When taking part in online social dating, what are some good alternative greetings I could use instead of the standard "hi"?

If you’re only going from a picture, how about something like, “Hey, Great smile!” Or “Nice eyes!” If there’s more of a profile to work with, I would pick out something they say that interests you and make a comment or ask a question about that.

~ Are you as pathetic as I am?

@RedDeerGuy1 Oh wow haha I have to say that would certainly be original

@RedDeerGuy1 In all honesty, that would put me off.

“I’m interested would you like to meet for a cup of coffee?”
“my name is”” here is what I like about your profile”

I mean regular conversation: being polite, honest and direct are time proven methods.
Gimmicks are just gimmicks, don’t bother.

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@reddeerguy… Putting yourself out there is the opposite of pathetic.

“Let me be the brave one to start a conversation….”

Really, if a guy says somethinf like “say more than hi”, I’d want to start with something like, “what wonderful repartee do you use to open a conversation.”

Pretend you both exchanged some generic greetings, and now it’s an opening for you to say something else.

Sounds like people I would avoid. Now being able to hold a conversation I can understand, but not being able to take a simple “hi”? They’re full of themselves or probably have too high standards.

“We’ll always have Tinder.”

Now that we’ve made it past hi .... something conversational

ASL?

Honestly, if it’s a teenage white boy saying that, they probably want a “Hey big boy wanna trade?”

But, if it’s older guys maybe they want a funny pick up line or a joke or something

“Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just glad I swiped right?”

“I’m 6feet and 7inches…those are two measurements.”

Yeah I’ve just gone back to “Hey how are you?”. But if they have something interesting on their profile I’ll use that as a conversation starter