Hello, I am lurking in this sub for quite sometime. I recently broke up and I am trying to get back into dating scene. I am trying my hand at cold approach as well as Instagram. I am optimising my profile on Instagram and did a pretty decent job. For every follow, I get a follow back. The success rates of getting followed back is around 80-85 percent. But that wasn’t enough so I tried getting back into my hobbies. So I started posting on my stories the stuff I was doing daily (clicking pictures aesthetically of the things I was doing), which gave me a good success rate in getting likes to stories and some comments as well (from women). I usually reply to a story a girl has posted, to which she does reply. Now the question I have is escalation from here. I get girls to follow me, I get them to text me back, now how do I move forward from here? I know that texting is just for logistics and should be kept minimal. With this in mind, the people here who are successful on instagram for escalation, how do you escalate. Usually my go to line after few texts back and forth were ‘you seem interesting. Lets see how things go between us if you’re up for it.’ To which I did go on a few dates. I want to know if there is any different approach to this which will make it a success. Also, if admins approve of this, can we make this post a thread for Instagram Guidance and share the knowledge because I can see the question being asked plenty of times but there’s no real answer to it. We can all share our point of views on it.