Dear Friends,

Since I cannot write a reply back to all those friends who sent me messages asking for comments on their works, I’m writing this article. Yesterday alone I got 11 messages from Triond users, who are not in my friends list, asking to check their work and comment on it. So, needless to tell about my mail box size daily.

Believe me, as a way of encouraging, I used to comment on the works of these “Yet To Add” friends. Even though most of them message me with a word “I’ll return the favor”, only few does. But still I never minded and just make comments at least on one article of the mailer. But recently the count of messages have grown indiscriminately are increasing day by day, that I find it tough to comment or reply all of them. Because I already have lots of friends in my list, to whom I loyally doing comments every day.

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Sometimes few of my already added friends used to message me to comment on their work, which I got missed. That I would really appreciate. Because since we are already friends and know the values of each other’s comments, they might have thought I should not miss that article. Sometimes, in the ocean of articles, I used to miss few of my good friends articles. So I take those messages from them as a reminder. But when new friends (as I said, yet to add friends) message me in bulk, I’m really annoyed, as sometimes I miss my good friends messages.

So I would like to kindly request all those new friends, instead of messaging people like me (and just getting deleted by few people, even without reading your message) you can comment on their works as the first step towards friendship. Why don’t you take the first step of commenting? To my knowledge, at least 90% of the users are loyal in returning their comments to those who commented in their page . My nature is, I used to return at least one comment more than what I received from others.

A message asking for comment on your work without commenting on any of the others work will surely going to irritate the user. I hope you friends take this in right sense and understand the pain of the receiver.

Thanks and Warm Regards

Mythili Kannan