Need help pivoting on communication channels

[TheWhiteTiger]

I've recently switched jobs, and there is a cute girl at my OLD job

She added me on LinkedIn, and I wanted to run some game but given it's LinkedIn, it can come a bit out of left field.
I did manage to create brief fun interactions there, and then we recently met at an event. She told me if I came there she will buy me coffee, so we went and got coffee away from the event and a short walk. I did pay for the coffee, and she said she will get the next one.

I told her we should chat a different way to schedule the next coffee, but chickened out of asking for a number and instead asked for Facebook.

Then I realized she is still working at my old company and though I don't work with these people anymore, I'd like to keep my FB, and all aspects of my personal life there separate from them. 

What would be a good way to pivot and ask for a number rather than find her on FB?

My thought was messaging her on linkedin and saying "Hey I can't find you on FB, what would be a better way to setup an AWESOME coffee hangout?"

Thoughts?

[JackZero]

Why not just ask for her number and suggest you were at a coffee shop near her job and had no way of contacting her? Then put your phone number in the message and tell her to text you back so you have hers. I would also suggest that you push the boundaries a bit in your message by offering coffee or drinks.

[TheWhiteTiger]

Jul 9, 2022 18:26:44 GMT JackZero said:

Why not just ask for her number and suggest you were at a coffee shop near her job and had no way of contacting her? Then put your phone number in the message and tell her to text you back so you have hers. I would also suggest that you push the boundaries a bit in your message by offering coffee or drinks.

idk, would this work putting the ball in her court like that with my number? 

[Wacker]

If shes interested in you then it will work. If i were you, id just text her ur number through text like he said above. And if she asks why not use facebook. Just tell her the truth. Its an understandable reason to not want you facebook/ personal life connected.

[JackZero]

Jul 9, 2022 18:53:35 GMT TheWhiteTiger said:

Jul 9, 2022 18:26:44 GMT JackZero said:

Why not just ask for her number and suggest you were at a coffee shop near her job and had no way of contacting her? Then put your phone number in the message and tell her to text you back so you have hers. I would also suggest that you push the boundaries a bit in your message by offering coffee or drinks.

idk, would this work putting the ball in her court like that with my number? 

Here's the worst that could happen:  She won't respond.

However, the problem isn't that you are putting the ball into her court.  The problem is that you aren't taking advantage of the opportunities that you have when you are right in front of her.  She wanted to take you to coffee.  She wanted to make sure that you knew that the next time it was on her.  She's throwing you all of these positive signals towards you, but you are afraid to take a risk in that moment of you not reading those signals correctly.  So now you are in a position of having to make riskier moves because you didn't make it happen when the situation was more optimal.

When you want to be good with women in general, you have to do the right things when they present themselves and not afterwards.  

[TheWhiteTiger]

Update on this, got her phone number to add on Whatsapp, so time to not fuck this up...