The DM Slide

Difficulty	★★★★☆ (4 of 5)
Equipment required	Two phones. One excellent first message, drafted in the Notes app. A plausible reason to be online at this hour.
Recommended for	Recent acquaintances. Practitioners with no overlapping calendar. Anyone who has just liked something from 2017.

Practitioner’s note

The DM Slide is a position of approach rather than completion and ends, in most variants, before the Society’s usual analysis begins. It is included in the catalogue out of completeness and out of respect for the practitioners who, once started, see it through. Recipients are encouraged to respond on a timescale of their own choosing or not at all.

Common mistakes

Sending two in a row.
Beginning with “Hey — random question.”
Ending with a screenshot of the first message.

The Society does not endorse any of the foregoing. The Society is, in fact, fictitious. See the notice.