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    The people weeding out first dates with questionnaires...


    My how things have changed.....


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    Some app users are sending out surveys to screen potential suitors. But can a pop quiz ever lead to love? One night this January, as Robert Stewart scrolled through old Hinge matches, he decided to revive a conversation he had begun months ago with a woman on the dating app. After picking up where they left off and exchanging a few pleasantries, Stewart asked if the woman wanted to get on a phone call. He hoped it would lead to an in-person date. “We could do that,” the woman answered, but with one caveat. “You mind filling out a questionnaire for me first?”


    Stewart, who lives in Dallas, clicked on a Google Form the woman sent, titled “Dating Compatibility Q&A”. The woman wanted to “skip the small talk” and go right for the jugular. If Stewart wanted to go on a date with her – if he even wanted to get on the phone beforehand – he had to answer a series of 26 questions. First question: “Are you married?” Stewart (who, for the record, is not) thought that was fair enough. But then he clicked to the next page, and saw more. Was he in therapy? What was his love language? How does he position toilet paper on the hanger in the bathroom? Does he want kids? If so, what would he do if, hypothetically, a future child came out as gay? Oh, also, here are four sentences. Could he please identify the one that contains a homophone?


    Stewart promptly closed the tab. “It was so absurd to me,” Stewart, who is 32, said. “I messaged her back saying, ‘I’m not answering that.’ This is excessive.” He tweeted about the encounter, joking that dating in 2023 had come to this, though many women replied that they did not blame his match for asking. So, it didn’t work out. But Stewart is far from the first man who has been asked to undergo some screening before moving a conversation from dating apps to real life. An increasing number of people are using forms or scripted questions on dates to weed out romantic time-wasters.


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    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...d-2a0c9c17885c
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    Why can't people just meet one another like they used to?
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    I guess people are getting married later now but my answers would not have scored me any dates at the time.

    No money, still going to school. Lived with 2 other guys and Herman (our iguana).

    Dinner plans = The bar gave you a taco shell for the bar for every beer you bought on Fridays.
    Let's go Brandon !!!

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