The following tips are based on my own experiences. If these work for you, then consider yourself lucky. So here are some of the ridiculous and annoying things guys on dating apps do.

1. Starting with "Hey Princess" or "Hi beautiful" or anything similar.

It's cliche, its unoriginal, and its awkward. If you want to call a girl beautiful, that's fine, but I would wait till at least the second message. Or be specific and comment on something like beautiful eyes or maybe a really cool tattoo? If you say "hey beautiful" do I now have to immediately say something similar back to you? "Hey handsome." I don't like it.

Props to this guy for realizing his first attempt was lame.

2. "You look like the kind of girl who..."

Shut it down. Stop. Nope. No thank you. Please do NOT tell me what kind of girl I look like. Judging someone by their appearance is shitty 95% of the time (unless you've noticed one of my awesome band t-shirts and want to tell me OMG you would love this band too). Making some crazy assumption based on my 5 photos on Tinder, completely ridiculous.

3. Skipping right into fetish or explicit sexual talk.

There are sites for this. I am not on those. When I get a message that immediately is talking about extremely graphic things, it's a HUGE turn off.

Sometimes I just respond with gifs when men are being terrible...

4. One of those long, general, obviously copy/pasted messages.

Bonus loser points if you message me stuff that I could find on your profile.

Ending with "I have my life together" isn't exactly convincing...

5. Using awful pick-up lines.

Sometimes guys can use an awful pick-up line and its funny. Other times I want to crawl out of my own skin.

I'm literally speachless....