But mixtapes and personalized playlists take a lot of time, effort, and knowledge of someone else's taste - which you might not have in the first few weeks of dating. Like the mixtapes of our forefathers, sharing music is still the hottest way to tell someone you're into them. The only way I actually want anyone to flirt with me online is with a Spotify blend playlist. I firmly believe you can tell immediately when someone has a new crush because they start posting on their Instagram Stories about 10 percent more often.įor me, all of that is, at its core, boring as hell.
Hitting on people now transcends the apps, in an inarguably humiliating combination of tasteful thirst traps, subtweets, and carefully curated emoji reactions. The digital era has revolutionized how we flirt.