It goes without saying that our world is overrun by social network. Everyone, even our parents, have a Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. This is great because you can see what your old friends from high school are up to, your grandma can call you when she sees a picture of you holding a beer, and you can keep up with social events that you plan to attend.

But the best thing about social media is often overlooked. I'm talking about the ability to slide in the DMs.

For those of you that do not know the definition of "sliding in the DMs," it is when you send a direct message to someone on social media confidently and smoothly, with hopes of acquiring further social interaction with the person, often in a romantic manner.

In my time on social media and interaction with my friends I have seen many attempts to slide into DMs, some successful and others not so much. After figuring out what doesn't work and what could work; I have developed a few tips to make your next attempt have a higher chance of success.

First off, if you're going to slide into a girl's DMs, you have to creep on her social network profile first and make sure she doesn't have a boyfriend. You don't want sliding into the DMs to turn into sliding face first into a gravel parking lot due to a swift kicking of your ass by her boyfriend. Trust me.

So after you have made sure she does not have a boyfriend who is bigger than you, you can begin your attempt to slide into the DMs.

There are different directions you can take this, but I have found in my attempts that being comical is the best way to go. Mainly because if it doesn't work you can just play it off like you don't care anyway because you were just being funny.

Basically, never be too serious when you're doing a DM slide. Nobody likes that.

What you're going to want to do is hit her with a flattering yet funny pick up line to start off the conversation. For example, "Did you invent the airplane? Because you are looking Wright for me." This is golden, it makes her feel good about herself and it also has a pun, which is awesome.

You're more than likely going to get a successful response from this. Something like, "Haha omg! That was so cute!"

Boom. Successful slide. Proceed to engage further and get her number, and if you need help doing that then you have bigger problems.

But what do you do if the slide is unsuccessful? Because that can be a disaster.

Well, sliding into DMs is man's work and if you're already scared to fail then don't even try doing it. You can't hit anything if you don't, at least, shoot at it. But here is a tip to get out of a failed slide.

If you ever get a little too confident and send a DM that winds up not working or even worse, offends her, you have to figure out how to get out of there. At this point, there really is not much you can do to save the slide; so I have found one simple phrase to message back: "Sorry, that was my friend Bo." Send that, get the hell out of there, delete the thread, and try again another day.

See how simple all of this is? Now next time that girl likes your picture on Instagram or shows your next tweet some love you can confidently slide in the DMs and figure out what's up.