tl;dr: FR discussing how to keep in contact with tinder girls you haven't met yet without being needy. Stories of success with two in particular.

Body: I'm a mid 20's grad student who travels to a major university a couple times a week for classes. I only have a couple of days and times that work for setting up dates when I'm in town. This has been my main challenge with setting things up, since I'm not there getting drunk on the weekends when they're out. I've had to figure out how to keep girls interested while not badgering them constantly. I've digested everything on TRP for almost two years now, I know the rules, but texting for logistics wasn't working, because the logistics were prohibitive. Snapchat has been huge for maintaining light contact until you can set something up. Here's what I do:

  1. Get the number

  2. Quick text conversation, let it sit.

  3. Next day (or whenever), add her on Snapchat.

  4. Within a couple days, send her a pic of something you're doing that could start a conversation.

Snapchat works for this because of the lack of investment you put in. You may be sending the same thing to 10 other girls for all they know (sometimes you are), but they can't tell. You can use your story to keep girls interested, especially because they're looking at your pic without you sending it to them. I had two examples in the past few weeks of this working, made me realize I might be able to contribute something that may help some of you out without just texting dates and times until things fizzle out.

Example FR: 20 y.o. Other circumstances, I flaked on her twice, figured she was a lost cause after that. She had been watching my story, one day she hit me up with "You have a really interesting life". Even still, our schedules didn't allow us to make plans until one night after class I went out with another girl. When I left, I had a snapchat from her saying I should've visited her at work. Asked if she was still working, she said she was off in 10. I picked her up from work, now she's a plate.

Example 2: The girl who I had been out with that night had been a match a few months ago. We'd stayed snapchat friends but hadn't really talked since then. When we rematched, I simply said "how have we never hung out" (thanks to whoever posted that line on here first, it's a godsend). She immediately said that we should, so I texted her to set it up. This only happened because we'd stayed in touch, but I put no effort into that. She's a plate now too.

Lessons Learned:

  1. SC can help you keep in contact in a non-needy way with all those numbers that you're collecting until you can make the logistics work.
  2. You can use it to make a good impression that makes girls more inclined to meet.