"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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Is there a thread that someone knows of regarding sites like Match?

I have been using them a lot, with a pretty good amount of success. But I bet there's a good thread around here somewhere that would help me tighten my game a bit, as it relates to online dating.
 

“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”

Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.

Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers.  Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.

I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.

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Search the forum for Internet Dating but be wary about threads focusing on social networks, different concepts.
 

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Match.com

Truth be told... I've had some awesome success with Match.com. I can also see how this could sabotage my efforts to overcome my AFC past. Match takes away the "heavy-lifting" of cold-approaching girls in bars and coffee shops.

I guess what I'm saying.... Is that now I'm less willing to approach a HB at a bar and risk embarassment, when I know I can get (and bed) a girl just as hot online.

Match can be a little addictive for me since it's become a surefire method for getting laid.

-Trail-
 

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Depends where you live. In my area, it seems like the same 20 or so girls come up and they have been on there for 3-4 years.

If you are into black and mixed chicks. Try blackpeoplemeet.com. It's only 9.95 a month, you don't have to go through the hassle of terminating your membership when you are through and they have some decent selections, although there are quite a few "ringers" mixed in.
 

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Good lord, I can't get ANYTHING going on match. I've emailed over 130 girls over several months, and only one nibble, and she is 2 hours away. I've changed the writeup, changed pics, changed email style. NOTHING works.

If anyone wants to look at the link and give me points, I'm willing to listen. Please PM me for the link.
 

"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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Rhizzle said:
Good lord, I can't get ANYTHING going on match. I've emailed over 130 girls over several months, and only one nibble, and she is 2 hours away. I've changed the writeup, changed pics, changed email style. NOTHING works.

If anyone wants to look at the link and give me points, I'm willing to listen. Please PM me for the link.
What do you say in your emails to them? The women that I go out with from Match say that they usually delete the majority of the emails they get because of what the guy says. Also, very few respond to just a wink.
 

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I've had some initial success with Match. A good way to get bites on match is to contact women that have looked at your profile.

I also try to write something to them that isn't the usual "you seem cool let's hang out" kind of thing.
 

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Match has actually been very good to me, at least for getting a first date. Maybe I'll post a thread on some of the reasons why it's worked so well, I think I have the 'getting them to meet up' part down to a science. I use it like a CRM, if anyone is familiar with that.

My problem is getting a second date, my game really needs some fine tuning. Which is why I'm doing some searches on these threads & forums to see if there are differences and special things to beware of when meeting women from Match or eHarmony, etc (it seems there are).
 

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Match is a pay-to-read-your-emails site. A lot of people have the free account and won't pay to read notes from guys that don't have pics up or pics that aren't that good.
 

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My problem is getting a second date, my game really needs some fine tuning. Which is why I'm doing some searches on these threads & forums to see if there are differences and special things to beware of when meeting women from Match or eHarmony, etc (it seems there are).
same problem here, exactly. According to the other thread we are just supposed to ask them if they want to come over and have sex with us(implied sex). That would be great if it were really that easy, but I have a difficult time believing it is given womens insecurities and rape fear, etc.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Blackmm said:
Match is a pay-to-read-your-emails site. A lot of people have the free account and won't pay to read notes from guys that don't have pics up or pics that aren't that good.
You don't want to deal with those women anyway. The women (and men for that matter) who are serious about meeting people on Match will actually subscribe. The ones who don't want to pay and just want the attention will more than likely hang out on one of the social networks.
 
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