At the suggestion of a friend, I’m approaching Tinder slightly differently.

Her suggestion? Start the conversation with “Tell me something interesting.”

I’m pretty ruthless on Tinder and regularly delete people who don’t talk. So, of the 18 matches I recently had, I hadn’t spoken to about 11 of them. Having been out for many cocktails with the aforementioned friend, I took the plunge. All 11 new matches received the opening line: “Tell me something interesting”.

Forty-eight hours later and the results are mixed:

• 5 guys were silent – soon to be disconnected from.
• 1 relayed details of his profile: his eye colour and profession and said “That’s pretty much it,” what a shame.
• 1 had a great story about how he got tyre marks on his bed.
• And the other 4 responded with cheesy flattery.

Let’s extrapolate generic findings from this tiny biased research:

• • 55% of guys on Tinder seem pretty dull.
  • 9% of guys might be interesting.
  • 36% of guys are just interested in getting in girls’ knickers.

Perhaps a different tac is needed.

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