| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 2/28/2008 9:43:05 AM | How about that.
Gee, guess this explains why I get all these messages looking for dating, relationships, FWB, etc.
Hang out/Friends to me means PLATONIC friends.
Here I just thought guys weren't bothering to read my profile... now I see it is simply a case of people thinking "No" means "Yes". Well, great, that's easy to solve, isn't it? :roll eyes: | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 2/28/2008 9:53:41 AM | Well hanging out has to different meanings
To women it means going and doing things, like dinner and theme parks, movies, stuff like that.
To men it means lets hang out so I can get u into bed!!!! He always says call me IF you want to hang out! No to me that means call me if u want to have sex.... | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 2/28/2008 11:53:22 AM | I hate all these silly little 'levels' of dating. "We're seeing each other". "We hang out." "We talking a lot" "We're dating".
What all these things stand for as far as I'm concerned is "We're going on a date but if I'm not sure about wanting more, I can always fall back on my definition of what actually happened so as to keep you in a perpetual holding pattern."
Either you want a friend or you want a date. Hanging out means stringing somebody along. Yeah, many people will say that this isn't the case but then I have to wonder , if you're not going on a date and you aren't looking for a new friend then what exactly are you doing ? I don't understand the desire to complicate the process with all these definitions that are, in my opinion, objectionably vague. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 2/28/2008 1:02:30 PM | interesting.....
from the urban dictionary
1. hang out
Spending time with someone in the context of friendship or in the context of casually exploring whether you like someone as just a friend or maybe more than a friend.
makes sense to me
gotta start somewhere...
'kimbo  | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 2/28/2008 1:13:36 PM |
To me it is something casual less formal than a date like maybe grab coffee or a drink and chat. No expectations or the stress of a formal date. To me, hang out is great way to get to know someone without the pressure of a date.
That's what I think it means. When I post it in my profile, specifically it means "just cause we're talking, meeting, etc. doesn't mean you can assume there's anything to be romantically assumed about it." | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 2/28/2008 1:30:50 PM |
In all honesty, when I was looking around on POF, I would avoid women who put "hang out" as their thing. Mostly because I was looking to date and I didn't want to deal with women who just want to "test drive me" or play commitment-phobia.
Even someone who says they're looking for "dating"/"long term relationship" in their profile are going to go out with you in the beginning and see if they actually like you. It won't necessarily mean they're going to jump right into a relationship with you. It also doesn't mean that people who choose "hang out" are commitment-phobic either. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 2/28/2008 3:59:58 PM | When I first joined POF, I thought "Hang Out " meant, someone that wanted to do going out activities and hang out together, movies, watch TV,etc, but after meeting a few "Hang Outters" it turned out to be more like someone looking to multiple date and be friends with benefits. Just my experience, not the rule!
Feel free to correct me me or tell me/us about their experience with these "Hang Out" people. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 3/1/2008 8:54:15 AM | The last guy I was seeing used the term "hang out" quite a bit. At 1st I thought it meant to just spend time together, date, get to know each other, that sort of thing, but being as he is on several dating sites all at the same time sent a few reg flags up in the air for me so I googled his arss! What his version of "hanging out" really meant was having sex without much of a commitment all the while continuing to keep the prospects open. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 3/1/2008 9:02:33 AM | | "Hang out" in this site says to me "I'm too much of a weenie to commit to anything right now." It can mean that they have emotional issues around dating and romantic relationships, or just haven't grown up yet. Or it can mean they are freshly out of a bad relationship experience. Or it can mean they are just carefree and looking for a sexual relationship, and not much more. There's also "activity partner" as a choice if you want to make it clear that you want no emotional committment, but want to go out and have fun (but don't want cheap sex). There's also "friends" which means to me an emotional committment but not a romantic one, and spending time with each other without sex. I would recommend those two if you are "just not ready for dating" but if you are really not ready, probably would be best to just get off the dating site. If you would entertain the idea of casual sex along with spending time with the person, "hang out" is fine. Note I didn't say "intimate encounter" as that implies that it's just about the sex, and that's it - no going out or doing activities. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 3/1/2008 9:27:12 AM |
e. Slang. to calm down: Hang out, Mom, I'm OK.
Can't see an English dictionary saying this.... Nor an Australian one.
Hanging out to me means casual friendship to do things together, maybe even even with others. Compansionship doing nothing or anything. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 3/1/2008 9:39:04 AM | | I try not to prejudge and assume what someone means by hang out, that's wy I don't block "hang out" men from contacting me. More often than not though, I find that they are looking for a fwb. Maybe I should rethink that block thing. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 3/1/2008 9:44:16 AM | | Hang out is exactly as it says...it leaves alot of room for conversation without the stress of a date...it keeps you free of people getting the wrong message i.e do not read more into my intentions than there is... in short kudos to 'kimbo | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 3/1/2008 9:54:12 AM | I never thought of it as meaning anything other than perhaps an activity partner but activity partner seems more clear. However I think Happynature answered it very simply when saying we leave our dorm rooms and kinda hang out in the common area.
I think that shows that we are just company for the other person. For those of us who are very social, its no fun sitting alone. Its more fun to have someone with you whether sitting on a bench at the park soaking up the sun, to have to go out to a movie together. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 3/1/2008 10:03:53 AM | Hang out means....you dont' want to date, the relationship that the person is looking for is completely platonic, no intent on getting romantic.
Then I figure, "What's the point of being on here, right?" 
I often time think that this term is used....so in case the person using it wants to "back out" or pull the emergency brake on the whole thing. He/she will say, "WEll, it wasn't like we are dating or something."
It's kind of a failsafe term , just in case something BETTER comes along. So some people use it for that as well. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 3/1/2008 2:24:46 PM | In my opinion someone putting hang out on their profile as the relationship type means they generally want control or responsibility of any type of relationship that may develop. Instead they want a reactionable choice based on the other persons choice of what the term hang out means as exhibited by their actions.
To me the term is more appropriate after some general label to the relationship is established i.e. friend, lover, significant other, coworker, buddy, acquaintance.
I don't believe the term has any real meaning when applied to the title of a relationship. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 4/25/2008 5:23:00 PM | i agree with this idealogy of what hang out means. It translates into lets go on a date, but its not actually a date. In doing so this way relieves the tension of the whole "we are on a date" deal to we are just to people that are interested but figured lets go out and do something but we arent official with each other whatsoever. But of course thanks to most of the people you will run into hang out means lets get together and have casual one time sex and go our seperate ways and thanks to that mentallity being so common it has skewed the concept into just that and the first thing a woman thinks is that all u want is to just have sex. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 4/25/2008 6:24:37 PM | To me it means what I do with an Ex of mine:
If there's a concert in town that we both want to go to, we go together if neither of us has a date
We occasionally get together and watch movies, have dinner, crack open a couple of beers and accompany each other to events where we are invited "Plus One".
There's nothing romantic or sexual, we hang out because we're friends and because neither of us is dating anyone right now we're each other's default someone to do something with. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 4/25/2008 6:27:51 PM | | Actually, I should correct that to say we enjoy each other's company and hang out often because it's fun. But when there's an event (like a wedding for instance) where one of us may want to bring a date - we're each other's default. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 4/25/2008 10:29:27 PM | Does it matter what label we pick? I used "activity partner" because that's what I wanted.
Someone to come out and be active, do things and go places with. That's what "hang out" means to me.
If it leads to sex, fantastic. If not, I've still had a good time doing something or going somewhere. | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 4/25/2008 10:47:09 PM | I think a good point to raise here, is it means different things to different people, so it would be good idea to clear it up with each other so wires dont get crossed........
For me hanging out means nothing intimate, no sex or intimacy.......... Just hanging out as you would any other friends.
Intimate encounters means casual sex to me.........
dating to me at 45 seems bizarre, that is the first step in courting to a relationship, I dont know what that means to anyone else at my age.....
Friends is like hanging out........ nothing intimate
Long term means all the above eventually leading to a permanent situation if it all works out........... and really great sex....... | |
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| What exactly does hang out mean
Posted: 4/25/2008 10:59:10 PM | Thanks ChesterAdams from Australia for providing a definition.
When an acquaintence used the word "hang," I visualized bats in a cave...or something from a tree in a cowboy movie. As for hang out---that's what fat folks do in jeans and shirts that are too small. Hook up--that might be the boxcars on my brother's Lionel train set...or what one does with speaker wire, a corset, or maybe a milking machine--or is it something a hooker might do?
I'm wary of the terms hang, hang out, and hook-up because they're not in the vocabularies of any friends, so I'd be treading outside my social comfort zone and into one that is 'way younger, or "affected" (from my perspective). My hunch is this cliquish lingo isn't worth my using because of the vividly diverse pictograms conjured, even among those who do use these terms. | |
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