They ask you towards the back end of the sign up process to answer a series of questions so you match with potential dates better but you can easily skip that part. I don’t really see a benefit to doing it because these online relationship predictor tests can be pretty goofy. Who cares if I’m “more likely” to read a book instead of party?

Tinder, WTF?! I first heard of Tinder in May. I was the keynote speaker at the Matchmaker’s Conference cruise and saw a PowerPoint presentation of all the dating sites and apps that have recently gained in .

Close Past Groupers on a night out. Grouper Dating is awkward. And while internet dating theoretically makes it easier to get that first date, it doesn’t do a huge amount to reduce the uncomfortable reality of sitting with a stranger casually trying to discover if you like each other. But as online dating has evolved, it has steadily chipped away at some of those problems. What started as a simple online version of the small ads you would find in the back of a newspaper began to get smarter at matching couples.

Next to go was the barrier of signing up and filling in a profile, as the next generation of mobile apps started lifting information straight from social networking sites. The final hurdle, it seems, is the date itself. Perhaps that’s why the concept of group dating has been independently conceived numerous times. In Japan, it’s known as gokon: In Oxford and Cambridge universities, similar meetups called, respectively, crew dates and formal swaps are arranged between sports teams from different colleges.

Now, in 25 US cities — and, from January, in London — a small startup called Grouper is introducing the idea yet again. The way a Grouper date works is simple enough. You and two friends of the same sex sign up through Facebook and pre-buy the first round of drinks.