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Do you usually accept friend request from people on italki?
Sometimes, I send friend requests people, but sometimes it is rejected and feel a bit ignored. How about you?
2019년 6월 3일 오전 9:22
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I reject a half of friendship requests or more, because people don't have even one red bar of their level of English, haven't filled their profile in, don't have a clear request for speaking practice, have signed in the same day they are messaging me, haven't participated in any italki section, but already have made friends with a dozen of people which are all pretty girls.
I also hate messages without punctuation and capital letters. And words reduction to 'hru' or 'how r u' and so on just pisses me off.
I also hate messages without punctuation and capital letters. And words reduction to 'hru' or 'how r u' and so on just pisses me off.
2019년 6월 3일
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To me, even you don't seem to be a real person. Your profile name is 'language learner' and look at your profile pic it's not you it's just a random photo that has no human in it. I think now you know why some people ignore you.
2019년 6월 3일
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The others have made good points. Let me ask you a couple of questions, Ms Learner:
1. Why do you send a “friend request” instead of actually starting a conversation with a personalized message?
2. By the way, if someone came up to you on the street and said “let’s be friends”, how would you react?
2019년 6월 3일
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Yes, I decline "friend requests" from people who don't even bother to change the standard template italki inserts in the message when you send a request. Often, they don't even speak any of my target languages. If they do speak one of my target languages, they haven't read my profile, especially the part where I say that I don't reply to generic messages. I feel no guilt in declining such requests from people about whom I know nothing, and who are probably sending messages to the first people who pop up in their search. The least people should do is read the user profile. If that's too time-consuming, I'm not interested. Besides, if people don't have time to read one page, I do wonder how they'll have time for a language exchange or even message exchange.
I regretted making myself visible on the language search, because of a flood of generic requests and spammers/scammers. It's frustrating and exhausting. So, I turned it off. People can find me through community activity and get in touch that way if they want. It's more likely to be productive and stimulating.
2019년 6월 3일
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@Crisna
Yes you're right. I don't have my picture, but just Korean pavilion picture. I had troubles because of flirting messages from some people. If you're a woman, regardless of attractive or not, you would have such messages. It's waste of time and energy.
Instead, I decided to post threads, questions or comments, because I thought it would show that I'm serious in learning language and I'm real person, not scammer. And when I find some people who are fluent in my target language or natives, I'd like to be their friends. Some seem to participate in this community very nicely without their own pictures. I think no problem without my picture..
Yes you're right. I don't have my picture, but just Korean pavilion picture. I had troubles because of flirting messages from some people. If you're a woman, regardless of attractive or not, you would have such messages. It's waste of time and energy.
Instead, I decided to post threads, questions or comments, because I thought it would show that I'm serious in learning language and I'm real person, not scammer. And when I find some people who are fluent in my target language or natives, I'd like to be their friends. Some seem to participate in this community very nicely without their own pictures. I think no problem without my picture..
2019년 6월 3일
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