It was really easy to chat with girls on IRC, MSN, meet them on sites like myspace. On IRC you got talking without even seeing pictures yet. Facebook came along brought all the normies with it and made messaging strangers out of the blue weird. Now you had to friend them first, which basically meant you had to meet IRL, meaning you have to be friends with the right people and be a normie that gets invited to all the parties and can talk to anyone there.