Should you text him again after three days of silence

Three days of silence isn't the same as ghosting. Ghosting is when someone cuts off all contact after weeks of real conversation. Three days is someone who got busy, forgot to reply, or is being slow to commit. The volume of matches most guys get means your message can slip past without it meaning anything about you.

If the conversation before the silence was one or two shallow exchanges, then three days does signal lower priority. He wasn't that hooked. But if you two had actual back and forth before the radio silence, a second message isn't crazy. The silence tells you he's not frantically checking his phone for you, but it doesn't tell you he never will.

Don't ask him where he went or why he didn't answer. Don't apologize for texting again. Instead, bring something new to the table. A follow-up message works best when it pivots the conversation slightly. You could ask him something specific about himself, reference something he said earlier in a way that shows you were paying attention, or suggest a specific plan if things were already heading that way.

The goal is to make replying easy and obvious for him. If your first text was 'Hey what's up', a second text being 'Hey what's up' again accomplishes nothing. If your first text was a question and he didn't answer, try a different approach that doesn't require him to come up with something from scratch.

The timing for a second message is somewhere between day four and day six after the first one. Any sooner and he hasn't had enough space to notice the gap. Any later and the conversation thread has gone cold enough that it'll feel random.

If he doesn't reply to the second message within three to four days, you're done. Two attempts is the limit. Sending a third message crosses into territory where you're doing all the work and he's giving you nothing back. That imbalance won't flip if you keep pushing. At that point, move your attention to people who are actually responding.