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1. I'm going to a party later on this week and I don't know anyone except for 2 people and the rest of them are pretty strangers. How are you suppose to act a university party where you're a complete stranger to everyone?
2. And also, how can you bring the AMOG down?
1. This is MUCH easier than what I used to do - going to a college party knowing NOBODY!
Basically you wanna arrive when things are starting to kick off, but it's not too packed. Make sure the friends you know are there, somewhere. Walk in the room with confident body language, smiling, and feeling the music and the energy of the room - you want to match that vibe, and then take it up a notch slightly. The guy who walks in looking nervous, looks around for someone he knows, and then stands to one side looking shiftily is lowering the energy and fun of the party. The guy who jumps in yelling and screaming to a quiet gathering of friends, is acting in an uncalibrated, socially unintelligent way. The goal is to sense the energy level, match it, and then amplify it.
So you wanna walk in, smiling, enjoying the music, and you want to immediately make eye contact with people around you and smile. Open the first few people you see, even if you don't know them - you can compliment someone on their clothing, ask how they know the host of the party, mention if they saw or heard about whatever random thing happened on campus recently (there's always some gossip about something!) or something like that. Joke around a bit, and feel free to use the time constraint that you need to find your friend X (and mention their name). This will make the people comfortable that you haven't just wandered in uninvited, and you're not gonna be that guy who finds one nice group and talks their ear off all night because they don't know anyone else. It also might open a thread of conversation because they might also be a mutual friend of theirs - easy way to build rapport!
If you do this early on, you have 2 or 3 safe groups you can always return to, plus a mission to find your friends. After you find your friends, you can choose to have them introduce you to people they already know, and you can introduce them to your new friends (the 3 safe sets you initially opened) this back and forth of introductions can create social momentum that will keep you meeting more and more people throughout the course of the evening, and it basically all comes from your initial 5-10 minutes from walking in and just putting yourself out there a little initially.
2. If your goal is to "bring down" people, then I would suggest you need to shift your mindset a little bit. My goal, not only when I go out at night or when I'm at work, but in life in general, is to give value, bring happiness and do good to people. If you're being a really charming, friendly, entertaining guy, towards the whole group of people, then the guys CANNOT be a dick to you because then THEY will look like assholes to the girls. If you engage with them and joke around with them, then they will like you and be more than happy to allow you to talk to their girls. If you have the mentality like you're doing something secret and wrong by trying to sarge their chicks, then you'll subcommunicate that and the guys will naturally act to protect their girls from you.
I've gone up to groups and said I want to hit on this one girl, and a guy in the group has smiled and said she's his gf. What did I do? I shook his hand and congratulated him warmly! Why on earth would he "amog" me for that? To be honest I don't even THINK about "amogging" - it doesn't even come up, because my focus is about going out and having a good time, so I haven't had a guy do it to me for years.