"Let's Just Be Friends" (How do you respond?)

The only reason you'd get that is by not projecting the right vibe through your profile or your messaging. Dealing with things that can go wrong, you can either learn a few things to prevent and/or learn to do damage control. With LJBF you def want to prevent.

I dunno shit about online game, but.... Having some female friends isn't the worst thing in the world, just sayin. Especially if they have hot friends or it helps you meet up with them in person, where they get to feel your vibe/sub-communications and suddenly the whole "lets just be friends" issue disappears.

That's crazy Cooj. In what context from girls online? 

^^That's what I was wondering. How does that even happen lol?

Usually after I get their phone number and we text for a while, they eventually decide they just want to be friends. 

I know my text game is kind of fucked up, I need to work on it. How soon should I push for a meet up?

If it's from a dating site, IMMEDIATELY. If it's from infield, IMMEDIATELY. If it's from Facebook, IMMEDIATELY. You get the idea. You're turning into a penpal 

What I've been doing is starting a convo off by making an imaginary situation out of something on her profile like, "Lets get married because bla bla" or tease her about something on her profile.

(One girl was an animal trainer and she had a picture of herself with a dolphin on it's back in the water. I made fun of her for torturing animals and waterboarding terrorist dolphins.)

From there I've been suggesting the date (BEFORE TEXTING) AND getting the phone number in the same message like, "Have you ever done this? It's tons of fun... I'm over the online messaging. text me your number, ### :)"

Then I keep the texting to a minimum. I'll banter with her a little bit after she texts me, and text intermittently until the date. But other than that I like to stay pretty friendly&funny but a touch aloof.

I don't know whether that's helping me or not but I'm at about 40% success rate for Dates to Initiations. The main point in there is that, at no point do I give her the impression that I'm friend zone material. She's texting me because she's going on a date. Period. Otherwise she wouldn't have given her number.

Cujo, Manwhore's right... BE FAST. Try an experiment. Place a limit on yourself on how many online messages you can use to get the girl's number and on a date. Start at say, 8-10. Try to get down to 3-4

Alright wow, you guys are fast, lol. I always thought i had to build a connection or something before trying for the number.

I just texted some chick a few minutes ago, i got her number off POF like 2 months ago, our text conversation fizzled out and I never got around to deleting her number. I think she stopped texting me after I asked her to send me photos of her ass.  I just texted her some funny weird shit a few minutes ago, then called her for a meet up on Saturday, but her excuse, "Dad's birthday tomorrow, working two jobs, blah blah blah". I told her we would meet up next week and she said ok, so I guess I'll try again later. 

Another question, is cold approaching always more effective than online dating sites? I normally don't do it because I'm a lazy fuck, I need to change dammit but my perpetual laziness is like a fucking disease.

Well you're definitely not living an abundance mentality/lifestyle mang. I read in the other post how you think it's not worth going after awesomeness because there's not enough to go around. Cold approach is a BOSS skill set. You need to start aligning yourself a different way 

There's enough awesomeness to go around, but I am sort of a minimalist. I'm not very materialistic or anything. I don't care about riches and wealth. But I do want enough money to travel the world and eat good organic food. My abudnace with women is definitely shit at the moment. What tips can you give so I can start aligning myself with that boss mentality? 

manwhore training...seriously check it out

also, start reading and watching videos on RSD nation. There are tons of good videos on abundance and being an overall boss

Think about this for  a second...

The amount of energy from the sun that directly hits the earth is about 1000 Watts / meter^2 and radiation energy decays by the law of squares. The earth is 92,960,000 miles from the sun. So halfway between earth and the sun that 1 meter^2 is getting 4000 watts. 1/4 is 16 Kilowatts. 1/8 is 64 kilowatts etc.

Basically the energy output of the sun for 1 second could power the US for 9,000,000 years!

... and the sun is a relatively small star, and there are hundreds of millions in this galaxy. And there are billions of galaxies!

The natural state of the universe is abundance LOL

Practice makes perfect!! Go out and actively cold approach and over time it will become more natural.  If you don't put yourself out there you're not going to get any results!  You should post your text convo so we can help ya with some text game.  Are you doing well on POF how's your profile?