I said elsewhere that writing a good profile is a skill many people have neither the aptitude nor training for, and thus fuck it all up.

Talking to strangers in public? Also a skill, and I'd say a much more difficult one with much higher stakes.

I've known charismatic sensitive people that can read a scene and chat up people. That's an outlier. Most people are bad at all of that.

also, remember the "man or bear? Definitely the bear" thing from a while ago? Still a thing.