Disappearing from someone's life without a word — ghosting — as the defining act of app dating, named in 2011 and universal by 2015, when it was applied to jobs, friends and, by employers, to candidates. The record's entry for the silence as a verb, and the ghost who is still online.
Correction to the headnote: Ghosting was not coined, it was noticed. Someone said it, someone else screenshotted it, and the screenshot is the coinage.
Filed as evidence: a job listing that asked candidates to demonstrate "Ghosting energy". Screenshot attached. The listing has since been edited.
The record notes ghosting was a dating term, then a hiring term, then a friendship term, and that it has now been done to the record by a dentist.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
