Monthly Archives: January 2011

Community Spotlight! You guys rule!

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Guess what happened to me, Skouts?!
Amidst saying my goodbyes to friends today, packing for my move to the big city (where I’ll be working with Skout full time! YES!!), and watching cheesy TV show reruns online (… Okay, that last one’s not very productive at all), I almost forgot to write this week’s Skout Article!

I know.
Slap on the wrist — I totally deserve it.

Thankfully, my Blog team is pretty bomb. Tobias (awesome dude who hands over the stock imagery for the blog) has this weekly email reminder thing he sends out to remind me to get my butt in gear and give you guys an update. Ha!

So okay.
Here’s your update before I get fired.

You guys have been doing such an amazing job leaving us feedback on the blog posts, sending in your suggestions for how you’d like to see the App grow and change, and I just knew that I had to reward you in some way.

So I thought to myself, “I know! Why don’t I just spotlight some of my favorite comments on TheFlirtBlog.com?!”

I know, I know.
I’m a genius.
And I’m a pretty rockin’ Community Manager too, if I do say so myself. So without further ado … I will now point out my favorite comments over the past month or so.

“I had a guy who got a tad compulsive with messaging me. He said hello one day but I withheld a response because he just didn’t spark my interest. (him being in his late 30′s, and me being 20). Contrary to my subtleness, he took it upon himself to be, let’s say persistent. I started getting several messages from him a day. “hi….hi….hi….hey….what’s up…hi..hi..hey…” you get the picture. He did shake things up one day by saying ” do you not wanna talk? Perceptive fellow isn’t he? Well, with his in-depth perceptiveness, he apparently figured that I obviously did but was just being too shy and it would just take a little more work to reel me in. So the “hi”s and “hey”s continued. (side note to gentlemen, talking to us is not like a raffle where the more times you put your name in, the more likely you are to get drawn. If we don’t respond to you after the 1st… Or 45th…time, we aren’t more likely to talk just because you message again. It’s actually more of a turn off. It comes off as too strong, and slightly obsessive. In my opinion anyway)”

- Angie, in reply to Cheri’s Adventures on Skout

Angie, I could not have said it better myself.
If I could find a way to just drill this into everyone’s head who deals in online or mobile flirting? I think the world would be a better place.

Messaging someone once or twice?
Yeah, no big deal. You can get away with that. Maybe I just skipped over you the first time? Maybe I accidentally deleted you the second?

But 3x? Let alone 45x, as this comment on our previous entry extends to?

Jeez, buddy.
Girls don’t work that way.

Take a tip from me and Angie — we’re not interested.

“Have her feel your arm and say ‘Feel that? That’s boyfriend material’”

- HARD2H8, in reply to Send Us Pick Up Lines

HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
… HA!!

Call me easily amused, but that is seriously the best pick up line I have ever heard. I’m not even kidding — if someone had used that on me prior to reading it here, I would have thought the guy was incredibly hilarious & witty.

But I’m a sucker for wordplay and write mildly humorous crap for a living, so I might just be a little biased.

… Just a little.

“I think there should be an option where u can send messages to people and then they can read it when they r next online and then they can reply back.”

James Rolfe, in reply to Tell Us What You Think!

I liked this one because after reading it, I literally had to stop, take a deep breath, and refrain from slamming my head into my keyboard. It taught me discipline! Really, guys!

Because believe it or not, James Rolfe? That is exactly what you can do on Skout! It’s not even a feature we have to throw in because, GREAT SCOTT — IT’S ALREADY THERE! Yaaaaay!

But in all seriousness, there are a lot of times where this blog just gets the most ridiculous comments. This one is pretty tame compared to the few that I’ve sent to the spam folder along with enlarging my penis and all that. And there are so many times where I’m reading replies and thinking, “Are you serious?”

Like, someone will post a 10 page long comment, and then at the very bottom, they’ll write, “But please don’t unscreen this.”

WHAT?!
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!
You made me read all that for nothing?!
Why would you take the time to write all of that?! What if I hadn’t read your comment thoroughly and unscreened it by skipping that last line?! How horrible would that have been!

… Not so horrible, actually. As it’s not my job to monitor your private life for you, and if you’re going to be posting here on the blog, your comments are actually property of the internet, and not of me. Which means, if you volunteer hilarious but potentially harmful information about yourself to me on the blog that I think our community will enjoy? I’m probably going to put it to use.

Which means: Guys, stop sending me your private memoirs and then getting pissed when I set them live. If you wanna make your secrets public somewhere, go write a blog. But if you’d like to leave a relevant comment that contributes to the overall community experience here on Skout? Then by all means, leave a comment!

And speaking of comments, do you guys have any for me?
Have you all been having fun commenting on the blog, reading about Skout, and playing with our app? Also, what more would you like to see here on the blog?

Let us know!
We love hearing what you have to say.

And as always? Happy flirting, Skouts.
XOXO Cheri XOXO

Cheri’s Adventures on Skout.

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Holy moly?! You guys are really on the ball!
When I say, “Skout Community, we need help gathering Pick Up lines for our app! Help!” — you all really know how to pitch in and contribute!

The feedback was massive for our last blog post, and we simply can’t thank you guys enough. It’s pretty obvious that we have the best mobile flirting community, and our app would definitely not be where it was if it weren’t for your suggestions and help.

So again, thank you!
But now down to the good stuff.
;-)

Part of my job as Skout’s Community Manager & Blogger is to actually use the app. I don’t just sit here blabbing about something I know nothing about! In fact, I actually spend a lot of my free time getting to know the community on here, and even doing a little flirting myself!

And let me tell you — there are some crazy people out there. Haha!

The risk you take with every dating-based application or website is that you’re probably going to stumble onto some major d-bags, or just people who have no “game”, really. It’s unavoidable! Not everyone comes in this picture-perfect package like I do. Bahaha!

For example, sometimes when someone sends you a message on Skout, you go to check out their profile, look them over, and just see that you’re not interested at all. That can’t be helped! And it’s totally not your job to be attracted to everyone on the planet.

But the lame thing is that regardless of whether or not you are into this person, sometimes they Just. Won’t. Quit.

Behold:

GROSS!!
Okay, so I ignore you for three days in a row, thinking you might get the hint and see that I’m just not interested. This is a chatting application, after all. We’re given the luxury of just “pretending not to see a chat invite”, since it’s almost completely anonymous.

But what makes you think that after 3 days with zero correspondence, a picture of your PENIS is going to make me want to talk to you?! EWWWW!

Oh, and by the way? An unsolicited dick picture is most definitely enough to get us to throw you out. If you notice from the above photo, I already blocked him by the time I took the screenshot. But blocking isn’t enough! Blocking someone only stops them from messaging you. We want you to report people who send you unsolicited dick shots.

Skout — cleaning up the mobile flirting space one pervert at a time. ;-)

Other times, you feel like the conversation is coming along just fine! No penis pictures, he’s kinda interesting-looking, you’re talking about relatable things, yadda-yadda-yadda.

But then he/she says something that kind of just turns you off.
Maybe he comes off a little strong? Maybe he just doesn’t know how to smoothly transition into taking your chat to the next level? Either way, it’s easy to turn a picky girl like me off. And at this point, all I can really do is politely let them down.

Personally, I like to take the humorous approach.
For example:

I am attracted to intelligent and charming men with good taste & conversational skills. And just the way he blurted out, “I’m 21, do you have a man?” was like … “Uh, what?”

It came from out of nowhere. I was like, jeez, at least put some effort into getting to know me better. It completely turned me off to the idea of even chatting with this kid, and at that point, I had to let him down politely.

But of course, not everyone you meet on Skout is going to charm your pants off. In fact, I’m sure most of you aren’t even as ridiculously selective as I am! I’m kind of a stickler when it comes to who I let into my life. That’s just how I roll.

But thankfully, every once in a while a cool guy will come along who knows just what to say.

He came at me with a creative introduction that tailored to the information I’d put up on my Skout profile, made me laugh because it made no sense at all, and followed up pretty smooth!

Job well done, KP, and way to stand out.
Your profile, chatting skills, and overall flirting expertise were pretty badass. Enough to get me chatting with you!

But enough about my adventures, Skouts. I want to hear about yours!
Do you have screenshots to share with me from your own dating adventures on Skout? Do you have any hilarious or cool stories to share related to our app?

Leave a comment and let us know!

And as always? Happy flirting, Skouts.
XOXO Cheri XOXO

Send us Pick Up Lines!!

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Skout Community!!
Aside from wishing you all a Happy New Year (which I totally would have done in last week’s blog entry if I hadn’t been so swamped with more work-related crap — my bad!), I have a task for you all to complete.

WE. NEED. PICK UP LINES.

Cheesy ones, smooth ones, effective ones, horrible ones — whatever! We need them, and we need them fast. Do us a major favor and leave a comment with any pick up lines that you can think of, and who knows? You will probably see yours used somewhere in the Skout App! Ideally, we would like to collect anywhere from 50 – 100 pick up lines, so please send us as many as possible.

I know.
That’s some exciting stuff, right?
:-O

Here are some examples to follow in case you’re not sure what a “Pick Up Line” is:

“Do you have a map? I just keep on getting lost in your eyes.”

“How was heaven when you left it?”

“If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I together.”

Etc, etc. You get the picture!
Send us your best (and worst) stuff, and we’ll show you something special in an update to follow!

And as always? Happy flirting, Skouts.
XOXO Cheri XOXO