Public phone number

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Alright so I have several internet "friends" that post their number in their myspace and/or facebook status(all girls). My question is why do they do this? and is it basically an invitation for me to text them? If so should I text them something like "What kind of girl leaves their number in their fb/myspace status?- Jason S." or something different?
Everytime I see this I want to text them. In fact, this might seem contradictory to the questions I have asked but I want to know the correct way to do it, I have texted one girl. I used an old trusty opinion opener. It worked fairly well, but I wasn't too interested in the girl so I left it alone.








meant to put this in gen discussion.
Sorry mods...

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the reason girls put their numbers is because theyre attention whores...

..nuff said..

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I know a couple girls who do this.

From what I can see they are bored and want someone to offer them something fun to do. So if you have an activity to entertain them with you might find yourself in the company with said girl.

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the reason girls put their numbers is because theyre attention whores...

..nuff said..

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key word there "whore" lol
it seems to me if they ARE attention whores they'd be easy to game. Like walk in the park easy. i think smirks confirmed this theory

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[quote1242257947=Prodigy]
the reason girls put their numbers is because theyre attention whores...

..nuff said..

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key word there "whore" lol
it seems to me if they ARE attention whores they'd be easy to game. Like walk in the park easy. i think smirks confirmed this theory
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Not sure an attention whore = a genuine whore. Most women are fundamentally attention whores, the problem is that a lot of times when you give it to them they don't want you any longer because you've already given them what they really wanted.

Now, being desperate for attention is totally different. These women will do anything for attention because they have no other options...having a Myspace page makes you an attention whore, of sorts. Posting you're number on said page makes you desperate for attention.

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Now, being desperate for attention is totally different. These women will do anything for attention because they have no other options...having a Myspace page makes you an attention whore, of sorts. Posting you're number on said page makes you desperate for attention.

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Strangely enough the girls are good looking. I actually did a little experiment last night and chatted with a girl on facebook that had her number up in her status. I asked her "Why do girls post their numbers on facebook and myspace?" She said "Well my phones broken and I had over 200 numbers in their so I posted it on here."
Fair enough answer, but I don't think that is the WHOLE truth. I think it is a mixture of that and Smirks' theory "girls who put their numbers on these sites want something to do and want someone to invite them to do something". The reason I think it wasn't the whole truth is because noone has 200 people they keep in contact with all the time. Me, I only have like you guys on the lair and 2 friends and 5 family members that I contact regularly. I would bet that a hot girl has a lot more than that, but noone talks to 200 people that much.
Thats just my POV. Could be wrong but w/e

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I don't think that looks have anything to do with it. Seriously. As men, we tend to view a woman's world through how hot we think she is. Since we ascribe so much value to how attractive they are, we immediately begin to see them differently.

I think most of us think of a hot woman in these terms:

Wow, she's hot. I bet she gets hit on all the time. Man, she's so hot. What the hell do I have to offer her? She's probably got a ton of people in her life. Etc, etc.

But, the fact is that a lot of really attractive women don't ever get hit on...which is a combination of how their attractiveness is intimidating to men and the woman's perceived approachability...it's not uncommon for the hottest woman in a bar to not get hit on as much as the fifth hottest woman in the bar.

So, just because a woman is attractive doesn't mean that, in practice, people want to be around her. Nor does it mean that she has a shit ton of friends.

When someone posts their number on a social networking site with privacy options that allows anyone to see it, I see that as a sign of desperation.

HOWEVER, if she's set her profile to just give her friends the ability to see her number then that's a totally different story and, in this case, I think Smirks is right.

[Guest]

Variation on the above:

I just got a phone number, but it's not posted anywhere publicly (that I know of). I met the girl once while drunk (nothing memorable about the interaction) then a friend/aquaintance of hers gave me the girl's phone number (without the girl knowing). If I wanted to, I could arrange to meet up with this girl and pretend like I don't even have her phone number. Or I can start up some fun text game. I was thinking of maybe texting her that I found her number written on a bathroom wall. Any recommendations?