I used to go to the lives counter, ask friends and blast everyone by Check all. I found I didn't get as good a response as I was excepting. Now, I go to my friends list directly from the main screen, then click on each friend, click send life, then click request life. I get a much better response plus I think it's good etiquette. I have some friends that appear to blast all their friends very frequently. If they do more than once or twice a day, I request a life from them and won't send them a life until they send me one. If doesn't take that long and I feel I get more lives that way. After too many ignored request life requests from me, I'll drop them as a friend, sorry. I'm just trying to introduce some etiquette in the game. Something to think about.