You Give Good TXT: How to Talk to Someone

Romantically Online

by Marco Kaye

Facts!

• 1 out of every 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.

• 63% had sex with at least one person they met online.

• 40 million unique visitors to dating sites

• If it wasn’t for the IM, I would still be a virgin.

Why are we so bad at advertising ourselves?

Step 1: “Be the Person You Want to Be”

– Gandhi

Marco Kaye = Vagina Wordsworth

Step 2: Give Your Pictures “Talk Value”

Step 3: Prune Your Profile Like a Bonsai Tree

Visual Bookshelf

Don’t attach that!

The Tech Love Heiarchy

dating/profi le message

personal email

IM

TXT

Phone Call

The Internet Cold Call

• Opportunity to put into words what you’ve been thinking about.

• Don’t be weird

• Don’t keep checking your inbox

Acceptable Topics of Conversation

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Things onthe Net

Food Videogames Books

Topics

email eloquently

edit yourself

The IM is a POWERFUL

TOOL for LOVE

You can send words, send pictures, music,

and links.

Once More, with Emoticon

Answer your internet door.Or “interdoor”

Don’t drunk txt.

Easy on the caps.

Don’t xoxo unless you mean it.

Some other don’ts:

In the immortal words of the greatest blogger of all time, Walt Whitman.

Among the Multitude

Among the men and women, the multitude,

I perceive one picking me out by secret and divine signs,

Acknowledging none else — not parent, wife, husband, brother, child,

any nearer than I am;

Some are baffled — But that one is not — that one knows me.

Ah, lover and perfect equal!

I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections;

And I, when I meet you, mean to discover you by the like in you.

Keep the Digital Flame Alive

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