Ghosted by a man in his 60s

[Rocketman4980]

So even older men are doing this now?

What’s age got to do with it?

Maybe he’s died, being so elderly?
Seriously OP - people behave badly at all ages, he was probably an arse when he was 20 too.

Need to know the context

Ie you had exchanged one message with him via a dating app?

I take it thats meant as a joke?
Not very funny for MNers like myself in their 70s.

I have never been “ghosted”
but young old man or woman

Elderly?
How insulting.

Yes, I'm interested in why you think a man in his 60s is any more unlikely to ghost you than anyone else. Unless, that is, you think a man of that 'advanced' age is supposed to be grateful for female attention?

I thought that 'being so elderly' was a joke. Sixty is not at all elderly.

It’s a bloody joke!

Exactly - he would have always been like this. In the old days he probably didn’t answer the door 😂

No one is allowed to joke on MN. Ever.

It was clearly sarcasm!

Since the OP is being so stupidly ageist.

😂 LOL!!!!!!! Behave!

@Rocketman4980 OP, more context needed. How old are you? What happened???

what he should be so grateful to have you contact him that he should be waiting with 'bated breath for your missives?

So, literally ghosting.

Met him on holiday (he was working) and was with him every day for 3 weeks. Nothing happened but there was a mutual attraction and we stayed in touch and had a few sexting sessions. I was the last one to send a message, haven't heard from him in two days. But yes, maybe he has died.
That's a joke by the way.

Calm down.

Met him on holiday (he was working) and was with him every day for 3 weeks. Nothing happened but there was a mutual attraction and we stayed in touch and had a few sexting sessions. I was the last one to send a message, haven't heard from him in two days. I'm in my 50s.

Well I don't count myself as " elderly " in my early 70s.
Unfortunately a lot of people do.
There's a lot of disgraceful ageism on MN.
And tbh I don't think joking about older people dying is very funny at all.

So he's in 60s. It's unlikely that he's any better behaved now than he was then and there was no shortage of crappy behaviour back in the day.

It would be nice if men in their 50s to 70s had learned some lessons but for most of them it's
unlikely.

I’d chalk this down to a holiday romance flirtation and move on.

Doing what, exactly? Not replying to messages? Drifting away from new friendships that didn't pan out after all?

People of all ages have always done this.

Somehow this new word 'ghosting' has meant that all the different forms of falling out of touch with people are spoken of as if they were a single and distinctive new kind of social abandonment.

😂😂😂😂😂

Yeah, as a pp said, it was just a bit of a holiday romance. Probably hits on any half decent woman he sees in his path. (Sorry, no offence.)