Comments on: Ghosting – Why Do People Do It? /news/ghosting-why-do-people-do-it/218411 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Luke /news/ghosting-why-do-people-do-it/218411#comment-653030 Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:28:45 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=218411#comment-653030 ghosting is the choice of no longer investing time into getting to know someone or whatever relationship you’ve formed with them. take grindr as the most obvious platform you’re likely to be ghosted on. it’s to hook up. quickly and efficiently (allegedly). once you’ve determined you’re no longer interested in the person, who is the judge of when you should be giving an explanation? guess you’ve gotta go with what’s reasonable; would it be reasonable to behave that way and how would you like to be treated. if you’d be ok being ghosted, you’re probably going to ghost others. that or do as i do and always treat others as best to can using a template to copy, paste, reply with. actually works really well and 99% of the time people appreciate knowing where they stand. plus, you never know where you could bump into them. that said, i can empathise with not even doing that of your encounters are very brief and the relationship built minimal.

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