Snobbish Behavior of Women in Online Social Networks

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A couple of years ago, I joined MySpace (and earlier had joined TheFacebook.com, now just Facebook) to increase the likelihood of my meeting women since this wasn't happening much offline (actually, I was in college, so more properly, I should say the conversations I was having with women offline were leading no where). What I discovered is that, instead of feigning interest out of politeness, online, women don't even feel the need to say anything at all. I was hoping the text-based medium would compensate for my nonverbal deficits, but this has not turned out to be the case (after three years of scouring these online social networks for women).

Online dating is only useful for gays but barely useful for straight guys since girls don't need online dating to get a bf =) . You might only find hags online ....not to mention the female/male ratio

You're a detestable moron.

I'm talking about MySpace and Facebook, where most young people have accounts.

This is good; it encourages people to talk to you.

(I'm being sarcastic. )

No offense but LePetitPrince is not the kind of person I want to be talking to. His record for misogynistic posts and rampant cynicism adds nothing to the conversations he's participated in in this subforum.

Now I feel as if I should have just not said anything at all.

Actually he's right.
Girls online have proved to be both ugly and insanely rude; my girlfriend is the only exception I can think of now and she's not even from my country.
Either when sifting through each and every profile at online dating sites or having conversations in mIRC (or whatever) all I kept finding is herd mentality clichés and uglyness conspicuously beyond that which is seen offline - and the fact that online they'll blatantly ignore you or even insult you for ridiculous reasons. The low female/male ratio is absurd too and on top of that the male profiles are actually better (me being straight and all).

Yeah, dating sites are, quiet literally, a joke. Watch some stand up comedy.

How are you approaching these women? And what are your profiles like?

Also, you might have better luck with an actual dating site like OkCupid. The male/female ratio is still likely to work against you, but at least you know that everyone there is at least theoretically interested in dating someone they met online. The majority of Facebook/Myspace users probably aren't.

That's a despicable thing to say. I imagine that you are speaking from bitter experience, but maybe you need to reevaluate the way you treat people instead of putting it down to them being 'hags'.

Although it sounds like I have more social ability online than these people. I reply to people who begin a conversation with me [unless it's on a forum and I forget which thread it is in...].



The plural of anecdote is not data.

I agree that, if you are serious about dating online, you should try a site like OKCupid instead of MySpace and Facebook, where advances may not be always appreciated anyway.

While I think that the OP is a little off on some counts (myspace and facebook are just a place to leave messages for friends online, as well as the fact that I don't think LePetitPrince is a moron), he still makes one compelling point: Online dating is a crock of ****. I don't want the internets deciding who I should spend my time with.

Ooooo....you have just declared war on the wrong person ....may the heavens show you some mercy.
Btw,facebook and MySpace are not meant to be dating sites. If you try to approach women in these sites by sending them pms or writing comments on their profiles you would be seen by them as a stalker and this is a big turn off for girls,moron.




hehe....Look who's accusing me of being misogynist !!The potential rapist loser : http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt50580.html

Don't you think that his thread shows some mental instability? :-/

Last edited by LePetitPrince on 09 Dec 2007, 11:46 am, edited 4 times in total.

I can relate to that. The chat rooms were very quiet. They IMed me, I respond back and they never write back.

Go to a dating site, problem solved.

Been there, done that, I'm with TheMidnightJudge on this one. The quality of most online profiles is astonishingly low, there are many that just say 'ask me if you want to now more,' (as in, know anything about her) or those that list no interests at all. My favourite is one that lists as her (sole) interests, 'going out' and 'staying in.' She does not mention whether she likes standing in the doorway, the only possible alternative. Most profiles read like carbon copies of one another, fun and outgoing girl (loud and obnoxious?) up for a laugh who likes clubbing and shopping seeks a guy with a gsoh. The vast, overwhelming majority of the girls I have contacted (I have a pic, a filled-out profile and send a proper message and not just one-liners) simply never reply. Like irl, the guy has to do all the initiating (not just my experience, statistics from the sites themselves back me up on this one), but unlike irl there are vastly more guys looking for girls than girls looking for guys. Basically, if you're a straight guy, online dating is just about the worst way of looking for someone.

well, one generalization I like to make about women, is never generalize about women...

It's like the old Willie Sutton line (why do your rob banks, Willie?...'cause that's where the money is..
Go to where people are actually dating, or trying to. I had a spell between my last marriage and the present one, and went to some clubs. While there, I spent a lot of time observing the situation (instead of actually getting out there and trying to pick up someone....d'oh!.., and I seemed to see that women want choice. When they outnumbered men, no one danced. It was only when they were outnumbered themselves that things started moving.

Whether it's custom, or sociobiology, there may (or may not) be a tendency for women to be 'picky' about who gets the invite home. Sadly enough, you have to get stiffed by a lot of princesses before you get to your happily ever after. It's a big reason I wound up marrying someone from an online chat room (since defunct). Stranger things have happened.