The House of Queens

Grindr Conclusion

I am concluding my experiment on Grindr. For my regular readers, you already know that I have been trying to figure out what attracts the men who use Grindr. The methodology that I used was not scientific. “Attraction” is measured by the number of messages I get depending on the picture that I used in my profile.

The last picture that I used is my picture with the Giraffe from Calauit:

This picture yielded good results. It was actually as popular as this picture with Char Siew my Shar Pei:

For both pictures, I get opening messages from men indicating that they find either the Giraffe or Char Siew cute. They then proceed to ask how I am doing and then go back to talking about the picture and the animals in them. After a number of exchanges – that’s when they focus the conversation on me. They ask more questions about me and make an assumption that I love animals ( which is true ).

Why these pictures work:

1. The animals are neutral topics. Men don’t like being rejected and ignored. They seem to know that if they talk about the animals first – they will get attention.

2. These pictures provide a glimpse about my personality. It starts the conversation. It’s a lot harder to approach a man ( even online ) when you don’t really know anything about them.

3. The picture is not intimidating. Depending on whether a person is better looking or not – they can be intimidated by a very good looking face picture. I do get asked for a clearer face picture after a few exchanges – I’m happy that they continue with the conversation even when they see the face picture.

I am finished with my experiment. It was fun to meet new friends while doing it. For now – I will stick with the Giraffe picture.

Globe User Again

I have been a SMART user for the past three years. My personal mobile and my company issued mobile are both with SMART telecommunications. I have two internet connections both on SMART.

Today – this changed. I am no longer an exclusive SMART user. The company phone has switched to GLOBE. This was not unexpected. SMART’s corporate account officers for our company had not been responsive to our requests. The most recent event that triggered the actual switch is our company lines getting disconnected because of inter-departmental non-communication between billing and support of SMART. Our company phones are heavily used by the support people like me so that definitely prompted us to look elsewhere.

GLOBE have had problems in the past year. Their phone lines as well as data lines suffered heavily from their UNLIMITED promotions. Their network could just not handle the added users. They seem to have fixed that. SMART – on the other hand is now playing catch up. As a loyal user – I hope that they catch up fast.