Clever ways to smoothly slide into your crush's DMs

Shoot your digital shot. Go ahead.

As much as social media is easy to use, the aspect of sliding into your crush’s DMs is not so easy. Number of thoughts run through your mind. Calculations are made. Even though you keep up to date with their social media, starting a conversation can be pretty daunting. We get it. We have all been there.

It is natural to get anxious about the first contact. Do you be direct? Start with a pick up line? Or simply react to their stories. Whatever the approach, the key is to be your genuine self. Thanks to the pandemic, people are more into social media than ever before. E-dating, online dating and online romance is quite a thing even. Texting and social media are great way to get to know someone and shoot your shot at your crush. Even if you don’t know them personally, there’s nothing wrong about sending the first text to see how they react. Who knows? Things might get interesting from there.

Here are clever ways to smoothly slide into your crush’s DMs.

Reacting/Replying to their stories

The safest possible way is to respond to one their stories, Don’t just react with emojis, write out an actual sentence instead.

Don’t start with “Hey”

Plain “Hey” “Hello”, “Hello beautiful” will defo make you come off as a creep. So let’s not do that.

Ask questions; but not like you are interrogating them

Questions are a great way to engage in a conversations. But don’t just hurl questions at them like you are interrogating them. Wait for them to ask questions as well. Throw in a GIF, meme in between to keep things light.

If they are an acquaintance, talk about a mutual friend

A great way to start. Say they have posted a story with one of your mutual friends, you could strike up by saying how you have missed the mutual friend and plan to meet them soon.