You're staring at your phone screen. It's been hours, maybe days. The last message you sent sits unopened. There's no reply, no read receipt, just … silence. This is the experience of digital ghosting ...

Charlie Heriot-Maitland told Newsweek that replying may trigger anxiety, conflict or shame—so silence offers a way out.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. A Monster poll found that 77% of workers report feeling ...

Any new technology created for the purpose of human connection also creates an opportunity for novel forms of missed connection: the envelope returned to sender, the unanswered phone call, the forlorn ...

There are two kinds of ghosting. Both involve disappearing after making contact, but only one comes with treats. Ghosting at Halloween means you ring the doorbell, leave a bag of treats, and then run ...

Photo-illustration by Jonelle Afurong / The Atlantic. Source: Harold M. Lambert. But perhaps ghosting—or being ghosted—doesn’t need to be so upsetting. I recall a text I received at the end of the ...