The 30 worst messages to send on a dating app - are you guilty of using them?

Dating apps can be a tricky minefield to navigate for many, with a lack of face-to-face communication often making people anxious or not knowing what to say. 

New research may help apprehensive daters overcome their fears, as a survey has revealed the worst things you can message someone on a dating app.

Research of 2,000 single Briton commissioned by dating app Breeze and conducted by Perspectus Global found that more than half (56 per cent) of UK singles insist monotonous messaging is hard work and awkward, while 40 per cent are bored of it.

If you're looking to make a connection, with a simple 'send pics' voted the rudest (45 per cent), closely followed by a single aubergine emoji (44 per cent)

One in five (20 per cent) compare messaging on a dating app to doing admin, while a tenth (11 per cent) compare it having a second job.

New research may help apprehensive daters overcome their fears, as a survey has revealed the worst things you can message someone on a dating app (File image)

Research of 2,000 single Briton commissioned by dating app Breeze and conducted by Perspectus Global found that more than half (56 per cent) of UK singles insist monotonous messaging is hard work (File image)

Tiresome chat is such a turn-off for the nation's daters that just three dull texts are enough for people to lose interest in someone completely.

And interest starts to wane straight away with 89 per cent saying that a dull opening message sets a bad first impression.

'Hey sexy what's your number?' (40 per cent) and 'You're so hawt' (34 per cent) both feature in the top 30 cringiest, dullest or most unimaginative texts.

Four in ten (38 per cent) wince when they receive 'Without me?' when they say they are going for a shower, while a third (34 per cent) feel embarrassed upon reading 'Phwoarr', according to the research

The classic 'Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?' (34 per cent), 'What u wearing?' (33 per cent), 'Imagine what our children will look like' (29 per cent) and 'I have serious co-dependency issues' (28 per cent) also raise red flags.

Seeing if a friend in your pictures has an Instagram account (32 per cent) also makes daters feel queasy, along with asking a match to 'Tell me why I should go on a date with you?' (24 per cent).

Three quarters (76 per cent) admit they have lost interest in someone who messaged too often, so if you're going to suggest meeting up, you'd better do it before 10 messages as this is the maximum number that daters will tolerate before cutting someone loose.

One in four (22 per cent) confess that they worry they won't have anything to talk about on the date if they message too much. 

Meanwhile, a further 16 per cent worry that texting a lot can lead to 'pen pal' territory - messaging with someone who seems interested but never wants to meet up in person.

In fact, four in ten daters have had a pen pal with singletons writing to an average of six in their dating lifetime.

One in five (20 per cent) compare messaging on a dating app to doing admin, while a tenth (11 per cent) compare it having a second job (File image)

In contrast, six in ten (59 per cent) have been happily messaging away only for the match to cut contact entirely without any explanation. On average UK daters have felt the sting of being ghosted seven times.

But it's not love at first sight meeting someone face-to-face either, with over half (53 per cent) declaring that after spending weeks flirting with a match, when they eventually met them, they didn't fancy them at all.

It's no surprise that two thirds (63 per cent) wish there was a way to avoid all the messaging and go straight to a meet up.

Marco van der Woude, co-founder of Breeze said: 'It's clear from the research that first impressions are so important and so many people waste this on an awful opening messaging on a dating app which ends the spark before its even started.