Rules for Friends Invites (copy)

Rules for Friends Invites

I am currently still receiving hundreds of invites every week. I do check out a few and very occasionally I accept one.However, the vast majority that I receive are from people with no profile, or blog, or from foreign men.. You would be amazed at the offers and requests that I receive from these “Gentlemen”!

Sadly, for them, I am happily married and not looking for anyone or anything else! Should my status change in the future, you on 360 will be the first to know. Unfortunately, for the afore mentioned Gentlemen, I will be looking for a 30 year old British millionaire!

Seriously, deleting all these invites takes time away from my own blogging. I know I have posted stuff before asking these people not to send me invites, but clearly it isn’t working, so I have come up with some rules for you to follow before you send me that invite:

1. Do you have a fully completed profile?
2. Do you have a Blog which you post to regularly?

If you answer yes to the above two, then please continue.

1. Read my Blog. Not just the first entry, but some of the older ones.
2. Do you like what you see?
3. Do you think that we may have things in common?
4. Are you happy to interact with me at least once a week?

If you answer yes to the above four then please continue.

1. Send me some comments. They will alert me to your presence. I will probably visit your blog and leave you a comment.
2. If we strike up a rapport, then and only then, when you have actually spoken to me, it will be polite to send an invite. I will probably accept!!

This may all sound rather formal but I want to ask you a question…….. When you go out with someone on a first date do you hop straight into bed with them or do you get to know them first?? I am not for one minute suggesting that we go to bed (Heaven forbid, I am trying to avoid the weirdo’s!) BUT, what I am saying is that I find it polite for people to attempt to talk to me through messages and comments before jumping in with that invite.

I do try to follow my own rules. I would never send an invite to anyone without first reading their blog and leaving them some comments over a few weeks. If they do not come to my blog then I assume that they have probably looked and not been interested.

All of our blogs are different and all done for a variety of reasons. My blog is for me. I like to have friends that share my interests and concerns and with whom I can talk. If my rules offend you then please just move on. If you like my blog but don’t want to join up with me, well please feel free to continue to lurk. I lurk on a few blogs myself!

So, those are my rules. If you don’t follow them, I will just delete your invite. Sorry, if they annoy anyone, but as I said if you don’t like my tone, you are free to just close my window. Oh, and one last thing, you need to speak English. It is the only language that I speak and I do not understand anything else. Thank you.