Ghosting is just the term "de jour"...of what was once not calling someone back, repeatedly. Or not writing back if you want to go back far enough. There is nothing new, life is just the repeated hologram of what once was. Fuck'em, ain't gonna make time...then ya don't get my time. Be weird...it rocks!

Being ghosted really is soul crushing.

Other than being involved in slow fade outs where both parties just stop reaching out to each other, I've only been truly ghosted once, by someone I happened to really like and think very highly of, which is rare for me.

Since that happened, it's put me off dating (and I could see how it would put you off social media as well - nothing worse than the urge to creep the one who ghosted you). Now I figure, what's the point? If you can put in all that time and effort, only to be thrown away as if you're nothing, why keep trying? Makes you feel pretty defeated.

If you are boomer you have no business dating a millennial, or at the very least you only want them for one week anyway so who cares about the week after?

I think when they say boomer they mean gen x'r. As one...dating a millennial would be dating on the "curve" but hey why not right?

I'm old enough to have to look up what "ghosting" is and the other person was right in saying that the practice is as old as time. But sometimes I've had to ghost somebody for my own safety. What somebody mistook for "enthusiasm" was just me being polite and agreeable. And when I broke things off politely, sometimes the other party would get argumentative and insist that I was obligated to see them again. So yes, I did "ghost" somebody - for my own safety. And I've been ghosted, too - it sucks, but people are free to do whatever they want and I'd rather spend time with somebody who wants to spend time with me. At least I don't argue and whine when it happens to me. I can understand why ghosting is a practice with people who've had to deal with crazy stalkers (of all genders!) in their past.

I went out on dates and found not only did you not listen to me, talk non stop, you repeatedly crossed my physical mental and emotional boundaries, never mind the projecting expectation of what this meeting meant. So the only honest and self respecting authentic thing to do is no contact. It is not my job to educate you on how to treat others.