Thursday, March 31, 2005

How to win Virtual Friends and Virtually Influence Virtual People

I have another question: See Clearancebin, there's this girl. We post comments on the same blog. If I would like to get to know her, would this work: "Hey girl, we post on the same blog, yo. I was wandering if you wanna go out for chicken wings later. My boy at Tuckers can get them for 25 cents a pop." Is "blog" a concept that is sufficiently established that the use of such a "connection" would be conducive towards an effective pickup line? And two, by nature, are relationships birthed on a "blog" meant to transcend cyberspace?
Thanks,
Nehl Cloete
Tuvalu Islands

To answer this question and the myriad others which stem from it we must first have a brief lesson in history. The year is 1981. The golden cans of New Coke appear in convience stores across our great nation. Reaganomics is baling out a floundering General Motors so that Iococa can outsource to Mexico. And, Kraftwerk bursts upon the American music scene with their aristotechnopopsynth smatter "Computer World". The hitherto eurosnobic technophiliac scene finds its American audience to the tune of Cassie Caseum bitching about whistles and farts as Kraftwerk's "Home Computer" and "Computer Love" top the charts. In particular the minimalist lyrics of "Computer World" spoke to the hearts of VGA porn fanatics in a way that Leasure Suit Larry and the Machine Sex demostrations of Survival Research labs never could. Reading like a hiaku generated randomly by Deep Blue "Computer Love" nonetheless became an unofficial anthem for young men across America who had found themselves lusting after the android version of Daryl Hannan that played Daryl Hannan as an andriod in the film adaptation of PK Dicks classic "Do Androids dream of Getting their Freak on" entitled "Blade Humper"
I think the Lyrics may still find a place in the hearts of young bloggers across this virtual world:
"I call the number
I call the number
for a data date
for a data date
Computer Love
Computer Love
Computer Love
Computer Love
^syntax error^"
So, the groundwerk has been already been done and the health of virtual relationships is to say the least peachy. Nevertheless, the quiet muse of the virtual world is born from the fact that we can be someone other than the chartered accountants that we've all sadly become. By assuming virtual identities we can be exciting movers and shakers that do wild things like participate in all night sex chats and virtual wars without our hands ever leaving the keyboard. Is the blog established enough as environment for the flowers of love to blossom and bare fruit? The simple answer is yes-- as long as the so called pick up line is taylored to the confines of its environment. Unfortunately, the fresh and titillating potentials of your prooffered line will exceed the limits engendered by a virtual relationship. "Hey girl, we post on the same blog, yo. I was wandering if you wanna go out for chicken wings later. My boy at Tuckers can get them for 25 cents a pop." While pregnant with all the jive hipness of a feasable pickup line for a bar or night club this pickup line would likely short circuit if used on the web. This is true for a number of reasons not the least of which is the over all inconvience of it. The participant must actually get up off their ass and do something. This seldom is a top priority for us bloggies. The opener might be slightly peared down to "Hey Grrl wtf u need some swm asap?" this gets the essentials right out on the hyperspace table. A more subtle approach is "Yo Bitch, u 2 much, we's mix'n tits in the clippy fo a fortnight." Both these openers display your mastery of the environment and situation. The second request simply will not work, and is stand alone grounds for rejection. Convience is the name of the game. So a suitable trade might be "You wanna take it on over to the Sims online and gets them some BBQ and later let em do what they's do best?" or perhaps the more personal "What say I snail mail you some hot wings and you eat them in front of your webcam?" So I guess by way of arguement we've answered the second question. Relationships of the cyberworld are best left in the cyberworld. Its simple economics.

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