Is it normal for gen z to lack healthy communication skills? and ghostings, avoidant habits are prevalent among the youths?
I noticed this trend around my social circles, people can be friends, in a relationship for years but one find day you can find them ghosting you or blocking you.
This really gives rise to a lot of anxiety since stability and consistency is a thing of rarity.
When you try to communicate with them and understand their situation, feelings and what they are going through, they ignore your texts and avoids you.
It seems that gen z youths and young adults today aren’t capable of effective communication.
and do these people not value the relationships and friendships they have? ie, to communicate and fix rather than running away and avoiding?
I’m asking to see if other redditors also has similar experience and conclusion as me, or is this just a unique case for what i’ve seen around me.
*im a gen z and i struggle to make meaningful connections with people because of this… any tips?
Netizens’ comments
- Ok think it’s prevalent among the social media generation as a whole, not just Gen Zs. It’s just easier to block and/or archive someone than to tell them to their face that their friendship is no longer of interest.
- Nah millennials already had this problem (and it’s still ongoing). Communication often not encouraged in the home so they take what they’ve learnt into adulthood with their peers and partners. Social media makes this a lot easier because you can literally just block people despite it being a main form of communication today. It’s terrible.
- Wah thank you for this post – I feel like I’m not alone in feeling this way about my close friends anymore
- Embrace it. People like to less wayang than before.
Previous gen we teach people to care more about how other people see ourself. These days not so much.
I am not going to judge here which one is more right or wronng.