In my opinion, there’s something that TRP needs to give more attention to

Ant1matter8 · 2019-09-05T22:21:23+00:00

Don't agree.

Obsession about social media is imo a sign of insecurity. I don't bother with social media and i don't care if people think it's important/neccessary, their problem.

Think about it, shit being posted on social media is the most irrelevant stuff you can find, there is just no value to it, it's a circle jerk of insecure fucktards

Sheep gonna sheep.

doublecup__ · 2019-09-05T21:55:16+00:00

The stance on social media is basically: if you can use it properly, go for it (but most people can't).

TRP acknowledges that social media helps if and only if you have cool shit to post. The problem is that the whole point of social media is to make people CONSUME content from other users and most people end up using it this way instead of building up their own profiles to show off their awesome lives. This means the average joe ends up wasting his time, giving free validation to random thots and not building his own profile.

You are very likely to be written off as a guy my age without an instagram page

Wrong. You're acting like it's a necessity when its really just a bonus.

Also idk why you mentioned texting when your whole post was about social media, but there's really no benefit to texting outside of logistics. Texting gives you more chances to kill attraction and virtually no chances to build it.

AloofusMaximus · 2019-09-05T23:02:18+00:00

Social media is literally the realm of women. I have virtually no social media footprint (don't have IG, or Twitter). I haven't made a post on FB in YEARS, and I can count the number of snaps I've ever sent on one hand. It's never hindered me from success with women (even ones I've pulled THROUGH social media)

Wonder why you have 3s and 4s thinking they deserve Chad... It's cause of social media (they get free attention from thirsty virgins and incels).

Now I'm not saying don't use it at all. It's certainly a way to pull, but most dudes use it like women.

idontmiind · 2019-09-06T07:46:18+00:00

you've got too much time on your hands to be thinking up bs like this

L3onard3 · 2019-09-05T22:52:54+00:00

Virtual attention is like credit...in person attention is cash.

HurricaneHugues · 2019-09-06T00:54:49+00:00

"Now before you all spam the downvote button just hear me out for a minute, as an18 year old I believe that Social Media is absolutely imperative to have if you’re under the age of 25 if you want to be successful in the sociosexual marketplace."

According to who? With what army? From what galaxy? People said the same thing about social media when I was growing up too. It's all bullshit.

Your peers want you to believe that you need social media to be successful socially, but that's only because they're too afraid to be without it and they fear being outlasted. So they project that fear on you.

Social media existed since you were still shitting yourself. We had AIM, MSN, Hi5, MySpace etc. If you didn't have tons of contacts you weren't considered "cool". Unless off course you get busy in your personal life and have a bunch of interesting things about you that makes you really confident. A confidence you project in your walk and attitude. A confidence they can't deny. But then it creates this cognitive dissonance in their minds because technically you're not "cool" since you don't have an online presence, but they can't deny in their primal brains that you walk the walk and talk the talk of a cool dude. That is when they start getting curious about you; the one nobody really knows anything about but can tell you have stuff going on for you. And once you have them curious, you have them approaching you to quench their curiosity. And once they're approaching you about you, they're playing by your rules. They're in your world.

Fromstatepharm · 2019-09-06T05:07:20+00:00

You don’t need social media. If anything it could work against you if you don’t have a lot of followers and who gives a damn about trying to get more people to like you.

Praexology · 2019-09-05T22:50:33+00:00

Now before you all spam the downvote button just hear me out for a minute, as an18 year old I believe that Social Media is absolutely imperative to have if you’re under the age of 25 if you want to be successful in the sociosexual marketplace.

Disagree. I have an old picture of myself and my sister on FB that I use almost exclusively for work and sending funny pictures to friends, a fake meme page on insta and a Twitter with no important posts which hasn't been posted on since 2012 yet still have girls come on to me unprompted.

This is something I am of course unhappy about but it is simply just the way it is, we live in a digital world, and bitches are glued to this stuff 24/7. You are very likely to be written off as a guy my age without an instagram page, as a guy without one, I can confirm this.

Aka you are so low value that you are written off without a second glance and you are attributing it to social media because you're scared it could be your body, your social skills, or your [whatever else]

As we all know, a bad Instagram is worse than no instagram, so I think as a community we could shift some focus on how to build up a good IG page to display high value and all that jazz, again I wish it wasn’t this way but it just is, gotta know how to adapt if you want to survive.

'Display high value' ? Girls do this by taking titty shots. The saying "new money screams old money whispers" applies to fake masculinity vs true masculinity. You are focusing too much on what others think of you and are defining yourself by an arbitrary metric... also sounds like you are making pussy your goal, living in a nonexistent woman's frame. Yikes.

At the time of writing this I’m considering rejoining that whole shitshow, but I don’t want to go in blind, are there any (preferably younger) dudes who are well experienced in this particular arena who have any pointers to give a guy?

Do what you want. If you wanted to not waste your time then why not just join a group focused on a hobby. Girls like guys that give them small morsels of attention instead of the whole loaf. It's easier to be less of a beta when there is something other than your raging micropenis to focus on.

holeintheceiling · 2019-09-05T23:15:34+00:00

I find this true with texting. “Only text for logistics” makes sense but I think it’s a bit limiting.

Sickem_roy · 2019-09-05T23:27:01+00:00

There are other ways to demonstrate value. If a chick won’t fuck you because she can’t find your Insta she wasn’t into you, you’re not IT enough.

Snowboard18 · 2019-09-06T01:07:31+00:00

Don’t go on social media too much but when u do post things that show that your life is fun.

brk51 · 2019-09-05T21:47:53+00:00

I made the decision about 2 years to post what I want. So I post comedic shit and other stuff I find funny. Not just memes, but very non-standard pics of me.

Literally had sex with some girls because they think its sexy I post what I want. Its ridiculous but hey it works for me.

Title	In my opinion, there’s something that TRP needs to give more attention to
Author	RP_Throwaway_4U
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Date	September 5, 2019 9:35 PM UTC (4 years ago)
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