Everyone puts a lot of thought into what they say to get that first date from Tinder, but it turns out how you say it is more important. In a new survey, the dating service Zoosk found that poor grammar is the biggest online dating deal breaker.
In the survey of over 9,000 people, 72% of online daters said spelling errors are a turn off and 48% consider poor grammar a deal breaker. Misspelling your “hey what’s up” message or leaving out that apostrophe signals that you’re either too busy, too lazy, or don’t really care. Obviously that’s not very attractive.
Giving your message a quick proofread can not only avoid turning off your prospective partner, but it can actually turn them on. The survey found that a whopping 93% of daters said adding a period to the end of each sentence can make them think better of their match.
If you’re really going for the gold, the survey says you should include an exclamation point in your introduction. Daters who did so were 10% more likely to get a response.
The moral of the story here is that if you’re looking for your future SO, make sure you know the difference between “your” and “you’re,” and probably don’t call them bae.
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