Girl Code’s Carly Aquilino Tells Us the Girl Code on Social Media and Dating and More

We’ve gotten advice from the women of MTV’s hit Girl Code before—everything from having the best New Year’s Eve to how to deal with dating losers—and the show is back tonight (11 P.M. ET) for even more fun. Carly Aquilino stopped by Glamour HQ to preview what we’ll see this season, give us the Girl Code on dating and social media, and tell us the weirdest thing that’s ever happened to her on Twitter.

The show’s gotten so big! What’s the feedback been from fans?

Yeah, it’s been so cool to see it from the beginning. It feels like it was so long ago, the first season, but it really wasn’t. It just really clicked with people, and I think people related to it so much that it just blew up. We get a lot of great feedback.

Do fans ever ask you for advice?

All the time. It’s cute because a lot of the demographic is younger, which is fun. A lot of [fans] are teenagers on Twitter, at least, because that’s the social media generation. I set up an ask.fm account because I wanted to communicate with them and I was going to make a YouTube video with all of the questions that they asked me, but it turned out they were like, “What do I do when my boyfriend wants to use my Netflix account and my dad says he’s not allowed to use it? Do I give him my password? My dad will never know!” That’s not a problem! It’s $8 a month—just have him get his own. [Laughs]

What’s the most common question you get asked?

Before I dyed my hair—I had red hair—it was what kind of hair dye do you use? The teenage groups just want to talk about their boyfriends because it’s new to them. “How do I deal if I just got my heart broken?” “How do I know if a guy likes me?” Those are really, really common ones. Those are things, unfortunately, that just everybody has to live through. Everybody remembers that first time a guy breaks your heart, and it’s just so painful. That’s the most devastating thing in your world, so I always feel for them.

Have you gotten any totally out-there questions?

Well, I had a weird thing that happened. A guy shaved my face into his back. He had a really hairy back. He tweeted at me, “If you retweet me, I’m going to shave your face into my back.” And I retweeted like, “LOL.” Within a half hour, it was my face on his back. I wish I had a screenshot of this—I can’t find it anywhere. His girlfriend shaved my face into his hairy, man back and put red where my hair was. I was like, “Good for you. Thank you so much.” It wasn’t even an artistic thing—it was a smiley face with red hair.

That’s so strange! OK, so, let’s talk the Girl Code on dating and social media. When’s the soonest you should add a new guy on Facebook?

I always want to see a guy’s Facebook and Twitter right away. I would do this thing where, if you’re out on a date, you say, “Oh, add me on Facebook. I have this really funny picture.” Then it won’t be creepy like, “I’m going to go home and add you on Facebook at 1 A.M.” Because he’ll be like, “Eww, we just got home!” I would just play it cool, and then that whole night you can stalk him and he won’t even know. I’m avid about that—just googling the sh-t out of them.

What’s the Girl Code when another girl sends flirty texts or comments to your boyfriend?

That aggravates me so much. If you say something to your boyfriend about that, he’s like, “You’re crazy.” He can’t control what girls say. If he doesn’t answer them back, he’s really not doing anything wrong. You could be like, “Well, if you don’t care, why don’t you block her?” ‘Cause we’re taking it back to high school…in our 20s. [Laughs] I would probably not say anything unless it started getting crazy. Girls comment on my boyfriend’s [SNL‘s Pete Davidson] stuff all the time, and I’m like, “Ugh, you’re annoying.” He doesn’t know any of them, so it doesn’t matter. If it was a girl he knew and she was sending hearts-in-the-eyes emoji comments, I would not be able to deal with it. I would be like, “No, you’re not talking to her ever again. You have to quit your job and stop your whole entire life and just live at home and you can’t talk to anybody or you can’t have an Instagram.” [Laughs] My boyfriend actually deleted his Instagram.

Why?

He hates comments when people are mean. They’re so mean, and they say such hurtful things. So he deleted his first Instagram, but then he was like, “Uh, that was a lot of followers.” Now he has one, but he has no pictures and doesn’t follow anybody. I’m like, “Why don’t you post a picture of me on Instagram?” And he says, “I don’t post any pictures on Instagram, Carly.” And I say, “Well, what if you did? That would be nice if you care a lot about me.” I’m so annoying. I tell him every day I’m the most annoying person in the world. [Laughs]

So, what’s the Girl Code on using dating apps?

I think Tinder is really fun to play with—I’ve used my friends’ before. I think it’s cool because nobody’s feelings get hurt. You can’t message anybody that isn’t interested; you don’t know if somebody doesn’t like you. But you have to be careful. One of my friends is on it, and she keeps going through nightmare dates. I act like such a mom with my friends, “Are you sure it’s really him?” Definitely FaceTime them first. You never know.

So, what will Girl Code be talking about this season?

*We talk about a lot of different things. There’s a girl power episode that talks about feminism and stuff like that, which is a really, really exciting thing. *Are there any topics you want to cover?

I always think we’ve covered everything, and then the next season the writers will come up with great, great stuff. I really like the sketches. I think they’re so fun, and I wouldn’t even be mad if we did more sketches for the shows and did funny field pieces. I always wanted to do something with us undercover at a bar with different cast members to see how we deal with guys on our own or speed dating. That would be so much fun.

Catch Girl Code‘s season premiere tonight on MTV at 11 P.M. ET!