She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Gives you an idea of the kind of people who use FaceBook.ArcBound said:Actually the Facebook community is not going crazy at all cause its not shutting down at all.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20027960-71.html
http://mashable.com/2011/01/09/facebook-shutdown/
Lol I hope you really didn't believe that rumor? Some people believe anything they see online.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
I'll get a date with a HB10 before Facebook gets taken down. They provide a service tailor made for scalability, they expect heavy traffic. On top of that, their servers are not on a single place, I assure you. See what happened when those ignorant punks at anonymous tried to take Amazon down, the same will happen with Facebook (zero impact).I WISH someone would hack that turd website and shut it down.
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.
It may be a "joke" when you consider who uses what for social networking, but the MySpace company is still doing damn well for itself. Sure, they have dipped, but they are by no means in trouble of closing down.Forty0ztoFreedom said:Myspace was enormous too and is pretty much a joke now.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
Haha, I laughed at this because it is so out of touch with reality.BigJimbo said:Facebook is for 45 year old Anglo women with one egg left and the young confused boys who love them. Seriously. Nobody is using that site anymore. Anyone who is anyone has moved on. Hell, even tumblr is so last year. I suspect the same people who use facebook now were the ones who were using myspace two years ago! LOSERS!
I for one would like to know how they are "partially taxpayer funded."Quiksilver said:Google, Youtube, and Facebook aren't going anywhere anytime soon. They are partially taxpayer funded so revenue streams aren't as important to those corporations.
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.