@thebear1
Is she actually a friend or someone you don't know that well who wants to be? If you have been good friends in the past then I think ghosting is pretty mean.
Me personally, this woman was not an actual life-long, long-term friend; more someone who forced/pushed herself into my life. I thought she (and her DH) were OK-ish at first, but they started to piss me off fairly quickly - and my DH too. Self absorbed, bitter, and jealous she was. Jealous of me, and jealous of several other people too. She made snide remarks about her DH's sister, and her brother's wife; their house, their car, their career.
She also ruined New years eve at the pub last year with her wall to wall whinging about her job.
Every time me and DH tried to change the subject, she changed it back. 3 hours we heard her rambling on about her job. But when WE tried to chat about anything, her eyes wandered behind us, and after 20 seconds, she talked over us with something about HER again.
Best shot of her I am.
I have half a dozen good friends; 2 I have had for 20+ years. As I said, I don't feel like this about anyone else, so I know it's her, not me. Plus, DH couldn't stand her.
@Kermitslovechild
What a dreadful story! I have a similar one actually. Like you, it was a girl I knew at school (mid 80's.) We were in the same class and that is all we had in common. When we left, she took my landline number (and a few other peoples too,) and rang me and we met for a coffee once or twice. But we had nothing in common and I didn't care to see her anymore.
But like you, she kept trying to trace me via the phonebook, old schoolmates and old neighbours, the internet, etc. She even saw me in the local paper as I was in a feature, (won't say what for!) and the bloody paper put the road I live in, in the article!!! So she traced me really quickly.
This was some 15 years ago. I dodged her when I could for 3 years and then left the home town I lived in. On FB and twitter even now I actually don't have my real surname, as I don't want her badgering me. (Also cuts down chances of stalking from others too!)
Some people just cannot take the hint! As I said I have been ghosted in the past - not sure why, maybe I was too full-on at the time, a bit moany, or they may have just thought we had little or nothing in common. But nevertheless, I took the hint pretty sharpish. I have no idea why people don't take the hint a lot quicker.
Then again, as I said about the woman I have recently ghosted, it could be that these people are so self absorbed and selfish that they can't actually see - or believe - that they are an annoying, self-absorbed twat, and that it could be possible that they are not liked by people.