Is This Ghosting??

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-09-2005
Is This Ghosting??
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Thu, 07-07-2005 - 3:34pm

I'm on Yahoo Personals (geez, they gave me another 2 months free) and I send Ice Breakers and/or emails to someone I'm interested in. Several times, I have had a few e-mails of conversation and then nothing. No biggie and I move on.

Scenario 1
Well this week, I received an email from a guy who I wrote too back in April. Basically he now is responding to me and of course, his reasoning for responding now was that he doesn't check the Personals mailbox often. Cool.

Secenario 2
On the otherhand, there is a guy I was conversing with (via email for one day) and we stopped emailing and then today I ran by his picture (he updated them) and I sent an email stating "nice pics - how are u doing" message.

Scenario 3
I have also dated 2 people at the same time; and during the course of dating have decided to put my energy into 1 person and tell the other person that either I met someone and/or not sure I'm interested in continuing seeing them. If Guy 1 for whatever reason doesn't work out; then I may contact Guy 2 to see if we can rekindle?

Any of these scenarios fit into the "ghosting" category?

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-27-2003
Thu, 07-07-2005 - 3:59pm

Ghosting is when someone disappears without any explanation, you don't get a 'see ya', 'thanks, but no thanks', you get nothing. Poof they are gone.

If you plan on telling Guy #2 that you have met someone else that's not ghosting. That's just being polite.

Libra