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9. Don´t pester someone to give you his/her eMail address or phone number. If he/she wants to exchange email with you, or talk to you on the phone, he/she will give out the necessary numbers/addresses of his own accord. Especially women are usually careful with this information. If time has come, he/she will give you the address. But the decision when this time has come is up to them! Maybe this moment will not come at all. In this case, you will simply have to take that as a fact..

10. If you would like to speak to someone, always address your sentence like in: "foobar: what kind of music do you like?" Otherwise, your chat partner might not recognize that you want to talk to him and that you asked him a question. It´s very likely that he won´t answer then...

11.Whenever you ask a question, do it politely. The same is valid for your answers. If you are polite, you will be treated politely. If somebody does not answer, don´t get angry with him. Maybe he has simply overlooked your question or does not like to talk to you. Just find someone else to chat with.

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