So at the moment I have a facebook account with about 200 friends and no pictures on it and no activity going on on my page.

Since Facebook these days has become the definitive way of showing you're a social person, I need to have a proper one. And I don't. And I'm basically at rock bottom - because my social circle isn't very big at all, and I don't have any pictures of my social life.

I've broken down people percieving how popular you are on facebook down to 4 things - the amount of friends you have, the amount of pictures you have and the quality of those pictures that show DHV and social proof, and how reguarly your page is commented on.

So how can someone with nothing, turn in to something? I'm starting university next year, but for the moment, it's very hard for me to start up new social circles, and the fact that I don't have facebook means girls percieve as an unsocial person. So I guess I'll have to wait til university and socialize like mad there and get a facebook setup then.

Any advice on how to go about making a facebook once I'm contacting more and more people at university? My game in general is quite good. But my social proof lets me down.

And for those with facebook - do you bring a camera to every social event and take DHV pictures with the people you're with? Isn't it kind of awkward busting out a camera and taking a picture of every one all the time?

Good questions. If your game is good, hit the streets and open some sets. Tell them you have a diary with looots of pics and ask them to take a pic together to put it in your personal diary. In Berlin I tried it and worked, never got a no.

Also the pics can show you doing stuff or show them your hobbies. Be interesting, show your room if it's nice or your car or whatever. Things you like. Can also be NICE food you prepared yourself.

If you have stuff going on: Comment on others. At least 30-40% will comment back for others to see.

Anyway keep on playin' mate!

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Hi, I need your female opinion on this...

Good idea, thanks.

But the thing is, people usually tag their photos with their names underneath. And if I just met sets, I'd have to get their facebook.

And when they look at my blank facebook with me having no friends, they'll think I'm a loser for having a photo of them on their and having nothing else on there.

But yeah I guess I could start it up like that, seems the only way.

Anyone else got any ideas?

Just make friends. They will see you have social proof anyway. Just say it's the first time u used it since registering. Oh and of course tell them that your friends pushed you to get it .

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Hi, I need your female opinion on this...

Firstly, your profile that gives information about you is minimally important. Status'/Wall/Pictures determine how much social proof you have on facebook. Take pictures with friends or family. Take a picture of yourself in a new getup and make it your profile pic. The absolutle worse thing on facebook is to not have any pictures of yourself. Start commenting on peoples walls, and status' and they will start commenting on yours. The DHV status list is a good tool for interesting status that will often generate comments. Meet new people, add them to facebook. Busting out a camera in front of friends is awkward for guys but for girls it is second nature, girls take pics of everything so taking a picture with a few will be no big deal. Good Luck!

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or you could leave facebook alone and just tell your chicks that your too fly for all that internet shizz

Hey man, I know exactly what you mean. I didn't even have a facebook until college anyways, and its really easy to add friends. One way to add a lot of friends fast is to go to a facebook event party, meet people there and then add people that were on the event list. This can get you up to 20 new people each event. At least that's how I got my count up. Another habit I've gotten into is to comment or make a wall post every time I get on facebook instead of just scrolling through pictures.

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a few quick tips:

Profile picture - it's best to have one from a random event, or doing something, just make sure it's not a creepy pasport-like image or a cam-ho pic.

add everyone. the strange guy you met last night, people from 4th grade, that guy your are not sure that you know, everyone.
if you are still looking for more people to add, browse groups with names like "add me to your friends list" you can also look for fake profiles (like those of famous people), add their friends (If you add too many facebook will alert you it's spamming). you may not know them, but who cares?


Carry a pocket cam with you, you can even use it to open sets. it ain't awkward, I still take a DSLR with me from time to time.

also, this
facebook-statuses-that-convey-value-dhv-vt56104.html


all in all, try to learn from users you think are "cool" (=high valued, I guess), the online sarging forum has plenty of profile-building help.

You can post links on Facebook for your friends to look at. If you occasionally post a cool link to a news article or something funny or a Youtube video you like, people will comment on it. It makes you look smart, funny AND popular all at the same time

I dabble in online marketing and have used social bookmarking sites as a medium for income multiple times.

FACEBOOK PROTIP: everyone has friends they dont know on facebook. alot of people that you have added do not know each other, but know you. they will never associate with others that you have on (unless ofc they are already friends)

simply create fake facebook accounts, steal images from the internet to use as friends, and add them to your friends. use them to comment on your own page, act like your being social (went out last week with the guys) etc etc.

kinda like a fantasy world. do it for a week or two and your facebook will liven up, that will give you a temporary boost of facebook social status (i say temporary cause face it, you dont want to do this forever or else your just being skitso) to allow you to get ACTUAL mingling to go on, then slowly kill off the fakes.

this works like a charm

Sweet, am going to try this

if your refering to what i said, the trick is to not get absorbed into it. you dont want to sit and ONLY have conversations with "yourself" ie fake profiles. bring up interesting things, link to interesting links, get other people interested. every time someone else comments (thats a real person) respond in kind to start a connection with that person (with your real profile of corse).

one of the mistakes I made early on was i just had conversations with my fake profiles and never branched it out to incorporate real people, at which point a month into it i still had no real people associating with me.

I just deleted my facebook and myspace... I used to do the majority of my gaming over myspace. I never got that deep into facebook but I noticed I was too into it and I wasnt being productive. I'm not saying you have to delete your account but don't put so much emphasis on it. Go out and meet some girls in real life!

Facebook is a tool. It's not a second world. And I think this is where lot's of people go wrong.

You don't have to throw it away. Just look at what you want to use it for and then do that. YES Facebook can be handy. YES it can work in your advantage, but you should not forget that facebook is not gonna get you laid directly.

Just balance it out but whatever happens don't take it too seriously.

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Hi, I need your female opinion on this...

Got the same problem, not really sure i like any of the solutions. But tbh, having a weak facebook won't hurt your chances with girls. I R-closed a HB8 with a facebook that has 10 pics, 200 friends, and little to no daily activity.

The one thing that I think makes up for unsocial facebook pages, is when the person in said page has 1-2 close friends listed under "brothers"