STR8UP said:
This is the downside to "spinning plates".
I don't have the time, energy, or desire to have to put that much effort into keeping track of women.
Like Francisco, I'm also an
ACT! user. It's so freaking easy after you learn the basics, and the concept translation from using it for business relationships to using it for women relationships is comparatively simple.
The busier I get with life, the more I realize how inefficient it is to try to remember all the little details about people that are important to them. Add alcohol, noise pollution, and all the other elements of socializing to the mix and it just becomes that much more difficult.
Enter the CRM.
You don't have to be a computer geek or a hospitality professional to jot down things like a chick's favorite drinks, where she's from, her dumb generic stories that are important to her, etc. A lot of the effort of spinning plates is reduced when you don't have to continually see or talk to her to keep the rapport going. In fact, I'd venture as far as to say that the essence of successful plate spinning revolves around maintaining a prolonged, sustained, seemingly effortless rapport.
Then, when you call her every now and then or go out with her, all you have to do is take a quick glance at your notes and commit to short-term memory the details of her. You don't have to expend all this extra time & energy continually getting to know her. You can pick up right where you left off the last time the two of you were together.
On the other side of the coin from maintaining rapport, it gives you the ability to objectively evaluate your plates, well after the chemical rush has been metabolized. Which ones are worth continuing to spin? Which ones are hot and good for social proof but annoy the piss out of you? What features do you really enjoy about this one? Is she sexually enjoyable? Whatever things are important to you about women become the details you track.
Does this objectify women as to their relationship potential? Absolutely. Does it dehumanize the process? Hardly. If anything, utilizing existing technology to more efficiently manage the sex & women part of your life gives one leverage over both their competition and Father Time.
I might even make the argument here that most guys find 'the game' of finding suitable LTR candidates infinitely frustrating because their whole method of seeking out new women relies on a series of chance encounters, temporary feelings, and using serial monogamy as the methodology for contrasting their options.