"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Even if you consider yourself bold, confident, and an expert at flirting in person, sliding into ...

As relationship expert and general life guru Yo Gotti often says, it goes down in the DM. Social media has grown to touch every corner of our lives in recent years, so it makes sense that one of the ...

Even after a thorough cyber-stalk through their Instagram grid, it can still be difficult to figure out the best way to send your crush a DM. Plenty of people tend to get anxious about their approach ...

Erin Carson covered internet culture, online dating and the weird ways tech and science are changing your life. Expertise Erin has been a tech reporter for almost 10 years. Her reporting has taken her ...

Whether your crush is one of your best friends, a classmate, a friend of a friend, someone you've never actually met IRL, or Chris Evans himself, the DMs are typically a common and safe place to make ...

Instagram rolled out a new update on Tuesday that makes the app extremely similar to Snapchat -- like, really really similar. Here's the explanation of the update, per USA TODAY: ...the Facebook-owned ...

Ilana*, 24, who lives in New York City, met her boyfriend because he slid into her Instagram DMs. As the story goes, she listed her Instagram handle in her Bumble dating profile, and he found and ...

Sliding into somebody's DMs is no doubt a scary task. And if you don't know them at all, or you vaguely do but haven't messaged before, then it can be even more daunting. How do you start a ...