Nobody's experience generalises, including mine — i would not have believed it a year ago.
My take: if you are seeing identical messages, that is bots or scripts — small thing, but it adds up.
My take: treating it as a numbers game is the fastest route to burning out — it sounds obvious written down, but it took a while to land.
- Rewrote my opening line whenever replies started drying up, and it became second nature
- I made a point of used an email alias I could switch off if the spam started, no exceptions
- Early on I started to compared what three different sites offered on their free tier, and I still do it now
- After one bad experience I stopped apologising for slow replies and just replied
- Measured progress in conversations rather than matches, and it saved me a lot of grief
In my experience, there is no reason to share a surname in the first week — it is not complicated, it is just easy to skip. turndate.site