Especially in the Internet-age, you'd be surprised how many people (dudes especially) have ZIPPY social skills...they open their mouths and sh!t just spews out. Or they're scared to say ANYTHING...they look at the ground and mumble EXPECTING to be rejected. When your body-language says you EXPECT to be rejected, women start thinking it's the correct thing to do.
The mentality has to change. Instead of thinking of yourself as a guy who never talks to girls who is suddenly now in "unfamiliar territory", think of yourself as a guy who ALWAYS talks to girls. Reframe it in your head...EXPECT them to be cool with you talking to them. Smile, say hi, ask them what they're up to...make eye contact, a little kino, and you're GOLDEN.
You would be BLOWN AWAY if you knew some of the conversations you could "get away with" with women if you're just SMOOTH about it and act like you EXPECT her to be open to talk to you. Twice now, I have literally eavesdropped on girls' cellphone conversations (one was talking about her med exams, another was talking about working at a strip club
) and used that as a conversation opener with very positive results.
You would think, "OMG that is personal! She'll think you're some creepy stalker!" Not if you're OPEN and COMFORTABLE with it. Now I'm not advocating you start eavesdropping on girls' conversations...it's situational. But what I AM advocating is learning to be "cool" with women and not EXPECTING them to freak out when you push what YOU think are "boundaries".
You're a more interesting dude than you think...give it a chance.
In the age of the SMS text, women are DYING for guys to have an intelligent (and by "intelligent", I mean "not retarded") conversation with.