The emotional burden of flirting on your phone: Lies, ghosts, and crumbs of attention

The emotional burden of flirting on your phone: Lies, ghosts, and crumbs of attention

Cupid is no longer called Cupid. Now it’s called Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, Badoo, Hinge...Dating appshave shaken up the way emotional and romantic connections are made around the world, as well as the dynamics that accompany these new ways of relating. Along with matches, blocks, sparks, and superlikes, new words are emerging that describe very specific behaviors: ghosting, when a flirt suddenly and forever disappears; breadcrumbing, when someone shows intermittent signs of interest but without commitment or emotional responsibility; orzombieing, when the ghost re-establishes contact as if nothing had happened. Although these are not phenomena exclusive to the virtual world, they do seem to occur there more frequently, according to the experts consulted.

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