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Difficulty navigating vague social media messages from strangers

🧭 worksocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 2/5

A man reports frustration and confusion when women send vague, one-word opening messages on social media, as he struggles to determine their intent without causing offense when he asks for clarification.

Who's affected: The reporter, a man who receives unsolicited, vague messages from women on social media.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A browser extension that provides polite, pre-written templates for asking for context in social media DMs.
  2. A guide or workshop on digital social etiquette for initiating conversations with strangers.
  3. An AI-powered messaging assistant that suggests conversational pivots to move from small talk to meaningful topics.
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Real voices

“I frequently get messages by women (I'm a man) on social media that consist of nothing but Hello or Hi”

Source: Stack Exchange (interpersonal) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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