What do you say to keep a conversation going?

When it comes to keeping conversations going, you want to avoid the small talk and just get into the meat of the conversation. It could be a story, a question, or a joke, but skip the unimportant stuff. So let's say you’re gonna text someone, you might start the text with, “Wow, you won’t believe what my coworker just did”, or, “Have you seen this new Netflix documentary? I'm watching it right now, it's so crazy,” and then just let the conversation naturally evolve. When you start conversations in a more natural way, it's more entertaining and it looks less desperate than just saying, “Hey, what's up?”