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OkCupid the internet dating website
Brolo
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A quick refresher:
A HANDY, MILDLY CHAUVINISTIC GUIDE TO THE WORLD OF ONLINE DATING (FOR BOYS)
Signing up is easy!
Really having a funny name isn't so bad.
Okcupid will send you a fair amount of mail by default, so you might want to avoid using your work email.
Once you sign up with your account you have to fill out a bunch of forms and personal information. A general tip - turn off "Casual encounters" (even if you only want casual sex), and if you smoke weed (but don't do other drugs), simply leave drugs as N/A instead of 'does drugs sometimes'.
Pictures are pretty important! You want people to think that you are a cool-looking guy, no matter how sad and crushed you are on the inside. To avoid looking like a creepy uggo-face, here are a few easy pointers.
Smile in your pictures! Rap faces are mad fierce, but girls usually respond better to 'friendly and approachable'.
Use pictures of you taken by someone else. Don't take self-portraits of you, alone, in an empty room. Show the world that you have friend(s), and include shots of you being outdoors, with people, doing something social and fun.
Turn your head a little. Don't go for the full-on mug shot. It makes it really easy to spot the asymmetrical aspects of your face, as well as making you look like you want to rape the viewer.
Warm colours can really help you. This is another good reason not to take pictures with a webcam, since they tend to give very cold, grainy pictures.
Once you sign up and answer a few dozen questions you can try finding matches near you. These matches will inevitably end up being hipster girls. This is okay! Many hipster girls are only hipster girls on the internet, where it is much less effort.
You may want to limit your searches based on 'last logged in' and 'joined within' date ranges. People who have been on OKcupid for a really long time tend to check and respond to their mail less frequently, and reject people more quickly. This is doubly true for women, who get viewed and messaged several times more often than men do.
While we try not to judge entirely based on appearances, it is true that some people do not like fatties. To spot a fatty, look out for trademark 'myspace angles' (no body shots, only headshots taken from a camera 45 degrees above the subject), and jowls. Jowls never lie.
While trying to look for girls who list "polyamory" or "casual sex" as their interests might seem like an easy way to get sexual attention if you're especially desperate, realize that there are many, many men out there that are more desperate and more pathetic than you on the internet, and any girl with that in her profile is probably lambasted several times an hour with smarmy come-ons. Most likely both of you can do better.
Don't send Winks. They're lazy and largely ignored. A real message is much more effective. OKcupid instant messenger doesn't seem to work particularly well, so after a few mails back and forth you might want to exchange AIM/MSN information, and pursue things from there. If everything is going well over instant messenger, why not ask her out to dinner? Don't be too afraid - she's on here in order to meet people. Show her you're better than those miserable faggots in H/A.
My profile is mr_arcade, you can find me and other Social Entropy people by adding seplusplus to your profile. Good luck to you all!
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Don't use netspeak ever.
Be specific. And uh, play in a metal band?
Only godless heathens use internet dating.
Men are afraid of hot women! That's silly! Message the hottest girls you see!
Amazingly the longer your message is, the better it seems to do.
EVERYONE IS A RACIST BUT ESPECIALLY VIV WHY DO YOU HATE BLACK PEOPLE HUH VIV
If you are over 23 and you make less than 40K, probably a good idea not to list that in your profile.
Men still fall for myspace angles
Women still like topless men (provided they're not fat)
Men never stop liking titties.
go to hell okcupid
wait there are no black people here
what if the internet wants to make out with you though
Wear a condom
you don't actually make 40k
you just inflate it for the purposes of posting online
meeting a girl from there on Thursday, nervously excited
How many hot dickings have you gotten out of OkCupid?
from 2008 I think
Like, they said that they like zombies? Or that they are zombies? Did they just put down "zombie"?
the girl I'm about to see claims that she gets around 10 a week from local people
Surprisingly little dick off of OkCupid, actually. For some reason I only meet girls online, and guys in real life.
Or use a dental dam. French kissing, alien-probe style.
brisa needs laces
Just messages with those keywords in it. Messages with the word "zombie" in them tend to get 10% more replies than the average message.
nothing every really turned out, but hey whatever
also, I got a date tomorrow from some cute nerd chick on pof tomorrow
Some of it seems to be kinda random (like if you're 20 you're good if you make 40K, bad if you make 50K, but good again if you make 60K), but the rest of it just seems like people might not believe you if you tell them you're 19 years old and making $80 000 a year.
I'm guessing 1 hour (he's probably not awake yet)
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i assume the word movies follows the word zombie in many of those cases
who likes "zombies"
that's like saying your favorite hobby is magnets
all it's missing is de?ad
include topless photos
I went out on two okcupid dates this weekend
tl;dr hickies
Hopefully, the actual meeting people comes soon.
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