There needs to be a texting disclaimer

I find it particularly interesting that in face to face conversation, virtually no one with a semblance of emotional intelligence can possibly bear the agonizing awkwardness and shame that comes with the act of blatantly ignoring someone who is directly talking to us, yet we find it acceptable and commonplace to both intentionally ghost and inadvertently ghost—whether due to a technical error, messages getting buried when we’re busy, or simply forgetting to respond to messages. There’s something inherently unnatural, something poignantly dehumanizing about ghosting; this act of temporarily shutting out communication is virtually never a part of our real-life social interactions, yet it has become the norm of our interactions online and through our phones.

This elicits the underlying problem of texting; it is an act so farfetched and disassociated from the nuances and minutiae that constitute the complex dance that we innately know as human communication.