[raverbashing]

Men answer like this because of bots/spammers. Nobody is going to message something serious first

And every conversation starts with a hello. Sure, if it gets boring after then it's a diff issue

[stouset]

Men answer like this for the same reason women do: it requires essentially no effort.

Bots are generally easy to spot. Coming up with something at least semi-relevant the person’s profile is not much harder than a “hey” for the type of person who shows enough personality on their profile to be interesting in the first place.

Your success rate will easily shoot up 5x from the baseline of “hey” by saying something even remotely interesting.

[raverbashing]

Women could also answer first, if they were interested