Her whole message is three letters. No question, nothing about you, nothing to pick up. Match it and you get "hey" back. The conversation has not started yet, and whether it does is entirely on you.
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Bold. I appreciate a woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to proposition a man with a single word. So, tell me... am I going to have to behave on our first date?
A one-word opener is not a verdict on you — she has not read anything yet. It is what a first message costs on an app where first messages are free. Which means there is nothing to lose and no tone already set that you have to respect. Whatever you decide this conversation is about, it is about, because nothing has been decided. The only losing move is treating three letters as a conversation and asking how her day is going.
Low, because the safe option fails on its own. "Hey back" has a known ending. Anything with a point of view either gets an answer or leaves you exactly where you already were.
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Hey, how are you?
It answers three letters with four and hands the work straight back. Now you are both waiting, and she has even less to write about than before.
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Hey back ;)
Nothing was added. The wink is doing a job a sentence should be doing, and she still has nothing to answer.
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You're cute. What's up?
It spends the compliment before anything has happened, then asks a question with no answer in it. She has been told she is attractive by someone who has read nothing about her, which is not new information.
One line, written for your conversation
The text above works because of what it does, not because of the words. Screenshot the thread and Valerius reads what she actually said, where it stands, and writes the next message in your voice.
