• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    Yeah, maybe this is just an old guy who’s been married for a while’s opinion, but I don’t think you need some mind blowing questions to get to know someone. You can start off with “what are you doing around here” and then look for connections to build up on

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      16 days ago

      Yeah, these strike me as “opening” questions. You ask easy, inoffensive, open-ended questions to get some information to start building an actual conversation around. I’d generally read the terse, information-poor responses as a lack of interest in a conversation.

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      16 days ago

      As someone who also never had to deal with apps, I believe they have to be creative just to stand out. For most of these people, this is all this generation has used, and being mundane and boring is just 1 of like 10 things guys have to pass just to possibly get a date these days. Honestly, I wouldn’t know what to do if I had to use an app because I couldn’t handle being rejected 100 times without ever even knowing why.

      I’ve seen a few YouTube videos where guys tried an experiment. They had a girl they knew try using a fake setup profile where the guy even looks very good and see how many dates a woman can get using it over either a few weeks or a month. By the end, all the women had a way more sympathetic towards what men have to go through. The number of times just being ghosted mid conversation was staggering, and even they were confused as to why it happened so frequently.