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Why r people overusing "ghosting"

it cannot be applied to literally any situation, it is only when we are in a relationship or it is assumed so, and a person dissapears

another thing it doesnt have to mean i dont like you, its just i cant pursue everything right
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WestonTexan · 18-21, M
I think it could have a slightly broader usage, such as in friendships, but like, taking a while to respond isn't "ghosting". It has to be an actual cold turkey disappearance.

It's like gaslighting. Gaslighting is form of psychological manipulation. It isn't just having a different perspective on something, but that's how I see it used. "You don't agree with me on this, therefore you're gaslighting me".
Cassieeeee · 31-35, F
My appetite ghosted me today, couldn't even eat a salad.. 🥹
jk, I understand what you mean.
Zeuro · 26-30, F
You don’t need to be in a relationship. If you’ve been talking to someone for a month and have gone on a couple dates, and then just block the person out of the blue without an explanation, that is indeed ghosting. Even if someone’s just a casual repeat hookup, dropping off the face of the earth without a word is just rude
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@Zeuro
no they don’t. If it is not explicitly or even implicitly established that you are in a committed relationship, then you just aren’t.

Now you are shifting your argument.

What I said stands: if people are interacting at the levels you described, they are clearly in a relationship. Not a committed relationship, perhaps--and you even raising "implicitly" is a whole can of its own worms, as one party can often feel as though there was an implicit commitment...--but a relationship nonetheless.



And frankly, anyone who considers any level of explanation whatsoever too much “effort,” is completely selfish and lazy as fucking Hell.

lol

Perhaps the person exiting doesn't like confrontation--e.g., the way you are really digging in!--and just doesn't want to be savaged, potentially, by someone whom he or she has decided they don't want or need in their own life, for their own reasons.

The interaction started because they allowed it; now they are disallowing it. Since you don't recognize uncommitted relationships as examples of relationships, I hope "interaction" is acceptable, since you have a very narrow definition of relationship.

So what do you call those levels of interaction? And why do you think you are owed ANYthing by a person who is not in that tiny set of "[committed] relationship"?
pdockal · 56-60, M
@Zeuro

I see from a didn't reply that you don't understand what a relationship is

@SomeMichGuy

She doesn't have an understanding of relationship and probably English in general
exchrist · 31-35
Any interaction. If i stop interacting. I ghosted you?
Maybe i just get distracted easily? My sister went to work without saying bye did she go ST. me? when she stepped into the crosswalk?
Zeuro · 26-30, F
@exchrist literally no one said that
exchrist · 31-35
@Zeuro its a question? If it could be applied to any situation. Then when my sister went to work without saying farewell to me; she ghosted me. If shed not wanted to respond when i said have a good day at work while she walked toward the door, is it that she ghosted me, didnt have time to respond, or simply didnt want to; she has a cell phone she could have responded, she didnt!. she never came home; that night. Or maybe she had a date never told snyone and forgot her phone?
My grandfather died and still haunts the basement. Did he ghost us? I cannot see him but i heard the echo of his voice sometimes and footsteps near where he spent his time reading.
Have i been ghosted? He never responds.
Magenta · F
There's a ton of phrases and trends that are mega overused on social media, e.g., narcissists, toxic, self love/love yourself, gaslighting, blah..
pdockal · 56-60, M
Define relationship ....
I have relationship with people i encounter on a regular basis so when they dissappear it could be ghosting
Zeuro · 26-30, F
@pdockal there’s a difference between having a relationship and being in a relationship.
You have a relationship with your uncle Jude. You’re not in a relationship with your uncle Jude.
pdockal · 56-60, M
@Zeuro

Not exactly

Being in a relationship typically means having a connection, either romantic, familial, or platonic, with another person.

I certainly am not in a relationship with him. I don't know him. I am in a relationship with most of my family.
YoMomma · 41-45
You don't have to be in a relationship to be ghosted
Donotfolowme · 51-55, F
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
It literally can be used in any situation; it's not only for formalized relationships.
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
@NinaCherry Perhaps that is true, but... BUT... you shouldn't just fade into the fog on cat's paws. Have the courage to announce, "it's over." Some of us are delicate.
Zeuro · 26-30, F
@MarkPaul an opinion of yours I can get behind.
MarkPaul · 26-30, M
@Zeuro Finally.
MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
ghosting has nothing to do with romance though, if you're just talking and the other person vanishes that's ghosting
Locke ·
Toxic is also overused way too much.
in10RjFox · M
You need to file the complaint to LIFE that makes them ghost. It's not they who ghost.
exchrist · 31-35
Whered you go? I went gosting.
exchrist · 31-35
Please be more specific.

 
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