Man I remember before there was social media when I was in my early teen years. Used to meet girls at school and/or through friends. You'd get their phone number and call them up on the landline like other people said. You also couldn't text eachother all day so you;d talk on the phone when you were both home and free and chat about the day/week and future plans, then you get off the phone and worry about other shit. It was pretty great, though of course racking up notches required more time and investment surely. I really can't comment on what "game" was like because social media and texting became the norm by the time I was out of high school.
Regardless, the biggest differences as far as I can tell are male thirst and jaded entitlement of females. Women get a lot more attention now from a lot more men in a lot more frequency. Conversely, it is far more difficult now for a an average guy to get the time of day from an average girl. I suppose it comes down to females' perception of options.
If women wanted to meet and garner attention from men they had to be very willing participants. They had to go out, they had to be open to approach, and understand that only men with balls (or that were vetted by their social circle) were going to spit to them. they had perceptively less options because less men were talking to them and it required more effort on their part to participate in any kind of courtship.
Nowadays women get comments, messages, likes, and matches from men 24/7 from their myriad of social media accounts. A girl can never leave her couch and get flooded with offers for merely posting a picture of herself. The effort girls need to make for male attention and offers for dates is close to 0.
Regardless, the biggest differences as far as I can tell are male thirst and jaded entitlement of females. Women get a lot more attention now from a lot more men in a lot more frequency. Conversely, it is far more difficult now for a an average guy to get the time of day from an average girl. I suppose it comes down to females' perception of options.
If women wanted to meet and garner attention from men they had to be very willing participants. They had to go out, they had to be open to approach, and understand that only men with balls (or that were vetted by their social circle) were going to spit to them. they had perceptively less options because less men were talking to them and it required more effort on their part to participate in any kind of courtship.
Nowadays women get comments, messages, likes, and matches from men 24/7 from their myriad of social media accounts. A girl can never leave her couch and get flooded with offers for merely posting a picture of herself. The effort girls need to make for male attention and offers for dates is close to 0.