Texting/Messaging is a little less personal at first and easier to engage in by both parties. Kind of like the anonymity of the internet, in a way it is like a mask for people, possibly people like me who take some time to open up or are a bit shy at first.

Kind of fits here.



My friend and his wife went to Times Square for NYE and are playing long distance match-maker for me apparently.

Wouldn't be too bad of a thing if the girl was coming back home to Arizona, but she lives in Atlanta. :icon14:

Still, texting it is.




Which I'm grateful for, because my buddy and this girl text me at like 11:45-midnight and I'd have been pissed if my phone range, because someone was calling me. :mad:

:iagree: The anonymity of the internet is amazing for meeting new people.

Yea, this is I get for slacking the past 2 years. So far met 3 girls of various age. The youngest one was just a lot of fun to talk to, so she pretty much made it easier for me to let go. The next two are tough. I already blew it with one. The last is fun to talk to, outgoing, but takes a while to warm up.

From texting I realize I can't carry a normal direct conversation. It has to be short blips of words of random stuff to get her attention. I don't know. I get advice left and right. Basically I try my best not to come off desperate.

So far when meeting complete strangers, I can get her number. That doesn't mean she's interested, so I have to somehow build it. I'm OK with that since I rather not rush, but when she isn't communicating as much it's tough. I wouldn't give up till she tells me she has absolutely no interest. So far I'm getting FZ, but I think I can try to play my cards carefully with the remaining one. Still looking for variety in the mean time.

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my wife is half pinoy and she said she refuses to date other pinoys because of their wana be thug attitudes they always have. Shes half white but she said no way to them. Im white so go fig. Im still pretty gangsta though:)

Haha. Nice. The one I'm chatting with is part Viet. She's fairly outgoing so it balances my mellow side. Who knows... Fun to chat with for now.

I'm not quite 30 (only 26) and still single. Never have really had a "serious" relationship. Just lots of random couple week long flings. My longest has been maybe 4 months. Kind of pathetic but I think it's all me. I'm super picky and always find something wrong with the girl I'm talking to and kind of just stop talking to her.

Tried online dating for the last two years, met some really crazy girls and some really cool ones. The ones that I actually liked ended up friend zoning me. Yes, I'm the typical nice guy. I don't feel the need to change that though.

Recently I've given up on online dating and have just been more focused on myself. I've actually met 3-4 chicks in the past month but I don't know that I'm going to persue any of them.

Sorry if this didn't add anything of value to the conversation, just wanted to share what's going on in my life.

MGTOW high five

Not gonna lie, I had to look that one up lol. But thanks.

:tup:

:iagree: obscure.. :icon08:

I'm 28 in a few days and still single and have no intentions on dating or marrying anytime soon. I'm too "do it my way" and independent to compromise as much and as often as a typical relationship requires to work, I recognize this, and motor on.

Interesting, indeed. I talked to a friend who works in my building. He purchased a house 3 years ago, and he's also in the same situation. I've been living alone in my new house for about 1.5 years now, and this is getting old. The elders keep telling me to go to Vietnam to find someone, and there's a small pool of girls I'm not too crazy about. Meh. I'm not that desperate.

The particular girl I'm talking to is a little young (22 soon), but she's very outgoing. She briefly attended my NYE party, and she quickly socialized and played beer pong with my friends. For awhile I thought she knew some of them. She works a lot, so I have to pace myself with texts and whatnot. It's a bit of a challenge to talk to her via text/phone since she either takes awhile to respond or it is brief. Unless we're planning something, I try not to send her more than 2-3 texts a day. In person, she's quite fun to talk to. We're going on a little dinner date tomorrow. :)

Right now I'm overthinking things because I've been FZ'd so many times, so I'm constantly watching my step. It's like playing Minesweeper. Click on the wrong tile, and I get FZ'd. Haha!

LoL. Nice analogy Digi. Good luck!

Texting is ok. I prefer texts to phone calls any day for small snippets. Some women prefer voice calls, though, so I just have to change as needed.

Actual messaging is still king amongst non-face-to-face conversation (Skype/web cam chat is a strange hybrid) for me. I love talking in IM to someone, though I do it far less than I used to. You can really get close to people by talking online and sharing feelings/thoughts/interests. It's far easier for almost everyone than in person.

The exception being someone who can't write very well at all, and thus can't properly communicate via written words. Granted, that is plenty of people, but those aren't people I tend to be around even in person...

I can usually tell when I'm not going to get along with someone in person by some extended conversations via IM.

I just honestly don't see why people are so bent on getting married. It sounds like you feel peer pressured more than anything. Being single has some amazing benefits, as does being married, I am sure. Just live your life and let those chips fall how they will and don't worry about it, is my philosophy.