Quote: (08-22-2018 09:17 AM)Irish Wrote:
Quote: (08-21-2018 04:07 PM)AlwaysTired Wrote:
Social media isn't going away anytime soon, why not just beef up your profile and use it to your advantage? Demonstrate you have an active life. That you associate with higher value people, and party with attractive girls/follow your passion. Most people fuck this up, so I don't blame social media for having negative shade in the pickup community.
Most FB/IG haters in the pickup community are haters because they don't have an active life, they don't associate with higher value people and they most certainly don't party with attractive girls.
Hence the need to hide behind a long, hard thought out witty response to try hide from the fact that the only reason they don't have social media is because they've nothing to put on it
First, let's recognize this question for what it is, a shit test. And just like any shit test. There's more than one way to pass it. She holds a stick out and says, "jump over the stick." You can either jump over it or walk around it and give her a wet willy. Chicks will continue to create new shit tests. It's communities like this that help men evolve responses to them.
Second, let's understand why the girl is asking this question. She's interested, but not yet sold (
i.e. kicking the tires). She's testing your mettle. Or put more charitably, she's giving you an opportunity to shine. One way to do this is to have a top 10% Instagram account (an option that is not available to 90% of men, by the way). The other is to defy the whole premise of the shit test.
Third, let's call bullshit on the if you're not on social media, you're not legit. That's a chick mentality. Plenty of men avoid social media for a variety of reasons. One is that our tech overlords hate us, and some men want to avoid feeding that beast. Another is privacy, whether for career or family, some men don't want to distribute pictures of themselves to the entire world. And some men would rather enjoy the sunset than take a selfie in front of it.
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Fourth, the shit test has evolved since I first started this thread. It's not "What's your Instagram?" not "Do you have Instagram?" This means that the starting premise has shifted to having Instagram as the default. So that answers like "No, I'm an adult" might not work as well as they once did.
Finally, to all the Instagram wizards, if Lord Zuck personally banned you from Instagram, do you think you could still pull tail? Or would you react like this girl?