Okay, so aside from Facebook or dating sites, are there any other places to practice online? I was thinking about chat rooms, but I don't see any post on that. Are there any good chatrooms for practicing? Which ones are best for practice? Seems like a lot of them have mostly guys in them.

I have noticed that every time someone sends me a private message in a chat room that it always ends up being a guy thinking I'm a girl. So I started making sure that I use a name that is clearly a males so nobody's confused. That keeps most guys from sending me private messages.

But, I noticed that girls in chat rooms are the same as in the real world, they wait for you to start the conversation. I don't think I've ever had a girl send me a private message in a chat room. So I guess you just have to wait until you can find something to say to them.

I have noticed that when I get a private message from a guy, the first thing they usually say is, "asl please" (which means age, sex, location). I know they just want to find this information out quickly so they don't waste their time, but it doesn't seem to me to be a very good opener. Saying "asl please" is like saying "just give me the facts woman". I can imagine a lot of woman getting turned off by that.

What if instead you just used a situational opener having something to do with something that she said in the chat room. You know, connect with her first. Anybody got any tips here?

I realize chat rooms probably aren't the best place to pick-up women, but that's not what I'm doing. I'm just interested in practicing being social because I'm really introverted.

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Actually, I personaly believe practicing online and in chatrooms can greatly boost your confidence (and help you memorizing openers and routines).

I would recommend Second Life, which is a 3D virtual world, with clubs, bars... etc (and is free).

Check out this series of articles about running game on second life: http://www.onlinepua.com/p/second-life.html

Chatrooms aren't going to help you with that. Believe me, I know from personal experience. You'll be open and social in a chatroom or forum, but when you get out into society, you'll be the same introverted person.

If you want a relaxed environment to practice, I highly recommend a supermarket like Wal-Mart. I've had more fun social interactions in places like that than at parties. You may be the same way, try it out.

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The thing about places like Wal-mart is that I hardly ever have a reason to go. I don't need anything there. I have gone before and just walked around pretending like I'm shoping for a thing or two. I mean you could walk around like your looking for something or somebody all the while your real intentions is to look for attractive girls.

You could even have some canned situational openers prepared for different parts of the store. If you see her in the shampoo isle for example, you could pretend like your looking for a good shampoo. You could then open her by asking if she knows of any shampoos that don't make your hair fall out. Because after all some of them do.

I'm just not good at conversation in general yet, that's why I wanted to practice in chat rooms or something first. In the above example, I wouldn't know what to say next after the opener. Someone definitely needs to start a new thread on Wal-mart game so everyone can share their tips.

As for Second Life. I thought it was pretty cool. Thanks for that Jackson. Do you have any tips you want to share with us from your learned experience on there?

I know what people say about practicing online: it's not the same thing as doing it in the real world, your timing is off, it's a waste of time... etc

Personaly, practicing on Second Life has really improved my game in several subtle ways.
- It has helped me memorize routines and openers
- It has boosted my confidence greatly, simply through ensuring I felt I had done something to prepare for the real thing, rather than being thrown in at the deep end
- It has made me look at girls in a different way: once you've had cam sex with 100 girls or so, none of them seem so special anymore... You stop caring and focusing on the one girl, and are willing to let go, which gives you great aura in your interactions.

As for tips:
There are lots of tips specific to Second Life in the articles I linked to, and I'd suggest you take the time to read them before you start on SL

Also, my strong advice would be to aim to get the girls on voice or webcam: in many ways, this is actually harder than F-closing in normal life, because of the fear she might be recorded and end up on a porn site.
Then treat the 2 interactions as separate: as soon as you got the girl onto SPAM or msn, run some routines again, and start escalating the sexual tension. Using webcam or voice will actually greatly help you develop timing, body language and tone of voice, and it completes the set of skills you'll be learning on Second Life.

If you're new to Second Life, it's actually quite a steep learning curve, but if you look me up when you're on there, I'll help you out with some stuff to improve your avatar.

Online is nothing compared to irl game.

If you wanna practice irl game, start with ugs! Serious, if you cannot pull a number from an ug, there is no hope for pulling a number from a 9 -10.

Try Omegle. Aim for quick e-mail or yahoo closes.

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