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In today's day and age, meeting the parents or “hard launching” on social media is no longer a huge milestone of getting serious in a relationship. In the digital age, relationships aren’t official until you save their number in your phone. Until then, many singles keep their love interests an anonymous phone number in a sea of texts from friends, family.
When asked, one man says once you save a name and a number and it’s in your phone, everything is kind of permanent! whereas another person responded with the minute you saved their number, they ghost you and I believe that totally! I have seen it firsthand!
One woman says she recalled a recent third date with a man whose ego was bruised upon accidentally discovering he was merely a number in her cellphone without an assigned contact not so much as a name to differentiate his digits from those of appointment reminders and spam. “He was like, ‘Wow, I thought we were past that,'” she said.
Georgia-based dating coach Benny Lichtenwalner explained that men are more likely to know if they are seriously interested in someone earlier on in the relationship, saving their crush’s number much sooner.
Although, sometimes, devices do us dirty, suggesting their names before we even have the opportunity to decide if we want to add them as a contact. Like on Apple technology, users might be prompted to save their Hinge match’s number with the suggestion “Maybe: John” as the contact title. “Nothing makes me angrier than Apple trying to make decisions for me.”
The conclusion of this looks like it's a general rule of thumb, the Gen Z'er refuses to save a number into her phone before a third date.