I feel like we’re both using our personal situations that were vastly different as examples which in turn is making us disagree, and I compiled different experiences in a single comment to make it shorter which ignores the circumstances of when people ghost/get ghosted.

With people online I block, which i figured is just another way of ghosting hence the can’t access or reach you. Reading more comments it’s seems that they’re different things? English isn’t my first language so sorry for that. But anyways, I don’t need to think about how me blocking them will matter when i see them IRL, so I skip the ghosting and just straight up block if I feel they aren’t respecting my boundaries. They have no way to access me afterwards.

I do the ghosting to people IRL only after rejecting / asking for space / trying to let the relationship sizzle out. If none if those work, then i resort to ghosting. People, especially men, who you know irl and can’t just block and get it over with will take the rejection as a challenge or chance to argue back and piss the hell out of you. In my experience they think they can change your mind, the reasons you’ve given are all silly little misunderstandings, or just flat out tell you what you feel is wrong. I don’t feel bad about ghosting these people. It’s not as awkward when you meet irl either cause you can be like yeah I don’t use my phone sorry bye and it’ll be done with.

I guess it all comes down to personal experience in the end.