The conversations went so well on a dating app, you both decided to exchange social media handles.

At first, the conversations on social media resembled those on a dating app.

But it didn’t take long for those conversations to start getting stale.

All of a sudden, you were working harder to keep those conversations going.

His enthusiasm was fundamentally waning.

He wasn’t initiating as many messages nor flirting as much.

Inevitably, the conversations fizzled out until they were no longer existent.

To make things worse, you have since checked his activity on the dating app, and he remains active.

Basically, he didn’t completely fall off the face of the earth.

This is not the first time this has happened to you whenever matching with someone on a dating app.

It’s as though social media is where conversations go to die.

Where you are going wrong is that you are spending too much time in the talking stage.

A match is prone to losing interest when you spend too much time chatting online, whether it be on a dating app or social media.

Once you have established good conversational rapport with a match on a dating app, the next move should be to meet up in person.

This should be done within a week of matching with him.

This saves you from risking a match losing interest and filters through the men who are only using dating apps to talk to women for a while but have no intention of ever meeting them in person.

By using this approach to online dating, you make the most of your time and energy and get more dates.

Additionally, social media has a knack for changing the perception of what someone thinks of you.

In exchanging social media handles with a stranger from a dating app, you are letting someone into your life who doesn’t know you all that well.

It’s too much too soon.

Before this, there was a mystery to you.

He didn’t know all that much about you.

This kept him hungry and intrigued about what else he would discover about you over time.

Once he gains access to your social media, that mystery is lost.

He gains access to too much information about you.

Remember, despite being a match, he is a stranger.

You are in the process of getting to know each other better.

Once you take away the mystery by giving him access to your social media, there isn’t much else for him to learn.

This forces him to lose enthusiasm for the process.

Conversation suffers as a result.

It fizzles out, leaving you with the burden of having to keep them going.

Inevitably, your efforts are to no avail, and the conversation dies entirely.

If you can, avoid exchanging social media handles until you have met each other in person at least once.

This gives him a real-life impression of who you are as a person.

A real-life impression that is profound has a lasting impression.

It makes him want to be around your physical presence again, even if he gains access to your social media.