Why would he search for me on social media?

Basically nearly everything we do on the internet is tracked and stored. That’s why you get ads on insta/Facebook connected to things you’ve googled recently.

With this it is probably just that your number is in his phone and his in yours. No mystery here. You will people you might know recommendations on insta and Facebook if their number is in your phone.

You can change a setting on the privacy settings on Facebook so people can’t search for you via your mobile number.

You said you haven’t searched for his social media presence …. but you have? On LinkedIn, quora etc. That will also leave a trail

First of all, as Ss said, yes you have searched his online presence!! Even down to Pinterest, I mean come on! And quite frankly there is nothing wrong with that. Any I guy I started dating, before we ever agreed to be exclusive or BF/GF I would google them and check out their FB page if they had one or their Linked in page.

There were several guys by looking at their social media I learned things about them which made me not want to continue with them. For example, one guy told me he went through a nasty divorce and his ex took his son and moved away and made himself out to be the victim because he barely gets to see his son. Come to find out he was charged with domestic battery, had a restraining order against him and could only have supervised visits with his son! He wasn’t about to tell me that on the first several dates!

Another guy was totally still hung up on his ex, had their pictures still all over his page, was posting relationship memes about how much he was missing her, would do anything to get her back, etc and so forth. But on our dates he was telling me how glad he was they broke up because in hindsight he realized they weren’t a good match, etc and so forth.

Yet another I told my ex husband was an alcoholic and I didn’t want to get involved with another guy who had a drinking problem and lo and behold I Google him and find out he’s got 2 RECENT DUIs. When I asked him about it he said he was going through a really bad time with his divorce and made some mistakes. And a couple months later showed me he was a bigger drunk than my ex! Should have gone with my first instinct on that one.

I could do tons more examples but I think you get my point. There is nothing wrong with making sure you don’t get involved with the wrong guy whether it’s a casual relationship or not. So why wouldn’t a guy think the same thing? You could be a psycho or keyed her ex boyfriends car or something. And that’s just something he could probably find out on social media.