So I've been playing around with Facebook lately as the latest toy, and was just perusing random peoples profiles (yeah yeah, stalker) but I've never been the type to just message random people, even if they sound interesting or their profile indicates they might have something in common.

However, on Orkut I had quite a few people do so from time to time, so I'm curious - who here tends to message random people they dont know, and why? Met (or dated) anyone interesting short or long term as a result of doing so at all?

How about the other way around? Do you just consider people to be freaks when they message you seemingly randomly, or are you okay with it?

Stories? Discuss :)

nope feels stalkerish

i predict major sociological/pyschological problems for the myspace generation. look forward in about 20 years for studies of the damage online communities will have done to inter-personal skills and relationships.

If I see someone i'm really interested in, i'll have no trouble messaging them. I've made a few friends/girlfriends off the internet, and once you get to know them they cease to be an "internet" person.

Anyway, how is it any different to approaching random girls in a club?

yep i've met chicks off the internet, hell that hot chick burgz saw me with a few weeks ago i met from the internet :]

just think there are certain places for that, myspace or facebook not being one of them

that said, nothing beats meeting chicks the old fashioned way

add them all to your spam list

I've met loads of people off the internet, usually from forums though.

That being said, every single person had something "wrong" with them. Take QGL for example, now people here have some serious skeletons.

messaging randoms is f***ed up yo

The trick to running a good creep is learning to 'up your stock'.

At the start creep up a few hood rats and see what you can get a comment roll going. Find an angle by either portraying yourself as a bad ass, a car guy, a rock star, some art fag or whatever. Don't try to get anyone liking you for yourself because remember we are after hood rats here (which you don't want anyways) and gettin down with a slut infested subculture is easy business with skillful photography. You can ditch these pics and replace them once you've got a bit of a ho train running.

Once you have a few commenting you then creep up some which are a bit hotter than your current crop. Then once you have a have a few of them trade up again. Rinse, repeat. If one hot girl sees another hot girl after you will be A-OK. If she feels like the only one talking to you then you will appear creepy. Once you have lots of hotties and are high flying you need to cull the hood rats so you look like you have standards.

Happy space ranging


last edited by Nitro at 23:17:57 20/Aug/07

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tayf you seem like you've done this before.

any results?

retrograde wheelborrow? wtf is that. pics plz :P

You can't read someone's facebook profile without being their friend.

You can't read someone's facebook profile without being their friend.

yeah you can - if you are in the same network

and it's not hard to join a network

I thought you could turn off your profile for viewing?

I thought you could turn off your profile for viewing?

yeah you can, but by default anybody in your network can view it and as someone said you can join networks pretty easily

hahhahaha nitro you freak

thats awesome

random messaging = freaks

haha awesome comic

Nitro is gay.

let me know if you land a dentist

please add me on facebook so we can chat and its not freaky

don't lie, it gets a bit freaky sometimes.

ok, it will be less freaky

but don't tone it down too much, i kinda like it.

just think there are certain places for that, myspace or facebook not being one of them

I'm curious as to what you think the purpose of a SOCIAL NETWORKING site is, if not for meeting new people :P

Just add randomz from myspace etc.... then go clubbin and random chicks come up to you and say i know you from mypsace.... booom your in!!!

yeah i guess, i just see it as a friends thing i suppose

it's good to add new chicks you meet out to myspace etc, you can learn a little about them

lol i might look into it

chicks mate chicks

nah its not on dont do it you fagets

social networking sites told me its jmr's birthday today!

If I see someone i'm really interested in, i'll have no trouble messaging them. I've made a few friends/girlfriends off the internet, and once you get to know them they cease to be an "internet" person.

I met both my current gf and my ex through the internet. ^_^

way to ruin meeting people on the intarwebs clinty

i learnt my lesson when i met redhat on the intarweb

ITS NOT ALL BEER AND SKITTLES KIDS

They say it's your birthday, it's my birthday too yeah!

*air guitar*happy jig*