You can either confirm someone, deny them, or disconfirm them. According to communication theorist and psychologist those are the three options. Disconfirming is the most dehumanizing.

Social media is filled with disconfirming- aka ghosting. Comment on a post and no response or like. Post something yourself....to crickets.

I get it's unrealistic to expect people to acknowledge everything, but we've never before communicated into the void as we do now. I think this is a big part of why social media can feel so shitty and dehumanizing.

#nostr #socialmedia #communication #ghosting