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kcaz
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada387 Posts
June 16 2010 01:07 GMT
#1
I was just wondering if any of you TLnetizens have made an attempt at e-dating. I'm 18 in good athletic shape, don't smoke or do drugs, girls always tell me that I'm good looking n' such but I just can't find anyone in my day to day life and I'm considering giving it a shot. I'd really appreciate some advice/ past experience

Thanks
Kcaz

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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24715 Posts
June 16 2010 01:08 GMT
#2
Kennigit wrote a very long guide on it if he didn't remove it more recently...
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minus_human
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
4784 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 01:12:09
June 16 2010 01:11 GMT
#3
This was pretty good, thought the end was a bit dry

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8198559878970672169&hl=en#


Edit: that's Day[9] in case some of you are really noobs
Malgrif
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada1095 Posts
June 16 2010 01:39 GMT
#4
LOL, that was hilarious.
for there to be pro there has to be noob.
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 01:58:19
June 16 2010 01:56 GMT
#5
I've done it

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I've met a couple people, two of them are still my friends, and the other person I met was a really rich stuck up girl. I feel like there's a stigma that all the girls are fat and ugly. Although a LOT of them are, it is definitely possible to find attractive and interesting people.

My 2 cents.
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Mickey
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2606 Posts
June 16 2010 01:57 GMT
#6
On June 16 2010 10:56 Xeris wrote:
I've done it

Any advice?

I'm sure the OP would appreciate it.
eLiE
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada1039 Posts
June 16 2010 02:07 GMT
#7
Man, I don't think you need to resort to that at this age, especially if you're looking good. That being said, maybe you don't have too much to choose from (I'm in a nursing program right now and there are very few girls that I would be interested in, very upsetting). Idk, I think you're in no rush, but maybe a life change would help you out too, like getting a different job. Hey, but if you want to, go for it, I'd be curious to see the results for sure. The only problem I could see is that there would be few people in the late teens age on the site, because I always imagined it as late 20 and up.

I had some neighbours who met through online dating, they were married, and they had their cute first date story where the husband cut his head on some pullout bed and it sounded just like some commercial. They were probably in their mid to late 20s.
How's the weather down there?
TommyGG
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States142 Posts
June 16 2010 02:10 GMT
#8
just wait for college. anyone who is on an online dating site at 18 is on there for a bad reason
Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19447 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 02:16:49
June 16 2010 02:13 GMT
#9
I actively do online dating. It's fucking amazing. Heres my advice to you. The minimum age on most of these sites is 18 - i really wouldn't start it till you are like 20 minimum. As stupid as it sounds, the online dating scene is like - if you are younger than the girl, 5% chance of her replying (half the time they put a limiter so you cant even message them if you are younger depending on how hot they are) unless you are a baller....so you are limiting yourself to 18 year olds who are getting messaged by 22,23,24 year olds with jobs and higher baller status.

What you should do. Spend the next year absorbing every piece of information you can about it, then try. Don't expect any results at first. It took me about a year to get to a point where i can message girls and almost guarantee meeting them. You will fuck it up - a lot. Don't take it to heart, just try to learn what is wrong. Theres plenty of online dating resources - google them!
Korynne
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada990 Posts
June 16 2010 02:32 GMT
#10
I don't know if this works as well for a guy, but what I would try is to hang around someplace and play some MMORPGs (preferably not WoW) and just practice there for now. It's a good way to build up your confidence online and it takes the tension away from like okay we're all on this site to date so let's get going now.

My parents never really let me out of the house much, so I hung around online a lot (I played Ragnarok Online on a private server) and had quite a few sketchy online relationships over the years. It's... an interesting experience. However I've definitely noticed myself go from like being weird and awkward to practically being able to pick up any guy online and it mostly carried over to real life. I find myself a very self-aware kind of person though, so if you're not finding any luck and don't really get why then maybe you should talk to some people and ask for advice. Online's kind of a nice way to cheat where you can just save chat logs and have people read them after and give you advice. =P

On a separate note, why can't you find anyone in your day to day life? If it is because no one around you share the same interests (ex. if you' really really enjoy a hobby or a subject) then I would just wait for college/university to find someone. Though you could still "practice" before then so you don't miss out/screw up with on the perfect chick when you find her. =)

Umm.. I hope that helps? I don't think I was very organized in my thoughts but if you want specific advice on things or want to hear some stories shoot me a PM. xD
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Muirhead
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States556 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 02:36:52
June 16 2010 02:35 GMT
#11
My guess is that playing MMORPGs is not a great way to get girls :/

Maybe getting into ballet or something would be the male equivalent... TT
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Muirhead
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States556 Posts
June 16 2010 02:38 GMT
#12
Also why is everyone assuming this guy is in highschool? Could very well be a freshman in uni...
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kcaz
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada387 Posts
June 16 2010 02:42 GMT
#13
I'm working full time and play on 2 sports teams, so I have time for a girl but no time to meet one. And thanks so much for all the advice guys makes me appreciate this communitu to no end.
You can't emphasize enough how much you need to be a paradigm shifter. - Ma Jae Yoon
Korynne
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada990 Posts
June 16 2010 02:48 GMT
#14
If you think playing MMORPGs is not a great way to get girls then you don't know how to get girls in MMORPGs. =P

Me and my friend (who I later met in real life because we go to the same university) had loads of fun online seducing people (not intentionally persay). For him, I think the whole playing the guitar on vent thing really helped, but he just had the right kind of "nice guy" personality to pull it off.

I assume high school because it's summer and most people would be 19 by the time they are done 1 year of university.

Personally, I think meeting a girl takes less time than "maintaining" a girl, but that's cuz girls are fussy creatures (and I'm allowed to make fun of them because I am one xD).
TL Mawfyah~ http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/index.php?show_part=31
Sephy90
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1785 Posts
June 16 2010 02:53 GMT
#15
On June 16 2010 10:11 minus_human wrote:
This was pretty good, thought the end was a bit dry

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8198559878970672169&hl=en#


Edit: that's Day[9] in case some of you are really noobs

i'm currently listening to this now, and when he's like "i'm a geek how can i be sexy?" but really, if any girl were to see this video, i'm pretty sure they'd like day9 he is HILARIOUS!
"So I turned the lights off at night and practiced by myself"
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
June 16 2010 03:00 GMT
#16
Define what you mean be e-dating... There's the thing Kennigit wrote about, and then there's the thing people fly across the ocean for.
ModeratorNow I'm distant, dark in this anthrobeat
Korynne
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada990 Posts
June 16 2010 03:02 GMT
#17
On June 16 2010 11:53 Sephy69 wrote:
i'm currently listening to this now, and when he's like "i'm a geek how can i be sexy?" but really, if any girl were to see this video, i'm pretty sure they'd like day9 he is HILARIOUS!


Yeah I agree, Day[9] is pretty sexy, I'd totally go out with him if I was single. =P
TL Mawfyah~ http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/index.php?show_part=31
duckett
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States589 Posts
June 16 2010 04:04 GMT
#18
On June 16 2010 12:02 Korynne wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 16 2010 11:53 Sephy69 wrote:
i'm currently listening to this now, and when he's like "i'm a geek how can i be sexy?" but really, if any girl were to see this video, i'm pretty sure they'd like day9 he is HILARIOUS!


Yeah I agree, Day[9] is pretty sexy, I'd totally go out with him if I was single. =P

He's taken! =O

But there's the answer to the thread: be exactly like Day[9]. Better yet, pretend you are Day[9] and date random TL users who don't know better
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Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
June 16 2010 04:20 GMT
#19
I met someone super special online, but it wasn't through a dating site. Try looking around communities and forums that strike your interests (besides TL) and make some friends. I haven't had any personal experience with dating sites, but I would think that two people meeting online for the specific of dating wouldn't end up in a very satisfying relationship.
ZapRoffo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5544 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-06-16 04:46:27
June 16 2010 04:42 GMT
#20
On June 16 2010 13:20 Chairman Ray wrote:
I met someone super special online, but it wasn't through a dating site. Try looking around communities and forums that strike your interests (besides TL) and make some friends. I haven't had any personal experience with dating sites, but I would think that two people meeting online for the specific of dating wouldn't end up in a very satisfying relationship.


Same here (ut we aren't together because she lives across the country tt). You have to move away from the video game ones really because it's impossible to find a girl due to the gender disparity. A music interest focused one is a good idea.

So now I finally found someone who I really liked talking to on okcupid (which I recommend to people because it's free and easy to get started and has a pretty cool community), she got real busy with end of school semester, we start talking again a month or two later, and now she's moving away in a month. FML.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion man
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
June 16 2010 04:43 GMT
#21
go away kennigit ur gunna cause kids to go around e-creeping
why so 진지해?
sLiniss
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States849 Posts
June 16 2010 05:27 GMT
#22
On June 16 2010 10:11 minus_human wrote:
This was pretty good, thought the end was a bit dry

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8198559878970672169&hl=en#


Edit: that's Day[9] in case some of you are really noobs

OH MY....

that made me rofl
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
June 16 2010 05:47 GMT
#23
On June 16 2010 11:13 Kennigit wrote:
I actively do online dating. It's fucking amazing. Heres my advice to you. The minimum age on most of these sites is 18 - i really wouldn't start it till you are like 20 minimum. As stupid as it sounds, the online dating scene is like - if you are younger than the girl, 5% chance of her replying (half the time they put a limiter so you cant even message them if you are younger depending on how hot they are) unless you are a baller....so you are limiting yourself to 18 year olds who are getting messaged by 22,23,24 year olds with jobs and higher baller status.

What you should do. Spend the next year absorbing every piece of information you can about it, then try. Don't expect any results at first. It took me about a year to get to a point where i can message girls and almost guarantee meeting them. You will fuck it up - a lot. Don't take it to heart, just try to learn what is wrong. Theres plenty of online dating resources - google them!


I can definitely confirm what Kennigit said. When he made his blog post about online dating, I thought "fuck it why not try," and it's been about 7-8 months since I've been there and just in the past month my success rate has gone from about 10% to 90% in terms of getting responses from people and meeting people.

Other stuff... I've found that (I guess this could depend on location since you usually do searches for people by location) there aren't a LOT of attractive girls but there definitely are some, and I think Kennigit mentioned this in his blog but... make sure your initial message makes them laugh. If you send them a message and they laugh, you're practically 100% guaranteed to get a response back. If you follow up well, you're guaranteed to meet them.
twitter.com/xerislight -- follow me~~
DarthThienAn
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2734 Posts
June 16 2010 06:26 GMT
#24
Day9 so amazing lolol
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Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
June 16 2010 08:33 GMT
#25
I'm with Xeris

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For a few years I played free MMORPG's and in case you didn't know, a lot of them have insanely high female populations, close to 50-50 if not more girls than guys in some cases. I've had my fair share of online relationships, many were just me and some girl talking flirtaciously and things escalating really quickly. Those lasted a few weeks or a couple months, break up due to boredom more than anything, stay friends, whatever. I'm not oging to quit a video game that i've worked hard to get up to just because of a dead relationship.

What I can say is that I have met my partner in life online. She actually began to play the video game I did lol, we did everything together and pretty much reached the top of our server together. But we definitely didn't meet originally with the intent on dating, just like the best situations in a real life ordeal, it all builds from friendship and respect.

My advice is to make friendships online or in real life, and have them go from there, don't go into a situation with a girl with the intent on trying to date them, the best relationships come from something that builds up. Not something rushed in to
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