So what is ghosting and why does our generation love doing it so much? Ghosting someone is when you take a friend and you want to cut them out of your life; however, you do not give them a reason why you want to cut them out of your life, so you just ignore their texts or their calls and hope they get the message that you do not want them in your life anymore. So why does our generation love doing this so much instead of just talking to their friend face to face to tell them what's going on?
Well, most of our generation is so wrapped up in technology that they are somehow lacking the basic skills they need for life, such as talking to someone face to face. It's almost like they are afraid of confrontation. However, that is only part of the reason. Most of the younger generation has gotten so tied to technology that it is almost impossible for them to have an intelligent, honest conversation with someone that could be sitting right in front of them.
Now how did this happen? In our younger years, like around the time that everyone was in middle school, most of us got our first phones. Flip phones of course, because they were still somewhat of a new thing and we were still too young for a smart phone. Fast forward to high school. Now almost everyone has a smart phone and all of these new apps started to pop up that allowed us to share our lives with our friends over social media by the click of a button. Now we fast forward to where we are now in 2016. We have elementary kids that have smart phones because that is how they entertain themselves instead of going outside to play with the kids in the neighborhood.
Growing up with technology everywhere has led and allowed this generation of kids to be wrapped up in technology and making themselves look a certain way that may be different from how they actually are. The way that technology has grown has allowed kids to lose basic social skills, such as having an intelligent conversation with someone the same age as them or someone in the older generation. It has allowed us to be able to completely shut someone out of our lives without saying a word but being able to hit the block button and keep them away and make sure that they get the idea that we no longer wish to have them in our lives.
It does not have to be much at first. It can start small with an excuse not to hang out or just ignoring your text. Then soon it can become progressively worse where the person will block you from everything and not respond to anything and you don't understand what you did to make them do this to you. If only our generation would be able to have an honest conversation with someone face to face, we would not have to worry about being ghosted.
So next time that you want to wish someone out of your life, give them at least some type of explanation. Don't just ghost them.
