How to Text a Girl Part II
Endless Conversations Guy
Endless Conversations Guy, hereafter ECG, is usually a CBQG who cleaned up his act. One day he looked at his phone, which was devoid of replies to the texts he’d sent out, and said to himself:
“If I was a girl, how would I respond to a message like this?”
...and in a flash of sudden insight, he realized he’d been doing it all wrong. ECG is, you might say, on a more enlightened plane than CBQG. He’s realized the need to engage a girl in dialogue. And he’s realized girls don’t want to answer clueless boring questions.
Unfortunately, ECG still doesn’t get much further beyond “engage her in dialogue” and there he’s usually stuck. ECG treats his texting like written phone conversations. He doesn’t recognize texting is supposed to be simpler in both language and function He doesn’t know that the more time she spends with him in text chats and the less time she spends with him in person, the worse she feels about him, as researchers found studying teenage couples in 2014.
He never realizes these endless conversations are actually boring, pointless, and inane. He doesn’t realize most girls who engage in these with him are either (a) just doing it because they’re also bored, or (b) just too nice to not send back a response. To him, it feels like he’s unlocked the key to texting girls: just keep texting.
As far as ECG knows, this is just another normal conversation... in which he imagines he is inching his way ever closer to becoming this girl’s beau... every sent text bringing him another couple centimeters nearer her heart....
You can imagine how frustrated he gets when a girl he’s spent so much time with in endless conversations... endlessly dodges his date requests – and how perplexed he is to discover, after weeks or months of conversations, that some other guy has managed to become her boyfriend.
“How can this be?” ECG thinks. “I thought we had such special conversations!”
He’s bewildered... it just doesn’t make sense. Why would she spend SO much time talking to him and then go date someone else?
Really, Incredibly Witty and Interesting Guy
Last but not least is Really, Incredibly Witty and Interesting Guy, henceforth RIWIG. RIWIG is the next stage of evolution after ECG. He’s a man who’s realized that endless conversations don’t work. They’re boring, kill his intrigue, and every guy and his brother engage in them fruitlessly.
RIWIG has more experience with girls than either CBQG or ECG. He knows women react well to humor and prefer interesting bad boys to uninteresting nice guys.
“So,” goes RIWIG’s line of thinking, “what could be better than being a bad boy via text message?”
Most texting advice you’ll see online or hear from friends comes from RIWIGs. They’ve cracked the texting code, they’ll tell you. They’ve figured out how to create the emotions they want in women... desire, laughter, intrigue. Being really, incredibly witty and interesting over text is the way to get girls attracted to you.
And to be fair, RIWIG is far more interesting and captivating than either CBQG or ECG. It’s not even close. RIWIG leaves those guys in his dust. Just as CBQG can’t hold a candle to ECG, ECG’s odds to beat RIWIG in a text fight are about as good as a medieval pikeman’s odds against a Navy SEAL with a minigun and a grenade launcher.
The Fourth Kind of Texter
There’s good news for our heroes Clueless Boring Questions Guy, Endless Conversations Guy, and Really, Incredibly Witty and Interesting Guy. The good news is there’s a fourth texter with a style they haven’t tried out, thought up, or looked into yet.
And he doesn’t need clueless boring questions. He doesn’t require endless conversations. Heck, he doesn’t even need to be all that witty or interesting. All you’ve got to do to use his style is be able to send simple text messages... and tell the girl you want a date with her BEFORE you get her phone number.
If we had to give this kind of texter a name, I think it’d be Just Gets It Guy (JGIG). His style is all about keeping things simple and to-the-point. The truth is, less “natural” media (like email and text messaging) are less satisfying for people to deal with . You want to spend as little time with her in less natural media as possible – and as much time as possible with her in person.
I adopted the JGIG style only after I reached a point where I didn’t have time to engage in long text conversations. I didn’t have time to think up incredibly witty, interesting things to say. And at that point, even when I did have the time, I didn’t care to do all that work anymore.
What I found was, this new style was far more effective.
I started to teach friends how to text girls with this simplistic model of texting. All of a sudden, they were lining up as many dates as they could handle.But a lot of guys still don’t really get it. They’re still trying to mix in CBQG or ECG or RIWIG elements with this style of texting. It’s like taking a gourmet recipe and throwing in extra eggs and baking soda because those ingredients work great in other things you make. The end result is not something better. It’s something worse.
Grand Rules of Texting
Text Messaging ABCs
Our first order of business is to deprogram you from bad texting mentalities, ineffective approaches, and misconceptions. These are the things that make texting harder than it needs to be, causing men to send texts that just don’t work…..to be continued