Getting Girls Phone Numbers via Online Dating

The reasons so many men ask for womenâs phone numbers online usually fall into two categories:

1. Theyâre inexperienced betas and donât know any other way of closing the deal.

2. Theyâre experienced Alpha Males or even PUAs with a lot of daygame or night game experience who have been trained that getting the ânumber closeâ is of paramount importance. Which it is when youâre doing real-life cold approach.

But as these very guys like to often scream about, online dating isnât real-life cold approach. Some of the rules are different. Not all, but some.

One of these rules is that generally speaking (and of course there are always exceptions to the rule, and these exceptions prove the rule), you will get better statistical results from online dating if you actually pitch and schedule the first meet before you exchange phone numbers or other contact information.

I know that sounds counter-intuitive, especially if youâre coming from the two-step daygame or night game worlds, but remember weâre talking about women here. If you want women to make logical sense all the time then youâre in for a very rough life.

I have been on literally hundreds of first dates via online dating over the last 12 years. (I actually pulled up the spreadsheet tracking for that to get the raw data for this article. God damn, Iâve been on a lot of first dates!) The only time I got these dates by getting a womanâs phone number first and then figuring out the date is less than 3%. That means the other 97% of these dates I got by at least agreeing to a first date/meet to some degree and then getting the phone number (or other means of communication; more on this in a minute).

So thatâs lesson number one. Stop asking for womenâs phone numbers online until and unless you have gained at least some agreement from her that yes, she is indeed going to get in some kind of vehicle and travel somewhere to meet you in real life. Then you can exchange phone numbers.

The best way to do this is to offer your phone number first. I never ask for a womanâs phone number online. Again, too threatening. Instead, once I get some kind of agreement to the date pitch, I say something like this:

âCool! You can text me if thatâs easier. Or I can text you. xxx.xxx.xxxxâ

Do I have times where this doesnât work and women instantly vanish? Sure. It happens all the time. But statistically, your results will be orders of magnitude better than just asking for a girlâs number without any discussion of meeting up in real life.

Alternate Forms Of Contact

The next problem is that there are now a bazillion different ways you can contact a woman. This was very different than 10-12 years ago when it was simply a matter of phone numbers and maybe some kind of IM software like Yahoo Messenger.

Today, women communicate on apps like:

• Snapchat
• Whatsapp
• Kik
• Instagram
• Facebook Messenger
• Facetime
• And so on

Some of you guys need to understand that phone numbers arenât necessary anymore. Moreover, many women prefer to communicate on these other apps instead of normal texting to a phone number. A few recent examples:

1. Twice now Iâve had women on Bumble instantly ghost me as soon as I said I didnât have Facetime. (I use an Android phone.)

2. A while back on a sugar daddy site, I met up with and had sex with a much younger Type 2 woman (a very cute blonde; my favorite kind) without paying her anything. She was interested in older guys and had plenty of other older guys message her. Yet, I was the only guy she met up with. When I asked her why, her answer was telling. She said, âNone of these older guys have Snapchat. You were the only one who did.â

Indeed, when I got an agreement that she was interested in meeting me, I offered her both my phone number and my Snapchat ID. No other guy had ever done that. She even laughed when she said one guy told her she should âemail him.â

3. I had a similar scenario on a different dating site/app (I donât remember which) when the girl, who had just moved here from South America, said she met up with me because I was the only American guy she had talked to (so far) who actually used Whatsapp.

So, based on all the above (and many other examples I could tell you from guys who email me), you could and perhaps should modify the statement I used above to something like this:

âCool! You can text me if thatâs easier. Or I can text you. xxx.xxx.xxxx. Iâm also on Snapchat if you prefer that. My ID is xxxxxxx.â

Often, sheâll respond with, âMy snap is xxxxx.â Boom, hit her up on Snapchat and youâre off to the races.

Obviously, this means you need to be on these apps and somewhat familiar with them. Some of you older bastards in my age group have a problem with this. I keep running into guys over age 35 who want to date younger women but barely know what Snapchat is, much less actually have the app on their phones and know how to use the damn thing.

You should consider Snapchat and Whatsapp as bare minimums, plus perhaps two or three others that are popular in your area. Get these apps, set up accounts, and learn how to use them, regardless of how dumb, immature, redundant, or frivolous you think these apps are (which, to a great degree, they are). As always, I donât care what you think; you need to do what needs to be done in order to be effective. Or go home and jerk off to porn.

What about social media? What happens if a woman tells you to add her on Facebook or Instagram? Should you do it?

In my experience, this is the online equivalent of a woman asking you to âcome see her at work!â for the first date/meet because sheâs a stripper. In other words, sheâs interested in your attention rather than your cock.

Iâm not saying there arenât ways to get laid using social media. There certainly are. (I talk about some of them in The Ultimate Online Dating Manual, and perhaps that would be a good topic for a future article here. Instagram in particular, is becoming a gold mine for some guys.) Iâm saying that if you attempt to contact close a woman online and the only thing she throws at you is her Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter page where she can add you to the other 4,000 drooling, hungry beta males who will never have sex with her, youâre better off moving on to other women.