"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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If 'social' media were to dissappear forever.

Naughty Ninja

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What would people do if things like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Myspace, T.V., the internet, cellular phones were all gone forever as far as social relationships? Would the world be better off without them as far as interacting with people?
 

"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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Radharc

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Except for tv, that has been the reality of a lot of ppl older than 30 for a long time, you just have to think how it was back then.

I think the main difference was that ppl placed more effort on actual interaction with others, instead of virtual interaction. More effort equaled less but better chosen targets and probably more consistent results as well, todays social networkrs interactions are, in a way, a bit like carpet bombing.
 

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I liked the net much better before myspace, facebook and twitter. Those sites sicken me to be honest. I cannot stand seeing all the attention hoes on it and the love to tell everything on them. They are silly as hell and there are men that are just as bad. I still have facebook, but I rarely use it and hardly ever talk to anyone on it. I do keep it for the contacts.

Those sites ruined what used to be a good thing. Getting women off the net used to be like shooting fish in the barrel and as it became more popular with those silly sites, it has become hard to sell yourself as being better than the next guy. When I see a bunch of pics of girls sky diving, clubbing and foreign travel, I see it as boasting. I think to myself, "she is probably as miserable as anybody else!" Let me just see a nice pic of you w/o the garbage. If you are fun, real life will prove it.

Just look at the average women on plentyoffish and other sites, thinking they can get whomever they want and in a real life situation they would not stand a chance with a dude that has his $hit together.... Hey I used to be that guy!! I am getting it back though.

Nothing beats real life interaction. Was true back in the day and even more so now.
 

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I feel their is nothing wrong with those things if they are used secondary option. However, for most people that is not the case and that is their primary source for finding a relationship.
 

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Then America would be %1000 more productive and there would be no such thing as "an obesity epidemic"
 

“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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