What Ghosting Says About Society (And Why it Hurts So Much)::Social disappearing acts reflect the deepening inhumanity of a technology-addled, coldly transactional world.
Why put this on c/technology? IMO it does not fit here.
What Ghosting Says About Society (And Why it Hurts So Much)
Submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/what-ghosting-says-about-society-and-why-it-hurts-so-much/
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PlexSheep@feddit.de 8 months ago
abort_christian_babies@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 8 months ago
As opposed to 30 years ago when you could just walk out and never interact with a person again? “They never called me back” is an absolutely ancient trope in dating.
excel@lemmy.megumin.org 8 months ago
If you get ghosted, it only proves that that person is emotionally immature and wasn’t ready for a relationship anyway, so they did you a favor by outing themself.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Meh, can also easily reflect on the person being ghosted. Why would I continue to engage with someone who’s insulting, rude, etc? I recently stopped engaging with a friend of 20+ years when they expressed a perspective that I (and most people) would consider morally reprehensible, hypocritical, and completely antithetical enlightenment ideals. You’d say I was being immature, while I’d consider my former friend’s attitude juvenile and offensive.
I’ve had friends/acquaintances where we just stopped talking to each other. So, who ghosted who? I’d even argue this kind of distancing is organic.
Also, if you’re consistently being ghosted, maybe it’s you.
average650@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s very true. But, it’s something that appears to be way more common that it uses to be.