GHOSTING has become a very big trend nowadays and it’s more common with high school students.

“It’s a verb that describes when one person ceases all communication with someone who they are dating and no longer wish to be dating.” Many students at Granger High School don’t even know they are ghosting someone, as far as they are concerned they just think they “dropped” or even “broken-up” with their significant other.

However, ghosting is a legitimate trend that millennials do to each other. It is very popular, and about 11 percent of people have had someone ghost them in the past. There are many students at Granger High School who have blocked or unfriended someone after talking to them because they simply “weren’t interested anymore.” The idea is to move on faster without having to deal with the aftermath of a break up.

Ghosting is also known as “fadeaway.” Ghosting has always existed but now we actually have a word for it.

I get it being ghosted is no fun and it really sucks not being able to find out why things ended. Sometimes it can be for the best when the other partner just up and leaves, because it can make it easier on you. Yet, it still sucks and ghosting someone is not cool.

Maybe the guys that ghost do it because they are thinking it’s a harmless joke, but the girl does not think of it that way. However, a girl can do it to a guy just or vice versa. Either way it doesn’t feel so nice and leaves you without closure. You can really hurt someone’s feeling by ghosting them. I do not think ghosting is OK, like just grow up and face that person. This especially goes for high school students who think it is easier to just get it over with and “be cool.”

The fact that Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and ghosting is spreading, try not to ghost someone right before Valentine’s Day or even after for that matter. I didn’t want to say it but DO-NOT-BE-THAT-GUY. With that said, I think this new trendy word will be used more throughout Granger High Schools’ halls after reading this article.

The moral of the story: do not ghost someone. If you want it to be over, make it known and let it be. Give that person the closure they deserve. Also, let’s try not to make ghosting a trend. It’s not cool and it should not happen.

So, I’m going to make like a ghost and leave this article here and see you beautiful students later.