i know the answer varies because different women are attracted to different things. basic principles such as don't be a creep, be patient and be respectful are obvious enough to anyone with common sense, but still, i feel like most females ignore guys online unless they're like super charming or popular. i feel that if one girl told a female friend about a guy they knew, then that girl would be more likely to actually talk to that guy, because he's a recommendation. but girls are more cautious towards people they never met, and rightfully so, but it makes starting up casual conversations very difficult, at least in the online world. my question is basically this, how do i learn how to communicate with a girl if i don't really have experience communicating with girls? it's sort of like the job experience question, how do i get enough experience for a job if i can't get a job first to actually get that experience? it seems like if i don't already have female friends, then i'm pretty much just subconsciously talking to girls the same way i'd talk to guys, which just doesn't work that well because girls are different. i guess this sort of thing comes natural to people, but it definitely doesn't come natural to me. i usually just try to be myself and use common sense, but i still get ignored A LOT. it's discouraging...

"females"

I'm not gonna say anything more, but the fact you call us that says it all about the kind of person you are

Girl chill, not everyone have English as a first language. Just tell him peacefully; calling women females IS... Rather untactful, truly. Wouldn't recommend doing that ever, lmao. It's better to use as a specification, like you did later in the post, or in biological context.

To reply to the post, oh well.. It is rather hard to comment on that while not having any particular struggle with it, however... I'll try, I guess?

It all depends on what your endgoal is. If you want to just be friendly etc, acting just like you act with dudes is completely fine.. Well, if you act with dudes like a normal person, I should clarify lmao. For that, you can go on a large discord server for some Hobby or niche you enjoy, and just... Talk. Ideally, don't choose mostly male-fominated ones(gaming)

For flirting... Yeah I dunno. Flirting online is weird asf to me, and I know ldr won't work for me either, so I never pursued. Girls are human too, so all basic rules applied to guys work there too I guess, with some changes. I have been confessed online a few times prior, and all of those times were when I was a decent human being with a sense of humour, non-weird, casually having fun n shit in dms. Flirting is a game of "At this point of time, does she dig me enough to laugh at this joke rather than be creeped out?" And that's all there is to it, I think, both irl and online.

The zone of lgbt-related folks, bi or trans, I'm out. 0 experience, straight as hell, but probably every advice up there works¿

Also, rereading the post, it very much depends where you reach out to girls and at what stage.

You will probably have no chance going into male dominated spaces/spaces with a lot of down bad guys like on reddit and reaching out to a girl randomly, you obviously will be ignored. Much easier to go into public servers and integrating into a community; feel the vibes n shit. If you find someone who laughs at your jokes more often then not/slides with them, you can try casually taking it into dms, I guess. The art of talking online differs from person to person methinks, I'm mostly talking my experiences

dms tho, still don't be weird and ESPECIALLY never confess or ask stupid romantic-like shit from the getgo, it's weird imo. Gotta go around and feel up the other party, the viiiiibes. More often then not you might just end up with a friend, which is a W, don't be weird abt thar either or yr a dick lmao. Made stockpiles of friends like that, both male and female.

I've found that being mentally engaging works, like show that you are a full person and not just a penis looking for a hole

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