Here’s a question that I think anyone online has had to ask themselves . . . when do you take people off your friends list? Now, I don’t mean the occasional jackass that might bother you and you find out that they have a brain of a donkey, but when do you “clean up your friends list”?
For this blog I’m going to use my list as an example. I have some friends that like to keep their list. Some people like to hoard their friends. I know from talking to various friends that they will play one rank match with someone and a year later they have had no contact with the player but god forbid they drop the person from it. On the other hand, some people go the month-rule of you play, you don’t stay. I like to say I’m a collector of sorts. I have a little bit of both. I just did a small house cleaning of sorts before I wrote this. All the people were either ones that I just don’t ever play with or one was a friend whose annoying son would pop in and not shut up. I like the guy, but I feel comfortable to say that he lost the gamer feeling and won’t be playing anymore.
As for my list, everyone has the everyday players on their list. The players that are friends and they schedule their grocery shopping and their drinking around. Examples on my list include – Evil Ric , Pengwenn, Hell weasel (well, most of the time). I have some people who were on the list but are MIA right now (El Sand dog, El Zak, and Genghis khan 70). Will they return?????
I have a supporting cast of players that I either communicate with or play with from time to time. It is safe to say that we all have friends like that on our list. From time to time they send a message about liking a game or you jump in and play online matches with them.
My third category is for sentimental and note worthy players. I just as of late took a couple off my list. I have a few, like Hut Sut Raw, that I would never take off because once in a blue moon we communicate with each other and the last time we played I enjoyed it. I do have a freak of nature on my friends list. Luse 666 has a gamer score of 186872 as I write this . His account is 5 years old. Shit, my fingers would be fried.
Lastly, there is the relative spot. The ones you can’t take off your list or you will get a shit and a brick wrapped with a bow at Christmas. Hester, yes that’s you. Did I come close to anyone’s list? Well safe to say my list is solid at 41. Who knows what person will pop into your room any given night to play with you.
Mine is pretty much the same. :)
ReplyDeleteThe highest my number has ever been was 76. It took Clee forever to add me to his list once I got a 360 because he had maxed out his list at the time and didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings by booting them.
ReplyDeleteI purge my ilst about once every 6 months or so. There are sentimental ones that I will never take off even if they never come back to gaming (Big Gamer, Fbody and Genghis Khan to name a few).
I ran into someone plying MD2 that was trying to get a list with just "Penguin" players (their name too). Any variation would do. I accepted just to see his list but he didn't last long on mine. I'd rather be on someone's list and have them be on mine because I like to play with them instead of just what my name is.
I figured people would have the same thought as mine. It puzzles me how some one can have 99 friends.
ReplyDelete99 friends. I have no idea who I have left on my friends list. I need to start playing, but each time I do, my wife gives me the evil eye.
ReplyDeleteEvil eye? Your wife??????
ReplyDeleteI have about 36 on my list so I'm in no hurry to remove anyone from my list. I recently removed a player from my list that I only played one specific game with. But now that the game is no longer playable online and we had no real connection outside of that game, it was unnecessary to keep him there.
ReplyDeleteEarly on I removed a couple of players from my list because they used to invite me into a room for target practice and not much more. Somehow I always ended up on the opposite side of them in matches.