Guys are far more comfortable showing interest in a girl online and on dating apps than they are doing it in real life.

A guy worries about rejection a lot and how much it hurts.

It is easier for him to send a like or message to you online and on dating apps, as this is less personal and a rejection from you isn’t anywhere near as hurtful as it would be if he received a rejection from you in real life.

He didn’t have to see you look at him in disdain or hear the words of rejection from your voice as he would have if you had rejected him in a real-life setting.

Online and on dating apps, you are comprised of a set of digital images.

With this, there is a buffer between you and him that creates an impersonal nature to the online experience, which makes it easier to show an interest in you.

Also, given the sheer volume of women online and on dating apps, there is a notion of there being a digital landscape of endless possibilities.

With this mindset, it is easy for him to move on from a rejection to a new woman whose digital image captures his attention.

When you are online and on dating apps, a guy also has the ability to see that much more information about you.

Besides attractive photos online and on dating apps, the information you include gives him more insight into who you are as a person.

He wouldn’t have this kind of advantage were he to meet you in real life instead.

In real life, you are someone he doesn’t know of whom he has next to no information on, save what you might be wearing or something he overhears.

Whereas, when he sees you online and on dating apps, there is far more information about you that he can then use to ascertain whether there are common interests and life experiences.

If he sees photos of you hiking and he loves to hike in his own personal life, he instantly has something he finds in common with you.

Knowing that he has a common interest with you makes him feel that much more of a connection with you.

Since he already loves to hike, it’s easy for him to like a photo of you hiking, which consequently leads to him having more of an interest in seeing more of your photos and posts.

As he gets deeper into your online profile and learns more information about you, he can find more things in common with you, which compels him to send a like or message to show his interest in you.

In real life, a guy doesn’t have access to all of this information about you.

This gives him little to go on, which discourages him from showing an interest in you.

On top of this, your outward body language isn’t all that inviting.

You aren’t making eye contact with him or smiling.

With this kind of closed-off body language on your end and his preeminent fear of rejection, he is far less willing to risk showing an interest in you.