Men's Health

The winking smiley

As a general rule, it’s best to avoid all emoticons when you’re still in the early stages of wooing a girl, but the winking smiley can sound the death knell of your courtship faster than you can say “how do you feel about threesomes?”.

You think: this comes across as fun and cheeky

She thinks: I’m not having sex with you

Hard to imagine that just one little character turns a nice, innocuous “Wanna do something tonight?” into a sleazy “Wanna do me tonight?”. Save your fun and cheeky side for when you’re talking in person.

See also: poking someone you’re into on Facebook

Oct 19, 2012