Does it Go Down in the DMs?

By AJ Shopa
February 10, 2016

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Twitter is a popular place to “slide in the DMs.” Photo submitted by Anthony Shopa

In this day and age, technology has begun to take over even when it comes to people finding love. With applications like Tinder and websites like Match. com, it is easy for people to find one another without even leaving their house. When it comes to the current generation, we are currently in everything is about speed. How quickly it will download, how quickly we can communicate, so when it comes to finding a date why not take to the Internet and find a nice date.

The newest thing to come to social media is “sliding into DMs”. This is pretty much when one finds a person on social media and send them a direct message to get their attention. Usually when people think of sending a direct message, they think of a creepy dude sitting at home looking through all of their old Facebook pictures and finally says the creepiest line a guy can say to a single girl over social media “hi”.

Here is a quick fact.

It is not just guys doing the sliding into the messages girls can get caught doing it, as well.

“I was just kind of relaxing in my room just had gotten back from a night out and I get a Facebook message with just a girls number and a winky face at about 2 am,” Brad Fagan, senior criminology major said. “No way was I going near that.”

It seems there is a direct trend between girls sliding into direct messages and going out.

“I was having some people over and after everyone leaves I get a message on Twitter asking if she could come down and hangout,” Anthony DiMartino, junior accounting major, said. “It was like almost 3 am at this point and I was going to bed.”

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Yo Gotti released a song about getting pictures through DM.

Don’t be too down about it everyone gets caught going to a person’s DMs no matter how rich or famous they are, they can still get caught. For example we have big time celebrities like James Franco, Drake, and Wiz Khalifa. When one is a celebrity the slide can either go really well or really bad. There is no in-between. The person is either in love with the celebrity or the screen shot of that conversation will have a celebrity  slide right into the tabloids.

The move of sliding into a girls direct messages is so popular that rap artist Yo Gotti made a song called, “Down in the DMs”. This song would have people believe that sliding into another persons direct messages can only mean one thing and that it can only go positively but that isn’t always the case.

“I got a message on Facebook and it seemed harmless, so I replied back hey and then the next message he asked to see pictures of my feet,” Amber Dietrich, junior social work major, said. “That’s when I knew I probably shouldn’t talk to him anymore.”

There are a lot more scary stories when it comes to sliding in the direct messages of some one, but there could also be some love stories in there too.

In a hook-up generation like today, the convienance of DMs makes it very easy to find multiple partners. However, those who look for love may just find it if they slide into the right places.

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