ネット ナンパ
Japanese phrase meaning to try to pick up girls on the
internet. This phrase is a combination of the words
internet and
nanpa. Prononounced in as
netto nanpa.
With the rapid growth of net users in Japan that are not only using PCs, but also using cellular phone messaging and i-mode like services, net nanpa has become enormous. People of all ages are doing it and there are loads of sites devoted to it.
Net nanpa is written in katakana. It is written in Japanese fonts at the top of this writeup so you might experience mojibake.