Tinder openers

[top-hat]

So I've recently been trying out tinder. I usually say
Hey [name]
Does anyone have any ideas to get a better reply rate, or something which they can work off instead of a " hey, hey, how are you?"

[Phenom]

My friend started using this app. I was in the pub with him where he told some oriental chick she looked like a ladyboy. She was sucking his cock 2 nights later. He is also a ripped monster so I suspect his profile pic has a lot to do with it.

I've not used tinder but my understanding of it is that you put up a pic of yourself and you browse girls pics. If you like them then you like their pic. If they like you back you can talk. Its basically a dating site with a filter. Proceed as you would as with any other dating site. Be direct, but for the love of god dont ever put 'thank you for liking my pic' 'cant believe you liked me back' shit.

EDIT: from a business point of view tinder is quite clever in so much as its a rip off of POF but its marketed at girls in so much as it cuts out creepy weirdos sending them random cock pics, which believe it or not puts them off dating sites. I reckon it has the potential to take off and be quite popular but to make it work for you (as with all dating sites) your going to have to have a really great looking profile pic for girls to like it in the first place. Anyway good luck with it.

[D!ce]

I tried using Tinder the other day, admittedly my profile picture is just something I pulled off Facebook from when I was out so probably not that great. One or two spammers on there, I couldn't be arsed trying openers and the ones that opened me had pretty weak conversation. You're definitely not going to get any success without any effort lol.

[Serendipity]

I installed it the other niight. It hasn't shown me any pics of girls yet. I'm assuming it's not working. Tried reinstalling but still nothing.

[Stein]

I've done pretty well off tinder, and all I ever do is just go 'Hey, how's it going?'. The cool thing about tinder is that girls aren't bombarded by messages as much, plus they alrady liked you, so anything will do to start with really. If you really want to do something a bit different just write anything. Cut the filter and just write bullshit. Stuff I've written includes:

How much does a polar bear weigh? 240 kg. Let's have sex.
That photo of you planking in burger king? That was your Ulysses. Highlight of your life right there.
I liked you. You liked me. Let's get drunk on cheap read wine and bone to Luther Vandross.
'Damn girl, you fine as shit' - Henry David Thoreau
I'd date the shit out of you. Just saying.
You seem like the kind of girl who's last words will be 'hold my beer, watch this'
Let's go get a cup of decaffeinated coffee in a well lit public place. All civilized and shit.
What?

That's only when I've been bored though. Normally I'd just say hi and it's pretty rare that I'll do much else. Remember that an openers just an opener. Regardless of what ever weird shit you say that they can work off it's going to turn into a conversation eventually, and it's actually keeping a conversation going and moving shit forward that's important.

[Barney Stinson]

I haven't been able to use this on my phone yet because, well Blackberry is shit, especially my older version Blackberry.

However, I've had a gander on it on a friends phone and it seems pritty good, think it'll take off very well. Almost a sort of dating-multiformat version of Instagram.

1 thing I will say is that I was reading on a techgeek forum that people were getting the same kind of messages from girls, created a pattern where 5 phrases were used which sparked the question 'are these replies automated?'. Though I'm sure it wouldn't be the same for every girl. But, does anyone think there is any truth in their claims?


On a side track/note, since my phone contract expires in 2 weeks, can anyone recommend a new phone? - Not a Blackberry of course.

[Serendipity]

Originally Posted by Barney Stinson

I haven't been able to use this on my phone yet because, well Blackberry is shit, especially my older version Blackberry.

However, I've had a gander on it on a friends phone and it seems pritty good, think it'll take off very well. Almost a sort of dating-multiformat version of Instagram.

1 thing I will say is that I was reading on a techgeek forum that people were getting the same kind of messages from girls, created a pattern where 5 phrases were used which sparked the question 'are these replies automated?'. Though I'm sure it wouldn't be the same for every girl. But, does anyone think there is any truth in their claims?


On a side track/note, since my phone contract expires in 2 weeks, can anyone recommend a new phone? - Not a Blackberry of course.

Samsung galaxy. Awesome screen, it's very fast, android and much cheaper than an iphone. I'm on my third one.

[face]

Originally Posted by Barney Stinson

1 thing I will say is that I was reading on a techgeek forum that people were getting the same kind of messages from girls, created a pattern where 5 phrases were used which sparked the question 'are these replies automated?'. Though I'm sure it wouldn't be the same for every girl. But, does anyone think there is any truth in their claims?

its very likely POF is lockdown to spammers because the owner used to spam himself and knows all the tricks. If there's a site that hasn't thought about blocking these types then there's going to be spammers plenty to be made with getting people to sign up to dating sites.