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What is the point of people blocking/avoiding/ignoring/being rude to people they like and care about?

Just heard someone talk about someone they consider "the one that got away," but they said they blocked them on everything and deleted all of their other contact info, but desperately hope they reach out. Respectfully, how does this make any sense? 🤣

I mean, to me, if someone blocks me on everything, I'm going to assume they don't want me contacting them, and therefore I'm not going to do it. Even if people unfriend/block on one platform, I just leave it alone and don't reach out to them. I simply have no interest in begging anyone to be a part of my life, or to have anything to do with people who don't want me in theirs.

How do you even contact someone if you're blocked on everything, anyway? 🤨 Is it expected to create a new profile/borrow a different phone or something? That is typically considered harassment, I'd think.

I guess I get it if someone blocks someone trying to get over them, but in that case, why would you want them to reach out? Wouldn't the idea be to distance yourself from them?

Is this a common thing people do? If so, why?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
It's probably not very common, among the number of people on any one site.

Since the conversations on a site like SW are between strangers and we all hide behind nick-names, we don't form real relationships as in real life.

So if someone blocks us, it may be disappointing, we even might feel insulted, but there is little point fretting about it.

Sometimes the block is baffling. You see occasional questions plaintively asking, "Why have I been blocked?" part-way through what seemed to have been a quite ordinary conversation.

Sometimes it is the last resort of a bully who has failed to make you submit and adopt his or her belief.

Occasionally, especially in the latter case, it might even be a blessed relief.



I have been blocked by a few. The daftest perhaps was someone Extremely Annoyed by my revealing a friend who had been ordained into the clergy happens to be female. Why daft? The blocker was not some miserable old male mysogynist but a woman herself!
@ArishMell I bet I know who that was. If you disagree with her on anything spiritual, you get blocked!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Unefilletrescurieuse I forget who it was. It happened a couple of years ago now anyway.