I think more times than not, when I give out my phone number for them to text me they give me their number.  I realize its tradition for a man to make the first move, but I still find it odd.

Well, it allows you to put their number in your cell directory so that when they txt or call, you'll know who it is before opening the text.

Not dumb. It's reasonable to consider the etiquette of texting.  

What?  Who cares or even remembers?  I currently have 4 SB's in the rotation and have no clue with any of them who provided the contact info first; or who texted who first.  It doesn't matter!

When I give a SB my number via the SA message board I always ask her to "please put your screen name in your first text so I know who it's from."  But still, they often don't and the first text I receive is just a "hey how are you" from an unknown number, unknown sender.  Kinda frustrating since then I have to ask who it is.  So if she provides her number I will text her first and at least I know who I'm talking to.  It's not odd, it's a good thing.

LOL, I wasn't worried.  Just an observation I was making.  I found it odd because if she gives her number first,  I am obviously going to text her.  

LOL, I think of the ones that do text me directly after me giving them my number have all put their username in the intro without me having to tell them.  I can only remember one that didn't and I only remember that one bc it went sideways for the very reason you said you ask them to put their username in the initial message. lol.

Yes it is, it was just an observation.  Its never stopped me from reaching out to them.

I’ve never really worried about it one way or the other. For me, if we go text, I want to engage right away. There’s nothing worse then she asks for your number and it goes radio silent and then magically several days later she responds. Not a deal breaker or anything, just a bit of a pain because I try to keep the inbox on SA with messages of ones that are truly in the pipeline. A lot of them do want you to make the first move and I even had one that was very explicit in that she wanted me to make the first move in all facets of the relationship (killer in bed one you made the move, just very submissive). At the macro level, haven’t really found any correlation of success in the relationship vs who makes the first move

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