Dating apps experience

Mind sharing your pictures in a PM if you want feedback?

Mind you I'm far from "FA", but I've been single during my entire student phase. I had a FWB relationship late in my teens and rolled into a relationship that lasted a few years just weeks after I graduated and made connections at my first job. I did use Tinder up till that point, but with no success beyond a very limited amount of matches with useless conversations. After the breakup (about 1.5 years ago now) I started using dating apps again. I knew I didn't have a lot of good pictures so my success was very limited. In about 10 months I had two dates and it just wasn't any good whatsoever.

That's when I went on a trip to the United States by myself. That's when I learned to socialize quite a bit. I'm still not where I want to be, but being entirely alone on a different continent definitely helps to be motivated to approach people. During that trip I made selfies at various locations and a limited set of pictures made by other people.

After flying back I refreshed my dating app accounts with pictures from the trip which I got rated at photofeeler. The best picture of my my older set of pictures received a 6/6/6 for dating and it was taken by a professional photographer. My selfies that showed interesting places, showed that I'm an outdoor person and that I have stories to tell all received ratings in the range of 7-8.

I then came up with a very simple one-line biography that is related to traveling and it suggests an easy opener for girls to open up to me after matching. Since my return and the present I've been on multiple dates, have 4 digit matches and I have multiple girls initiating a conversation every week with almost all of them referring to my biography line. I don't even bother opening up first myself, because the ones that do are clearly interested, which puts me at an advantage. It's like applying for a job vs being asked for it and only having to deal with a salary discussion.

/r/ForeverAlone Thread