SL friends list!

I've got 25 so far! And I talk to all of em. *LOL* How mant do u have, and how many do u actually talk to when youre in world?





P.S. I'm Always looking for friends so watch out for me I might claim your friendship!

Probably about the same number. And I actually talk to very few of them! Some rarely long on; others, we just don't talk all that much anyway, and that's cool, too. Kinda feels friendly just seeing them lit up on my list.

coco

i have about 200 people on my friends list and probably Manny more calling cards.
there are actually only 3 people that i talk to on a daily basis.

A lot of the older players, myself included, have a lot. This is because Friends used to be calling cards, and the more cards you had used to have an effect on score - and maybe even weekly stipend if I'm remember correctly. I think I have somewhere in the 2000 range, just because cards were eventually converted into friends.

Regards,

-Flip

'bout 20 friends and I talk to all of them regularly. I won't add someone as a friend unless I've talked to them enough to be able to actually call them one to begin with... so that helps keep the list manageable.

And on the other hand, some of the older players, myself included, didn't really go for the rating/calling card farming (and yep, it did affect stipend for a while). Even now my list has only a dozen names, tops.


Can anyone explain clearly what the difference is between calling cards and this 'friends list'? I've yet to find a definition that adequately explains the two, nor why it was split into two concepts in the first place.

People who are on your friends list can see your online status and stalk you on the map, you can give them permissions to modify your objects. This is the old 'calling card' behavior. The new cards are just that, an item in your inventory that allows you to remember a person. They do not have any additional features.

I have about 20 people on my friends list, and talk to/visit about 5 of them.

I quite often decline a friendship / calling card invitation sent to me by someone I've spoken to only for five minutes in an evening. Is this considered impolite? I just like to keep my list a manageable length and not get so many "Joe Bloggs is online" type things coming up on my screen.

I have a fair amount, speak to nobody, but for some reason I just don't ditch them. That is, until I end up in some spam IM folder from someone.

I like to profile snoop and quite often a slip of the mouse results in me offering friendship to all sorts of people.

Disable that in your preferences, we all do

Its also an easy way to IM someone.

Another reason I think my friends list is so extensive is that I only deleted the ones I didn't remember once - and some people got very offended. I'd prefer to see ALL calling cards and friends scrapped in favor of this:

(1) Everyone is on a level playing field, can NOT map each other, but can see online status.

(2) Each person can WHITE LIST anyone they wish, which would allow people on their white list to accept or decline the ability to map and see online status reminders for the individual.

(3) Each person can BLACK LIST anyone they wish, which will make you appear off line in FIND to the person being black listed.

This would removed millions of assets from the various servers (friends and cards) and cut down on the "bad feeling" people get from REJECTING someone as a friend.

Regards,

-Flip

I've got hundreds of friends in my CC/Friends card list, but never use the them.

If I want to IM someone, I end up using Find.

I feel a little guilty declining friends invitations, since I like being friendly to everyone. I feel that the message "Travis Lambert has declined your friendship invitation" is a little cold - especially to a new resident.

what's the option to do that? I don't see it...?

"Show online friend notifications" on the General tab

SNAP! That's exactly how I feel... I have about 100 people on my list, I talk to 5 people daily, and another 10 or so occassionally. The rest just kind of mill around there. I pretty much always accept friendship invitations just to be nice, most of the time I never get IM'd or talk to people again after that and that's fine with me... always nice to know they're there.

Heh... the other day I was talking to someone and we had a really great conversation and loads of laughs, we went to exchange cards only to find that we'd already done so many moons ago.

I also like to look at the profiles to keep up with the gossip... you can tell alot about a person through their profiles and with some of my friends it's a virtual soap opera being played out in their 'picks'.