Online Game Notes
How to Meet Women Online
! ! I. Mistakes Most Guys Make ! ●Telling their entire life story ! ●Showing off too much ! ●Seeming desperate and needy ! ●Being too generic/not standing out ! ●Sending her long messages ! REMEMBER: This is not a substitute for approaching women in real life ! ! ! II. Mindset ! ●Screening women ! ●A complete joke / not taking it seriously –Free sites only
! ●Playful and funny ! ! ! III. So many sites to choose from ! ●Dating sites –Paid, unpaid, niche, new
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●Social networking sites –Facebook, *country specific*
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●Forums –She loves to do something, you love to do something, so why not do it together
! ●Couchsurfing.org !
IV. FREE VS PAID
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●Free –Some women are on their just for validation –Tends to be a younger crowd –You might as well do it because its free –Top sites: Plenty of Fish, OK Cupid
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●Pay –Women are more serious about finding someone –More women looking for a relationship –Tends to be older crowd –Top sites: Match, eHarmony
! ! ! V. Learn about the competition ! ●Set up a fake page ! ●See things from her eyes ! ●See what kind of message most guys are sending her ! ! VI. Things to watch out for ! ●Photoshopped pics ! ●Weird angles ! ●Only head shots ! ●Old pics ! ●Get her # if necessary and have her text you a recent pic ! ! ! VII. Basics ! ●Use “single” instead of “divorced” ! ●Use “not looking for intimate encounters” !
●Never check mark “looking for a relationship” or “looking for friends with benefits”
! ●Keep it short ! ●Stand out! ! ●Secret: Edit your profile often to stay at the top of the searches ! ! ! VIII. Pictures ! ●No pics with your shirt off or trying to impress (even if you have a nice body) ! ●No headshots ! ●Main profile pic should be something she has to click on (not a close up) !
●Action shots are the best –On stage, traveling, leading a group, with friend (including girls), with cute animals
! ●Post on www.hotornot.com ! ●Use the best photo as your main pic ! ! ! IX. The Headline (or username) ! ●Tall, dark and blah blah blah ! ●The guy your mom warned you about ! ●I can keegle 180 ! ●I want your money ! ●I’m kind of an a-hole !
●No X! –X = strippers, psychos, blondes, cocktail waitresses, etc.
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●Yo, U wanna make a baby?
! ●Lets rob a bank… ! ●NOTE: Match.com uses 13 character usernames ! ! ! X. About Me Section !
●Screening –“Not fond of the bar scene guess I’m just seeing if there’s anyone out there that breaks the [city you live in] mold. Please do not message me if you are a stripper, cocktail waitress, vergo, gemini, or if you’ve had plastic surgery” –I love talkative outgoing women…..but that doesn’t mean you can call me 50 times a day! –No psychos weirdos or stage five clingers!
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●Not taking it seriously –“I don't feel like typing a long paragraph…so here are some emoticons that might describe me:
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and this is the kind of girl I'm looking for:
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interpret that as you like. i honestly don't go on this site a lot...but send a message and we can talk about princesses and glitter”
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●Playful / funny
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–“I want a woman to crap out at least 10 kids in the next 3 yrs so I can start a child work factory like the ones in Beijing.
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–“Don’t even try to message me if you’re just another one of those overly horny perv chicks cruising the internet looking for innocent guys to take back to their sex lair and take advantage of”
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–“If you think you’ll have any thoughts of grabbing the knife and letting loose on my little…ehhhm I mean big friend when I’m sleeping after our first fight….then let me say this: the mental hospital is not the same as my home address.”
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●Funny movie quotes
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–“I know that YOU and I are gonna to get married on top of a mountain, and there's going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And we will dance till the sun rises. And then our children will form a family band. And we will tour the countryside and you won't be invited!”
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XI. Interests
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●List a few “real” things (2 or 3) –“playing drums, teaching lectures, travelling to India, astrology, cool guy stuff”
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●List a “joking” thing –“Riding unicorns through cartoon Pleasure Town” –“Brittney Spears back when she was bald (bald chicks are hot!)” –“Reading the bible written in the ancient Aramaic language (I like a challenge)”
! ! ! XII. First Date (Plenty of Fish) !
●Cocky –“You would take me out for lobster, then I would do all the things to you that the last guy was too much of a wuss to do”
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●Screening –“Meet for a drink somewhere low key and public. That way if your crazy I can fake an excuse like I have go home and walk my turtle. Hopefully my turtle likes you or you’re gone!”
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–“We’d fly to Vegas and get married by the fattest Elvis impersonator we could find (with Minnie Me as the ring bearer of course) then divorce the next day and take half your money”
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–“We'd go to party city and buy masks, then steal a car from the parking lot and drive it to BofA. we'd then disable the senior citizen security guard [without killing him because underneath this tough exterior, i still have a heart] and then proceed to rob everybody blind, and make the old ladies take
off their jewelry. We'd go in and out really fast [not a sexual innuendo] before the cops get there. Then we’d get a room at a cheap motel in the next city over and throw the money in the air and roll around in it while having crazy sex fueled by the rush of the crimes we just committed...then you would wake up the next morning finding me...and the money nowhere to be found!"
! ! ! XIII. Editing Your Profile ! ●Cut out anything that does not help you attract YOUR type of woman ! ●Remove anything that could be misinterpreted in a negative way ! ●Trim the fat: what can you say in less words? ! ! ! XIV. Contacting Women Online ! ●Don’t worry if she doesn’t respond ! ●Don’t give up !
●Canned –Subject: “Are you one of those girls…” Body: “…who takes forever to do her hair and makeup or does it just look that way?” –Subject: “You look like trouble” Body: “Reading your profile I think your like an 75% match, not sure if you can handle the other 25%” - Subject: “I'm gonna be super original....” Body: “…and say "hi". Don't read too much into that. In fact, I'm just not sure if this is gonna work out anymore. I feel like things are just moving too fast. Its not you its me.”
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●Situational –Subject: “you look like…” Body: “…your sitting on a pooper in that pic lol”
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–Subject: “hair” Body: “Cool hair…are you wearing a wig or is real?”
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●Viewed Me –Subject: “Huh!? What!? Really!?”
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Body: “So you checked me out but didn’t msg me huh, what not sexy enough for ya!…omg I’m so heart broken…I’m just gonna to cuddle up on the couch watching reruns of The Hills while eating ice cream out of the carton and painting my toenails pink. No seriously, your probably just shy… its ok I won’t bite…or will I?”
–Subject: “you can’t just…” Body: “…stop by my page without at least saying “hi” that’s minus 2-points! (btw it takes 10 cool points to get my number…you have a lot of making up to do)”
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! XV. Follow Up Message !
●Be a challenge –“What do you have going for yourself other than your looks?” –“You seem pretty normal (surprising) What’s your story (in 30 words or less)?” –“Make it or break it question…..X” ●X = favorite band, ninjas or pirates, etc. –“Wow checking out your page you actually look like you have a good head on your shoulders, which is getting harder to find these days. So what’s the catch?” - Tell me something cool about you I wouldn’t know from reading your profile.
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! ! ! ! XVI. Getting Her Number !
●Just throw it out there –“My fingers are getting tired from typing all day and I actually don’t want to associate work with emailing you. Give me a ring. 555-555-5555 block your # if you want”
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●Don’t ask –“You know what, you seem pretty cool…lets exchange numbers and if you’re cool on the phone maybe we’ll hang out….do you text?”
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●Chat first
–“Hey I’m not on here much…just heard about this crazy new fad called facebook. Doubt it’ll catch on. What’s your fb name?” (use facebook chat)
! ! ! XVII. She Doesn’t Write Back !
●"I feel like your ignoring me. this is not the way to maintain a health relationship ;-). I'm gonna have to break up with you. so, I'm gonna need all of my CD's back. and i don't know what we are going to do about "Peanut" (the puppy i bought you for your birthday last year). I've grown attached to the little guy. maybe we can work out some sort of joint custody arrangement. i should have known this was going to happen. i mean you are way to high maintenance for me anyway. i don't know how your last boyfriend put up with it. lol, oh i crack myself up sometimes....haha. anyway, i know you haven't found someone more fun to talk to, so hit me back.”
! ! ! XVIII. Assignments !
a. Make an online profile if you don’t already have one. The best free sites are www.okcupid.com and www.plentyoffish.com. Use the guidelines from the lesson. b. Post 5 – 8 pictures of yourself on www.hotornot.com. Use the pictures that are rated the highest on your online profile.
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c. Make a fake female profile to get to know the competition. Use a free dating site to make a fake female profile so you can see what other guys are doing and learn what not to do.
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d. Send out 5 messages a day using your online profile. e. Approach 1 “real” woman a day (7 per week).
