Replying to messages
I occasionally reply to messages, but most of the time I don't. True Nudists ARE for like minded nudists to communicate, but I am handicapped by a busy schedule of other interests besides nudism. I daily log in to check for anything new.
Wow i don't mean any disrespect. I am impressed to see you are one of the earliest members of TN, so you must have seen it all.
I can fully understand that it takes a lot of effort to respond to everybody, particularly when some members have over 1,000 friends, but I will be extremely skeptical to add these people as friends in the first place. This is about time management.
A good reminder that it is about time I trim people on my friends' list.
I could be wrong but I believe most people respond to "messages" while ignoring blind friend requests so I suppose it depends on what you mean by a message. When someone sends me a blind friend request and the accompanying message just says "hi" then nine times out of ten I don't bother with them. I also don't respond to canned messages. However, I always respond to people who have taken the time to write out a couple of paragraphs to me because we have shared interests or are near one another. Those are rare. I mostly get blind friend requests from people who can't be bothered to include a note and their profiles are either blank, hidden or don't seem to show any commonalities.
I think it is impolite to ignore personal messages, but I don't consider blind friend requests to be personal messages. Of course if I were to receive some hate mail from someone who disagree with something I had posted I wouldn't treat that like a personal message either.
I'll always reply to messages and friends requests but if I check someone's profile and it has very little information or only 1 clothed pic then I will more likely want to correspond more before I give access to my other pictures.
I adopt this approach elsewhere and it has always worked well, also if I don't think something is right I won't be adding either, much like those who have posted above me here.
Considering I have a full-time job, run a nudist club, have 7 acres, a husband, and 3 cats, post and/or moderate to a number of sites, unless there are questions to be answered or more than a quick, "hi," I don't respond. There is just so much time in the day for me.
If someone is not in my area or planning on traveling here or just wants to look at photos, I do not befriend them.
I will always reply to messages, as some have said it may be simply be " hi thanks for your message" I love to chat so am happy to answer messages and hopefuly set up friendships around the world with like minded people.
friendship request I am a little more selective, but happy to accept if we have chatted, maybe similar ideas but not necessary, I do prefer open and honest discussion.
Stay naked one and all