'I couldn’t flirt with these men in real life. But pop the buffer of an iPhone screen in front of me, and I become Marilyn Monroe. The nervous, anxious girl suddenly turns into a world-class flirt over Instagram,' writes maria_delrusso
Photo: PM Images/Getty Images Even though I write about sex and relationships for a living, I am absolute shit at just about anything having to do with dating. I am the living embodiment of that old phrase “those who can’t do, teach.” Online dating gives me anxiety. I question pretty much every text message I ever send a member of the opposite sex. And, if I really like a person, I 100 percent lose the ability to flirt.
Recently, I had a conversation with a friend in which she mentioned the magic of Instagram DM for flirting. She went on to talk about the dude in Berlin who she planned to meet up with during an upcoming trip to Europe, but my mind was elsewhere: I realized that I, too, used Instagram this way. And I was pretty good at it.
I couldn’t flirt with these men in real life. But pop the buffer of an iPhone screen in front of me, and I become Marilyn Monroe. The nervous, anxious girl suddenly turns into a world-class flirt over Instagram.
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