Cloaking

The act of establishing communication with another person via the internet, dating, app, or other online service, and arranging a date at an agreed upon destination just to have one party not show leaving the other in confusion after they try to re-establish communication and find out the person has erased all record of conversation and online existence leaving the cloaked victim in disappointment and disgust. Ghosting with an extra step.

Example Sentence: I decided I didn’t want anything more with this person I was dating but didn’t know how to end it and felt super awkward so ended up cloaking him.

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