eHow Experience: Day 18 - Making Friends

eHow stats to start the day: $6.54 now (made 67 cents yesterday) 2,405 views, 67 recommendations, and 1,030 friends.

Strangely my views number (and only my views number) updated at noon to 3,599. This is the first time that I've noticed this happening in the middle of the day. The daily eHow updates can come at sporadic times.

I now find myself really enjoying the process of reviewing my eHow statistics and trying to make sense of them. The irregularities with the updates can be frustrating, although I guess it ultimately doesn't matter - assuming it's all accurate.

I wasn't able to accurately keep track of how many eHow friend requests I sent out on Day 16 but I believe it was about 2,000. There doesn't seem to be a way to see how many friend requests are pending or how many people denied my requests. I'm sure there are still lots of pending requests for people who haven't logged into their accounts in the last few days.

It was just brought to my attention that I didn't explain how I was able to request so many eHow friends so quickly.

My method was quite simple. I just found an eHow member who has a lot of friends, some people literally have thousands. Just scroll through their list of friends and one by one open up their friend's eHow profiles and click "Request Friend."

Friends are listed in the order that they were added and I suggest starting with the oldest eHow friends first (the back of the list).

The newest friends are probably people who are brand new to eHow and these people are probably being bombarded with literally dozens of friend requests during their first few days (much like I was on my first day).

If you send a friend request to someone who received forty other requests that day there's a much smaller chance they'll actually look at your profile than someone who hasn't received a friend request in days. Start with the back of the eHow friend lists and work your way forward.