It's a brand new year and Valentine's Day is right around the corner, which means we've got a new reason to redownload Bumble and hop back on the dating bandwagon...
Whether you’re a seasoned Bumble user or new to the dating app that encourages women to make the first move, it can be tricky to decide on an opening line that’ll take you beyond, ‘Heyyyy *waving hand emoji*’. Seriously, when did making conversation with someone new become so hard that it requires 22 WhatsApps to the group chat between every response?
But don't you panic just yet: making the first move is a good thing. It enables you to start the future relationship off on a more even keel. After all, we're in the 21st century, people - we should be messaging first. As therapist and author Dr Lauren Cook says, 'It's so important that women know what they value in a partner and that they unapologetically look for those qualities when dating.'
So if you're someone who is tired of waiting around for someone else to make the first move, then Bumble is a great place to take matters into your first hands. You may even find that confidence really pays off.
And with that in mind, we’ve scoured the internet to find some seriously funny, cute and downright creative Bumble opening lines, which might just help you take that match off-app.
Our Favourite Bumble Opening Lines:
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1. By the looks of the above opener, some people go mad for a bit of cheese. Thankfully in this day and age, we are more than welcome to use emojis as a crutch. The good news is there are lots to choose from, and corn and 'your mum' jokes might be a great place to test out your match's sense of humour.
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2. Never overlook the classics. Sometimes a good old pick up line is a great way to start a conversation on a dating app. On Bumble, your match has 24 hours to respond when you first message, and as you can see from the above opening line, it's good to make an impact.
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3. Play on your match's name. These are not everyone's cup of tea (especially if you're called something like Hope and have heard 'I Hope to take you out' a thousand times), but name-based jokes are a nice way to make an opening message feel more personal.
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4. Do your worst! Dating apps are where you can be your most outrageous Dad-joke self. That means making multiple Dinosaur jokes with strangers – some people will go wild for them.
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5. Present a challenge. Rather than just saying 'hey, how are you?', why not challenge them to a brain teaser or flex with your Wordle score instead.
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6. Get your mates involved. Sometimes it can get a bit boring doing all that scrolling on your own with no one to laugh about the weird messages with. Why not take a leaf out of Nicki's book and pretend you have a selection committee working away to suss out their profile.
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7. Dive in with a hard-hitting question. Although encouraging images of toilets is not a fool-proof flirting method, Erin has opened up the chat and cut out all the boring small talk. This might just work for you too.
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8. Another name-based classic. You can see a pattern forming here... It won't be the first time Romain has heard this joke, and it won't be the last. But it may well have bagged him an incredible date with a stranger he wouldn't have otherwise met.
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9. Greet and delete! These days, a lot of people use dating apps just to find someone nice to go on a date with but they don't want weeks of flirtatious messaging and guessing when the other person is going to reply. Go right in there and ask to meet up.
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10. We told you emojis would come in handy. This is a classic dating app opener, but your date may not have heard it before. And even if they have, it will show you've got a sense of humour.
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11. Let's ignore Evan's reply for just a moment. This is an undeniably good opening line: confident, playful and engaging. We can't promise everyone will reply like Evan did though.
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12. Throw them off guard! This is a disarming opening line that is bound to have put a smile on Richard's face. Not only that, but it probably helped them take their chat off Bumble pretty quickly so they could start texting and set up a date.
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13. Find out what their passions are. If money was no object, what would they be doing? It's an interesting question that reveals a lot about a person. So asking how they'd spend the jackpot is a good place to start.
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14. If you love food, lead with it. A lot of people feel the same way and if you send an important question like the above one and get a rubbish reply, you'll know they're not the person for you.