Gaining energy going social activities not losing it

I am majorly on single messaging app and rarely visit others and I had this close irl friend who ghosted me for an year and came back very recently.

I was so confused why they would just leave me on read for over an year. Yes, we had our career paths shift away from eachother but still felt crazy to me. They did text me on other sites though in this one year period, where I’m inactive. I kinda felt lonely and eventually made sure I’m active on other popular apps as well so I don’t get left out. We had a little chat recently but yeah not like we used to.

(Oh I just realised I left out one very popular messaging app too. I need ro work on that and actively add people there so I’m available when they think of me. Putting them away saying “hey I dont use that app” would only discourage them from connecting me)

Since many have already answered to OP, I will ask another version of question similar to this.

What kind of ghosting is this when people only text you when you text them first? And when you don’t, the conversation never happens again?

Texts are literally made for busy people. I don’t understand how you can call later but not have time later to check their text. Calls demand you at the very moment but texts allow you to respond whenever you are free.

I feel bad for her :(

Did you do something for it happen? Because sometimes I think “Nothing changes, if nothing changes” is true and but then again I get tired of doing things, I’ll spiral back to “I’ll just stick around” mood.

Idk maybe if I just sick around a bit longer, maybe something good will happen.

I had a crush with whom I have never talked to but I still fantasize about them time to time creating scenarios in my head which will never happen. It’s not healthy I know but makes me feel good feelings.

Watching them is bad?

How do I do that on my android tv?

Yes but at that point, your body is at it’s weakest stage too.

There are billions of free users available. All they need to do is strip-off few excellent features of their free model and hide it behind a pay wall annnnd voila these free users have now became their paying customers!

The companies that enshittify their service never actually care about their premium service. They provide a service which is good enough for free users and a pro version for power users. Later once they amass a critical userbase, they slowly make their free service shitty and ask users to pay to get their good-enough service back. Free users were their focus all along and these premium users are there just to pay some of their costs.

Woah. I use voyager and never saw this feature. Thanks (°▽°)/

Haha I see. I do the same but I steal from my friend and pin them to my HeliBoard.

Reddit hivemind deep rooted into our brains

Where do you get your kaomoji?

the boundary could be imposed on you (ie: you leave the room), the boundary could be imposed on the other person (ie: you tell them how you feel and tell them the consequences

I was in the same situation as the OP and I have done both the things you have suggested and guess what they didn’t change anything. Yes the day I told them what I felt and walked out of the room, felt reliving, as I did what I wanted to do and the next few days felt different too. But things came back to being bad as they were before.

And this made me think that, I shouldn’t have been the nice/doormat guy I was from the beginning itself and be more open about my views and opinions which would make me look like a strong character. First impression is everything and you really can’t do anything after they’re set.

This is a case of corporation taking advantage of technically idiotic userbase, which is most of the general public. OpenAI using a dark pattern so that users can’t easily unchecked that box nor making that text that says “this can be indexed by search engines” brightly visible.

The amount of people around me who are actively depending on their AI chatbots, trusting them so much so that they treat it like their personal companion, enjoying AI generated content on these short-form content platforms, putting up their AI ghibili profile pics on their social media, is very concerning. It’s sad state we have reached and it will go worse from here on.