Does tech encourage ghosting?

Why'd You Push That Button?

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Kaitlyn and I went to Texas, ate breakfast tacos, each gained five pounds of happy weight, and more or less became certified brands. We had a good time together. We also successfully pulled off our first live episode of Why’d You Push That Button. We tried to figure out why people ghost and ended up learning that humans are lazy and need a manager-type hanging over their heads to keep them accountable at all times. Still, I’d like to think this is just a rough patch in our collective dating experience, so hopefully ghosting will clear itself up after we’re all sufficiently hurt enough to want to stop the cycle. (sent via text by Ashley Carman) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.9	Have you ever ghosted someone?
0:37.4	So...
0:38.3	I'm not proud of it.
0:40.3	It's very immature of me.
0:42.3	This is a pretty typical New York ghosting story.
0:45.3	He was 10 minutes away on his way, texting me, and he ghosted the shit out of me.
0:53.3	I mean, yeah, it was fun.
0:54.8	I had a nice time, but I mean, I don't know,
0:57.1	that was really it.
0:57.9	I wasn't really looking for a relationship or anything.
1:00.5	This is really bad.
1:01.6	I've ghosted a lot of people.
1:03.6	He would like text me, and then he would just like keep texting me,
1:06.2	and then at one point I realized he was having a complete conversation with himself. We went on one date and I thought the day went really well, so then when she ghosted, I was really confused.
1:14.6	So it's like, okay, I don't really want a magician in my house.
1:17.6	Boom, ghosted.
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