We have been responding to each others discussions. I do like reading your responses because they are quite good and interesting. Thanks for saying that my discussions are not boring. I do try to start discussions where even the newbies here who are not too good at English will be able to understand and respond. Otherwise many who are trying to get used to communicating in English find it difficult to understand some of the discussions started here.
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
3 Jan 12
Mayka..we each take some time out from here and there to say hello to our friends out here. Perhaps the list of friends has increased so much that they are not having enough time to focus on all discussions. If your discussions reach the second or third page, it would happen with me as well. Though interesting discussions are a way to share views, I also participate in other discussions only to say hello to my buddies. So most certainly, if you are feeling my absence, it is because by the time I logged in, your discussion has gone to the second or third page under my "friends started" page. Ok? Sorry..

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@mayka123 (17083)
• India
3 Jan 12
I typed out a nice long response to this post and the net just went pooooffff. And my response disappeared. Cannot repeat it all again
Have no complaint against you because you are always around here. Its the others who rarely come and when they come I dont know where they disappear. They forget to meet me. And I miss them.
@Professor2010 (20156)
• India
3 Jan 12
Well we are old friends, i do respond to friends discussions, but it is certainly not possible to respond to all notifications from mylot, i have other works to do in computer like writing my research papers, i sell horoscopes, numerology reports too..
More over my health issue is another problem for my lessened activity here.
Best of luck.
Professor
Professor
@conquer2012 (324)
• China
3 Jan 12
I am very glad to be here, and it is my pleasure to have a lot of friends here. for what I have not responsed to these messages is that I am so busy that i can not afford the time. However, the next time I will try my best to response it as soon as possible.
@bb_gabs (205)
• Philippines
3 Jan 12
I am new with my lot, and enjoyed joining to different discussions, I hope I can have a lot of friends here too. Can you be my friend?? You are active I know but maybe there are a lot more active members than you are that covers your discussions, thats why your friends did not see your discussions.
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