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While not new information, ghosting has been around for decades, in our current always socially connected life you can ghost a person, but often they can still see you've been on FB or Twitter or other social media. So the ghost doesn't disappear like 15 yrs ago when someone left your life, they left. You couldn't keep track of them online or anything.
Okay-- but it's not "new" or rare behavior. The article suggests that the behavior is facilitated by an increasingly impersonal society, which may be true, but I've observed "ghosting" long before the World Wide Web and affordable mobile phones.
I'm not happy when it does take place, but I anticipate people to act that way. I don't like thunderstorms, but I've seen enough in my life to expect to see them again.
This. It's nothing new. But it's the first time that it's been given a catchy term.
Anytime a new catchphrase comes along it is as if it defines an entire new aspect of human behavior; as if something new has just been unearthed. I blame social media for such. Do millennials think so highly of themselves?
The term "I'm ghost" use to mean "I'm outta here" a mere generation ago.
Anytime a new catchphrase comes along it is as if it defines an entire new aspect of human behavior; as if something new has just been unearthed. I blame social media for such. Do millennials think so highly of themselves?
The term "I'm ghost" use to mean "I'm outta here" a mere generation ago.
...but it is different now. We've moved into the digital age. A generation ago we were still in the industrial age, albeit the tail end of the industrial age.
There is a huge divide between the baby boomers and Gen-X caused by the digital revolution. We have not seen a comparable paradigm shift since the 1700s when the industrial revolution began replacing the agrarian way of life.
It shows that the ghoster is an immature pr!ck who can't handle ending relationships in a mature manner. If you're still doing it after high school, you are the one with the problem.
I agree with you strongly that it is very hurtful and that no decent person should engage in it, and that it is usually carried out by emotionally disabled or emotional shallow people.
This does not apply to cutting off people who have physically hurt you, for example.
No not everyone is that immature or irresponsible to not contact someone even if it is to tell them they want to break up or give some sort of excuse as to why there has not been or is not going to be contact in the future.
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