omegal for practice?

[bluecollar]

i live in a small town. there isn't many oppourtnities to talk to people. I have tried to use omegal to at least get some conversational exposure throughout the week. does anyone think this is a good idea. I know its definetly not as effective as in person but I've realized it gives me the same emotional when I see a attactive women on the other side of the camera. I am struggling with openers to say though. 

[JackZero]

I wouldn't say it's a bad idea. In fact, I hope you try it and come back and let us know how it worked for you. If it were me, I wouldn't use it to practice openers. I'd use it to practice making connections. An opener is less important than most guys think. Invoking an emotion and making a genuine connection will get you a lot farther.

[TheWhiteTiger]

Online is very different to the real world so as JackZero said consider using that to also practice connection building, and I'd also say storytelling.

I happen to think a good opener can set you up really well BUT even if you found THE BEST opener for Omegle, it might not translate to the real world, or to another platform even.

Storytelling, DHV'ing, and connection building translates almost the same everywhere, as does the lack of those (I myself have a huge sticking point with connection building at the moment).

I don't know how Omeagle works, but if you can talk to strangers OUTSIDE OF Illinois that would be ideal since you won't accidentally burn through potential targets

[bluecollar]

Yeah I have noticed on Omegle that the opener is the most important part because it's so easy for people to skip over you. I would like to think that I'm better at connection building than anything else in conversation. I need to work on my openers and just overall structure to my conversation.

I think the biggest thing about connection building is experiencing problems in your life and then making sense of them. Once he makes sense of them you're able to convey that to someone else that might be going through the same thing. Once you “Connect the dot” for them, you've offered them some type of value. There are some people that value this type of connection and other people that only care about social validation. The people that only care about social validation usually withdrawal from the conversation when in the connection phase of conversation because in order to build a connection they need to have some skin in the game so to say, and they're not comfortable showing their vulnerable side. It's very good if you want to get a read on people and understand what they are like as a person.