You shouldn’t.
He didn’t respond to the first message for a reason.
He may not have liked what you had to say in your message or he may have taken a look at your online dating profile and felt a lack of connection to you.
It can be hard to resist the urge to send a second message because you really like this person based on what you have gathered from their online dating profile, but you must resist it.
Understand that though they may have an online dating profile that really connected with you, this doesn’t mean that upon reading your online dating profile, they will feel the same way about you.
You may get so caught up in the belief that the both of you have so much in common that you may ignore the fact that this person may truly not feel the same kind of connection that you feel.
This is something that is very common in online dating.
After you sent this person the first message on the online dating site, they may have come back to your online dating profile in order to ascertain whether you are someone that they would like to take the time to get to know.
They may have been looking for a few specific requirements that they must have in someone in order to become intrigued by them.
They may not have seen any of those requirements met on your online dating profile.
This doesn’t mean that there is something wrong with your online dating profile.
In fact, you shouldn’t now feel tempted to go back on your online dating profile and change it up just so that you can fit what you believe someone would want to see in an online dating profile.
It is crucial that your online dating profile always reflects who and what you truly are.
If you were to misrepresent yourself simply because you are trying to fit in with the crowd and thereby hopefully be more appealing, you would only attract the wrong matches to you.
Try to avoid sending a second message to this guy if he didn’t respond to the first.
By not responding to the first message, he is most likely sending you the underlying message that he is simply not interested.
There is nothing wrong with this.
This is common in online dating and even in the real world of dating.
Not everyone that you are interested in is going to be interested in you.
That is how dating works in both online dating and the real world.
This is often why dating is a numbers game.
Thereby, try not to be so myopic in who you are sending a message to on online dating sites.
Understand that dating is a numbers game.
Hence, you should always focus on sending more messages to a sufficient number of potential romantic matches simultaneously.
Try not to only fixate on one person at a time.
This causes you to waste precious time and energy on only one person by possibly trying to send them a second message which could lead to a third and a fourth because this person is simply not responding and you are becoming frustrated.
You should also not send a second message if he didn’t respond to the first because he may actually be in the process of going through his messages in order to see which ones he should respond to.
Thereby, he may not be as quick to respond to a first time message because he has got several other messages that he has to work through first.
If you were to prematurely send him a second message simply because he didn’t respond to the first, you may actually turn him off.
He may have actually responded to the very first message once he got to it but because you have now prematurely sent him a second message before he has gotten around to reading or responding to your first message, he gets the notion that you may be desperate.
This may give him the excuse to delete your message and move on to the next.
This isn’t a position you should put yourself in.
You have sent the first message and that is all you need to do.
Spend your time now by focusing on finding other possible matches on the online dating site.
If he comes across your first message and likes it, he will respond to it. If he doesn’t like it, he won’t.
Either way, as long as you are being proactive in finding your match on the online dating site, you ultimately will.