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I think I read somewhere something like “Everyone has ghosted someone, even if it was only by accident”, but do we think that’s really true? HAS everyone ghosted someone?
And if so, does that mean everyone has been ghosted by someone?
Is it something that occurs in both directions with equal frequency, or does the ratio correlate to personality traits or other features? Would it make interesting patterns if we graphed it, or just average out to a 1:1 ratio?
I wonder how you would go about graphing the emotional reactions with which people regard ghosting-events in their past, outgoing vs incoming. Like are there people who regard people they ghosted with fondness/nostalgia and people who ghosted them with the same emotion? Guilt, regret, confusion?
My hypothesis would be that nostalgia, largely positive, with a minor undertone of guilt, would probably dominate the majority of people’s emotions when considering people they had ghosted in the past, while resentment or confusion would probably dominate the majority of people’s emotions considering people who ghosted them. (Considering virtual-only, mutually romance-free relationships exclusively.) But this is just my impression based on things I've heard and read, so it’s an unscientific sample and those could also just be the ones people are likely to talk about.
Another imaginary post-it for the imaginary file of studies I’d like to read about if someone else does them.
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And if so, does that mean everyone has been ghosted by someone?
Is it something that occurs in both directions with equal frequency, or does the ratio correlate to personality traits or other features? Would it make interesting patterns if we graphed it, or just average out to a 1:1 ratio?
I wonder how you would go about graphing the emotional reactions with which people regard ghosting-events in their past, outgoing vs incoming. Like are there people who regard people they ghosted with fondness/nostalgia and people who ghosted them with the same emotion? Guilt, regret, confusion?
My hypothesis would be that nostalgia, largely positive, with a minor undertone of guilt, would probably dominate the majority of people’s emotions when considering people they had ghosted in the past, while resentment or confusion would probably dominate the majority of people’s emotions considering people who ghosted them. (Considering virtual-only, mutually romance-free relationships exclusively.) But this is just my impression based on things I've heard and read, so it’s an unscientific sample and those could also just be the ones people are likely to talk about.
Another imaginary post-it for the imaginary file of studies I’d like to read about if someone else does them.
on Tumblr
