The Worst DMs I Have Received

Have you ever slide into someone's DMs? You probably have, haven't you.

Today, I am choosing to be a little messy. In this post I will share some of the worst Instagram DMs I have received. With this post, I hope you pick up on the do's and don't s of sliding into someone's DM.

Let's dive in:

1. The one liners. The "Hey", "Hi", "Hallo", "Hellow", "Sasa", "Hae", "Morning", "Lost one". How I am lost when I post everyday? Unfortunately, these form 80% of my DMs. Especially on Facebook. In my humble opinion, if your first message to someone is three words or less, you are boring and it shows. You are the definition of bare minimum. No thank you, next!

2. The overeager. They declare their love for you, and you're like, "who are you?"

3. The entitled one. They are strangers on the internet that feel entitled to a conversation with you. Generally if someone doesn’t get back to you within 24-48 hours, they are probably not going to get back to you at all. So sending messages like: "Unanilenga and we once met at New life?", “Hey, can you reply? "Why are you ignoring me?" Hellllooo?” or the back to back 'hey's, are not going to get you any further.

4. The grammar murderer. "Egood garo", "Hwllo", "looking swit", "I love trying also a new life with you", "Hae"

5. The who declares that they want to be friends or get to know you better but does not follow you, read your posts or subscribe to your blog. Make it make sense! Engage someone's content to get to know them and to start an interesting conversation. "Can I get to know you?" Can you speak English?"

6. The one from a pseudo account. Only scammers and trolls don't have profile pictures. I will not engage.

7. The one from an ex. I am not one of those people who are friends with their exes. For me the best case scenario is no contact, at all.

8. The one borrowing money. When you are on social media, people imagine you have more money than you actually do, so you may get these kinds of messages from complete strangers. Or even people you have not spoken to in years.

9. The sexual compliment. It surprises me that I still get a lot of these despite indicating 'married' on my profile. "That your chest mmm i like it", "Walai uninimaliza kabisaa", "Hi buddy🥰. Can I borrow some frictions or self builds please 🙏".We get it — you think a person is hot, and that’s likely why you are sliding into their DMs. While that approach certainly can make some headway with certain people (especially if the person is single, which I am not), it’s not easy to sustain that sort of rapport. Figure something else to compliment them on, whether it’s their amazing sense of fashion, their music taste, or that dress they are wearing in that one picture.

10. The unsolicited picture of your bathing suit area, uurghhh! Block!!! It doesn’t matter who the person you’re trying to internet romance is, you should never start off the conversation with anything sexual.