The Great and Powerful Facebook Part 9

In Parts 1 – 8 of The Great and Powerful Facebook we went from your favorite friend’s profile page all the way to your first date with them. Here, we put it all together, from the first step to the first kiss, here’s how to go off-line and into the arms of your Facebook love.

The Great and Powerful Facebook Checklist

Here it is, the checklist for turning your Facebook friend into your real-life lover. Follow these steps and if it’s meant to be, then get ready for it to happen.

  1. It’s a Social Networking Site, Not a Dating Site: Always come from a place of friendship on Facebook, never a place of sexual interest…at least not at first.
  2. Status Over-Reaction: Pay no heed to someone’s romantic status, it could as easily be a lie as a memory.
  3. Don’t Be Another Brick in the Wall: When approaching a friend to go on a date, do so through a PM rather than on the public wall
  4. Exes are not Friends: Do not keep serious ex-lovers as friends on Facebook
  5. Forget Subtext: Do not employ any sort of subtext in your written communications; particularly not any that take the form of the ellipse (…)
  6. Write for the Link: When using hyperlinks in your PMs, make sure you use your links in support of your message rather than the other way around
  7. Use it to Lose It: The point is not to create a Facebook fling, get out and into the real world by employing the 3 message rule
  8. Start Public with New Friends: When approaching new friends, start publically with friendly reaches at common grounds
  9. Set the Tone: Once you’ve got a date planned, set the tone for meeting by both recognizing potential failure and success.
  10. Get out of Your Head: Once on the date, make sure you deal with the person in front of you rather than the information you remember about them.

Following these ten bullet points will help steer your course from Facebook friends to real-life lovers. Of course, no one is going to be perfect at all of them. Remember that Facebook romance is the same as any other – it is about connecting to another human being and sharing time together. If you can remain focused on learning about a new person and sharing a good experience, the rest will fall into place.

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