8 Women Share The Online Dating Hacks That Actually Work For Them

Online dating is complicated. And while we hear success stories of couples who found love in a hopeless place (i.e. Tinder, Bumble, whatever), achieving relationship gold seems pretty impossible when you’re in the thick of swiping left and right.

And once you do match with a few lucky dudes, you’ve got to weed out the winners from the ones who think a great opening line is, “Yo.”

Since no one has time to deal with all that nonsense, we talked to women about how their strategies make the online dating world slightly less maddening and monotonous—and asked them to send screenshots of how these tactics really go down IRL.