Move on or follow up? (online dating)

[jpbomba21]

Quite new to online dating and I'd matched up with someone who I thought had a good back and forth with.  We'd been talking for a few days with pretty detailed replies and questions.  The last exchange I replied to a question that they asked and asked my own, and was actually thinking of asking to meet depending on how the response went.

However, it's now been a few days and I've not heard anything and am not really sure what to do.  I'm aware these things happen with online dating so don't want to overthink it.  Part of me thinks to just leave it and move on, but another part thinks it might be worth sending a follow up maybe asking of they wanted to meet for coffee?  If it was just one message and nothing I would leave it, but it looked like it was genuine interest to me, but maybe I'm wrong.

Any advice is appreciated.  Thanks,

[FredEire]

No reason not to shoot your shot, but dont expect much.

Its very common in online dating that someone will act interested at first and just get bored quickly. Usually if it is really on they will show interest consistently.

[Sony12]

Sure go ahead and send a follow up message but if they don't reply back or just give a very quick and short reply best to move on from it.

One thing to remember about online dating is that most people ignore 80% of people and everyone wants to talk to that remaining 20%. So that 20% of people usually have their choice of who they want to talk to (especially women). 

People who have nice looking pics and seem charismatic and conversational are often talking to several people at once. And just through personal experience as someone who gets a lot of attention on dating apps I usually shorten the list from time to time because it gets to the point to where you are talking to just too many people and it takes up too much of your time. I'm sure most others who get a lot of attention online do the same.

Edited 11 hours ago by Sony12