Five must-have tips on how to flirt with a guy through text messages
Magazines like Seventeen and Cosmo have been running articles on how to pick up a guy for years. But there’s a new way to flirt, and while some of the old rules still apply, it can be hard to know how to flirt effectively via test messages. Here are five tips every girl should know on how to flirt with a guy on her cell phone.
Keep the batteries charged! Okay, now that sentence in a traditional women’s magazine article could mean many things, but here it refers solely to the battery of your cell phone or PDA. If you want to know how to flirt with a guy on your phone, you must have a powered phone to practice on. There’s also nothing quite as infuriating as being in the middle of a hot text heavy flirt conversation and having your phone die! Imagine what the guy on the other end of the line might be thinking in this scenario.
Timing is everything. Every girl who has given someone advice on how to flirt with a guy knows that one of the most important things is that you have to maintain a certain level of calm. Looking desperate is never a good thing when flirting. So, be careful about the hours you send flirty text messages to your crush. For example, the 3:00 am text might seem a bit needy.
Repetition is not always wise. Every girl who has studied her ABC’s of how to flirt with a guy knows that no respectable cool girl calls a guy repeatedly unless he calls her back. But there’s just something about the ease of flirting over text that pushes all the nasty buttons in our heads. No matter how tempting it is, limit your text flirt to one really good line and wait for a response. Fifty text messages in an hour won’t do much for your cool and desirable image!
Be careful with those abbreviations. When texting or using online message boards or chat rooms, there are some standard abbreviations that most users know or can figure out. By the way, for “by the way” and LOL for “Laugh out loud” are just two examples of this. However, one thing you shouldn’t do when flirting with a guy is make up your own abbreviations. If he can’t understand what you’re saying, your flirting will be completely ineffective. The best rule of thumb to follow is not to use abbreviations that you don’t regularly see online.
Less is definitely more. You don’t know where your crush might be when they get your text or how busy they might be. If you send him a book, he is less likely to read your text. Try to keep it short and very funny or very sweet.
Every girl should know how to flirt with a guy, and in this technological age, every girl should know how to flirt with a guy over text!
So get out your cell phone and start practicing!