This is my first MyTake, and it may not be exactly what a MyTake is supposed to be, but here ya go.
I have a little strategy/game for my dating life that I like to call "Tinder Roulette." Disclaimer: I have never had Tinder, and this does not involve using Tinder, the name is just for laughs.
Anyways, here's how it works. My Instagram profile is set on public, and I have two simple things in my bio: my college name and graduation year (ex: LSU '23), and my snapchat (sc:username). This format started in high school because of my inability to come up with a good bio and the irrational hope that the guy I liked would just up and add me on snapchat so we could talk (those sure were the days).
But something curious happens. The school name draws follows from people that also go to my school, either because they want to find some familiar faces or because they're hoping for a follow back solely based on the mutual school (usually works in their favor because I'm a curious person). The snapchat username leads to a slow but relatively steady trickle of random guys who add me on snapchat by search.
Hence the "Tinder Roulette". I'm someone who will talk to just about anyone around my age, at least until they make me uncomfortable or I decide I really just don't want to talk to them anymore. So if someone adds me and starts a conversation, I'll talk to them. Sort of like Tinder; after the initial screening to see if I'll add them back (I might try to find their Instagram or something to see if I have any interest in them, and if yes, this would be the match), someone's gotta message first, and then you see where it goes from there. The roulette part just refers to the fact that you never know who you're gonna get, could be someone cool or a total weirdo, and unless I add people from my end it's really just whatever gets thrown at me, less input from me.
Anyways, I usually talk to them for a bit and see what happens. Especially in the beginning of college, I met a few people like this. One guy ended up being really not for me romantically, but he later set me up with another guy that I did really like. I met up to talk with a couple of them and sometimes they were cool, sometimes we didn't click. Either way, it was a good way to have more familiar faces and connections around campus, especially at a school of 40,000 where I didn't know anyone. I met a guy that I really, really like as a result of this little strategy, so there's a success story for ya.
I do wanna add that I don't take this very seriously, I act like a normal person and meet people naturally as well, I just think it's funny and I jokingly tell my friends I met certain people through "Tinder Roulette." All's well that ends well.
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