"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Machine10033

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I feel like I am a dinosaur... I have never used online dating.... and have no social media. Are there others here that have somehow managed to remain frozen circa 2000?
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Kotaix

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My girlfriend is one such dinosaur, it's very refreshing to be with someone who doesn't have any social media and isn't constantly checking her phone.
 

KindredSpiritzz

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I no longer have social media as im disgusted by the misinformation and and rumor spreading it has become. I have however online dated since 2005 or so. Once you jump in you'll figure it out fast enough, aint rocket science.
 

Tilex

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You missed out on the "golden era" of online dating.
Its currently way past it's prime.
I wouldn't even bother with it if I were you.
I completely stopped using social media a decade ago because the quality kept dropping drastically every year.
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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jimwho

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Zero social media. I'm old and my kid and friends can be annoying watching them amuse themselves with the phone world. Did Facebook when it was new, a handful of childhood girlfriends found me and it was just too strange and I disappeared. I'm in mid move from Liberal-Land to the Midwest. I put up an Avatar, that's a pic of my new front yard.

I know zero people there accept family. So I signed up on POF, free only and my first time. I'm a bit concerned about 50-60 Midwest images of women. Game plan will have to be different than that fiasco. (no disrespect) but Its kinda spooky. So NO you're not the only low tech Dinosaur.
 

Machine10033

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You missed out on the "golden era" of online dating.
Its currently way past it's prime.
I wouldn't even bother with it if I were you.
I completely stopped using social media a decade ago because the quality kept dropping drastically every year.
trust me... I’m avoiding it all. When it first started people viewed it as odd. I remember people joking it was for losers that couldn’t deal with reality. My cousin met his wife off Match and I remember people joking at the wedding about it..... then online dating became a big thing.
 

Max Baker

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Social media is the main cause of depression. It's why so many women are depressed and miserable because they are addicted to their phone and social media. I deleted my accounts about 2 months ago. Awesome feeling. I still use OLD to spin plates, nothing serious and its how it should be treated.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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FuzzX

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I don't use a smartphone, prefer single player games, don't use social media and don't understand what the hell happened. Young people call me grandpa now and give me the side ways glance when I mention I only have a land line. :D
 

Guitar_Whizz

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You're not missing anything. I admire you. I don't use online dating either, and only use social media for marketing my business, but I no longer use it for personal stuff due to previous bad experiences.

If you can do cold approaches in person in 2021 then you're a rare breed of guy and it will make you stand out from other guys in the eyes of women, since so few guys do cold approach these days (pandemic notwithstanding).
 

Glassguy

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You missed out on the "golden era" of online dating.
Its currently way past it's prime.
I wouldn't even bother with it if I were you.
I completely stopped using social media a decade ago because the quality kept dropping drastically every year.
Totally agree. I had a field day on OLD but within 2 years the tables turned on OLD from a hookup site to women attention wh0res. Its trash.

I keep fb because I score a lot of dates and lays from it. I'm not on FB to see pics from little Johnnie's birthday party. I use it primarily to get laid. And it works easily.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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