Let’s face it, online dating is becoming more popular. For instance, the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society found that as Internet use grows, Americans report spending less time in face-to-face interactions. 86% of college students are internet users. Technology is changing the world around us. Daily, couples are meeting online and exchanging e-mails, via chat rooms, newsgroups, instant messaging, and blogging. Anytime, day or night women are actively searching for amusement from a male companion. An abundant amount of women are now accessible through the world wide web. Because of the nature of the internet, dating has taken on new forms, and is played by different rules.
Courting a woman (singular) or attracting women (plural) no longer requires fancy clothes, cologne, a small gift, and a restaurant. Your ability to attract women is based off of your ability to strike an engaging conversation. Engaging topics, engaging questions, amusing comments, and witty humor are the essential qualities. Interestingly, I met a young woman in Barnes & Nobles book store a couple of months ago. She was deeply concentrating on her books and looked like she didn’t want to be disturbed. I saw her curriculum and noticed she was studying for med school, so I had to make contact with her. When I introduced myself as a college student passionate about learning, she opened up to me and began to talk. She was under a lot of stress from the pressure of exams and deadlines and wasn’t interested in a relationship, so instead of giving me her phone number, she gave me her e-mail address.
After e-mailing back an forth a few times she insisted that I subscribe to MSN Messenger so we could instant message one another (Hint: it is important to establish a personalized online text color like blue Arial or purple Times New Roman). After about a week of showing unrelenting interest she decided to take our seemingly trivial fling to the next level. She finally gave me her phone number and we had 30 minute conversations here, and 1 hour conversations there, and another 45 minute conversation here. The phone conversations was some sort of trust building fiasco where she was pretty much studying me and trying to get a sense of a predictable behavior pattern. Basically, cautious women want to know for sure that they are not about to go out on a date alone with a stranger who could be a complete psycho.
My college accent, scientific jargon, sophisticated vernacular, plus a mixture of colloquial slang was perfectly adapted to suit the med school student (formal language is NOT always appropriate). Fortunately, I’m linguistically gifted. Everything that came out of my mouth established my identity as a safe, trustworthy, and adventurous guy. She was the first one to propose that we go out on a date (Caution: an immediate request to “go out” may be met with disapproval and garnish a negative response). Our first date was really low key and inexpensive. We simply hooked up at the same Barnes & Noble book store, chatted for a while about stressing over school work, left to get ice cream, then took a walk around the busy shopping plaza and talked.
Our date lasted for three or four hours and we went our separate ways. That very same night we talked on the phone until sunrise. She simply would not let me get off of the phone. By the time it was 2 a.m. in the morning, the sexual tension was high. Our conversation went in all types of weird unpredictable directions. On our next date, a couple of days later, it was history in the making. My main point is, more and more people are starting relationships online. Myspace, Friendster, BlackPlanet, Facebook, SMS text messaging, ect, ect. College students especially use the internet as a tool to meet people. And as a tip, college students love diversity and are extremely open minded and are willing to try new things.
College students are curious, daring, and just broke the oppressive shackles of home life. Mom & Dad are no where around to supervise them so they have unlimited freedom and no inhibitions. The combination of an open curious mind and no parental supervision leads to endless possibilities. However, if you are planning to use the internet, you must have good words, a strong imagination, and know all the popular topics of conversation. Almost 60 percent of the American public have reported that they spend more time on the internet and less time with friends and family. People have finally found a way to meet people without immediately being judge on their looks. Although, webcams are becoming more popular…