Ghosting A Person is a Great way To Get Haunted
Since I am of a certain age, I recall when the phone was not near you 24/7 listening to your every word as a digital wiretap. Back in those days, you had a leash attached to the phone which was attached to the wall which enabled you to do things like 'the angry hangup' where you would slam the receiver down in a fit of 'fuck generally whoever is on the other end of this line' glory! Yeah, by gosh, by golly, that other person KNEW you had just power-hungup on em!
Now, however, you only get like a slide button or some interface and you are just as likely to break your phone if you try to power hangup. This is perhaps the symbol that best fits the new passive generation of always-on, always-connected little bitches I call the 'ghost communicators.'
Ghost communicators have no excuse. They always have a phone and they literally have the damn Library of Alexandria always available via the internet at any given moment. They don't have to say, sit in the kitchen and hope a certain call comes in during a certain time to avoid long distance charges. No, these little shits have zero excuse. They literally see the message and then ignore the damn thing like they didn't see it. You might have someone in the 'old time' who ignored the phone ringing, or turned the ringer off, but then, they usually weren't totally sure who was calling. They MIGHT miss something. This new generation has all that, and then they simply choose to go along in reality like nothing whatsoever was said.
Some of the old generation does this as well. If you miss a call, you can also potentially get a text, and failing all of THAT there is this thing called email or encrypted chat programs aplenty. The old generation who knows of the beforetimes tries to act like they don't get technology, which they don't, but they sure seem to get it when it has to do with their retirement or social security. If it means they might have to get off their Baby-Booming asses and go be a Walmart greeter, they rival Bill Gates in technological understanding which naturally extends to the early 70's! Otherwise, they just don't get it.
So, I've decided for everyone who ghosts people when they are contacted that you shall be visited by three communication spirits. One from the past, the present, and the one where you wake up in a burning coffin with a cell phone that you can use to call for help, but everyone will ignore you when you message them. Then, you will probably, in all likelihood, become an actual ghost, and will understand why ghosts haunt you and generally why ghosts are doing unpleasant things like writing in blood on your walls.