People in Stitches After Woman Discovers Truth About Guy Who 'Ghosted' Her

A woman who suspected a guy she connected with at a party of ghosting her was left red-faced after discovering the truth.

Ghosting, the practice of ceasing all communication with a friend, family member or romantic partner, isn't necessarily a modern phenomenon but, in an age when most are contactable across a variety of digital platforms and other media, it's certainly prevalent in the world of modern dating today.

According to research published in the Journal of Indexing and Metrics back in 2019, people admitted to ghosting 29 percent of the people they dated, having been ghosted by 25 percent of dates themselves.

More significantly still, 74 percent of those surveyed as part of the study claimed ghosting was an appropriate way to end a relationship. However, even in the modern age of mass communication, crossed wires can occur.

In a post upvoted over 28,000 times on the forum "Today I F**ked Up," a Reddit user writing under the name of scifisquirrel shared details of her own experience that could serve as a warning to some singletons out there.

It all started two weeks ago when she attended a party with some friends and met a guy she immediately found herself drawn to. "As the night wore on, I found myself talking to various different groups, but each time this guy would appear again and we'd end up just talking to each other again," she wrote.

"Someone who neither of us knew came up and said we made an attractive couple, and I realized somehow in the span of two hours we were already acting like a couple," she continued

Come to the end of the night, she said they ended up kissing in an Uber together. As the cab dropped her off, she gave him her number, excited at the prospect of seeing him again.

Having got home late on Sunday, she said she didn't necessarily expect to immediately hear from him. Monday and Tuesday followed with more "silence." By Wednesday, however, she was feeling a "mixture of angry and over it and insecure all the same time."

"How dare he lead me on like this!" she said she thought to herself at the time. "Well, I guess I'm glad I only wasted one night on this a**hole."

At this point, she said she decided to do a little detective work herself and Google him. Sure enough, he was "easy to find." However, she said she made the mistake of clicking on his LinkedIn page.

Because she viewed the page she said he would therefore know she had been scoping him out on the business networking site in a development that she said made her "feel even worse." However, she got another surprise when, within 30 minutes, he added her as a connection on LinkedIn, something at odds with the idea he was ghosting her.

The poster said they began chatting. Then she discovered the truth. "I had ghosted him," he said. "When I gave him my number, turns out I was off by a digit. Turns out, tipsy me isn't so great at typing or proofreading."

Now in the process of organizing their first date, she said she realized if she hadn't been a "creepy LinkedIn stalker" they might never have reconnected and instead gone on assuming they had ghosted each other.

Her story drew a variety of amused responses on social media. Matsu727 wrote: "Can't believe sliding into someone's linkedin DMs actually worked" with NSA_Chatbot quipping: "This might be the first time head hunting has actually worked."

TeslaGuyKC loved her "wholesome" story, noting he met his wife of 15 years in similar circumstances. "We talked all night and I didn't ask for her number because I thought she was out of my league, but she called me a few days later after getting my number from a friend of a friend," he said.

In fact, it turned out lots of users had similar experiences.

Another user, Pincus2, provided a similar story about his sibling. "My brother Facebook stalked his dental hygienist and sent her a message but didn't get anything back. A month later his dental hygienist Facebook stalks him and when she goes to message him finds a message already there," they said. "They have a 2 year old now."

Newsweek reached out to scifisquirrel for comment.