How can I be more interesting when texting the girl I like?

Question

When I first asked her out she'd text me almost every morning and said she wanted me to text her more at night. I don't know if its the age difference (I'm 28, she's 21) or what, but I had never used text messaging before so I'm not that comfortable with what to say.

After a while our messages started going like this "hi, what r u up to? Doing x,y,z. cool, what r u doing? x,y,z" or "have a nice day, thank you"

I see her getting text messages all the time and laughing as she reads them and texting back with a smile on her face. What are these people saying that's so funny?

How often should I text her and what should I say to spice it up a bit and be more interesting? For example, she's at Disney right now so I was thinking of texting her about whether she's having a good time, but then I thought she'll say yes and then what?

She said she loves to laugh and she likes it when guys tease her, but I don't know how to do that in a text message.

What is the proper texting etiquette?

Answer 1

I love to text lyrics of songs that I know the textee will recognize. Also, sarcasm (used in moderation) can help. But definitely, hang out, have inside jokes (if either of you do something funny, jokingly tease about it later on). The beauty behind messaging, for many people, is they can be someone other than themselves, because it is so easy to play off if the textee misreads it. Like, oops sent it to the wrong person, or something lame like that. ;)

Answer 2

It's exactly the same as 'small talk' or 'chit chat' or whatever you want to call it. Don't ask closed-ended questions. Ask 'What are you up to?' rather than 'Are you having fun?'. 'How are you feeling?' rather than 'Do you feel better?'.

And so on.

Answer 3

Sounds like you need to both act like adults and go on a real, live date.  Texting is for children.