Blocking on Social Media

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taupixie
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11 Years

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I have started blocking the Cancer man on Facebook & WhatsApp, the 2 social media platforms we are actively engaged in with each other.

*This came after almost 2 weeks of absolutely no contact, my last message wishing him the best as he goes back to where he needs to further studies. Almost 1 month after I wished him a happy birthday. He hasn't replied to any of these messages anymore.*

I'm moving on fine slowly.

I'm just curious... It doesn't really matter but I've noticed something which at first I thought was just random but now seems like a clear pattern from him. I realised ever since I blocked him, on WhatsApp, he would blocked me during the day hence I wasn't able to view his last seen status, but during bedtime he would unblocked me & I was able to see his last seen until the next morning when I wasn't able to see it again... Like I said it really doesn't matter as I don't find myself affected by this much, I think I've only done all I could there's nothing more to be done, but it's just interesting how he is doing this blocking & unblocking consistently every day? Or is it some kind of technical glitch...
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AlaniaB
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My experience of "blocking", presuming we're talking about a grown adult man with a brain is that people do it for various reasons.

1. to hide their online activity /get a bit of privacy or hide something from you.

2. To disappear like a coward from your life

3. to make a passive aggressive statement that they are angry or hurt by you.



My Cancer man is a really great kind man who is really considerate of the feelings of others but if he is hurt or upset with me, he can ignore me like I am dead. He can honestly act like he hates me if he is hurt, and it's a strange thing. He is also capable of being spiteful or hurtful or mean or saying stuff he does not mean - ALL of it is insecurity and a way of acting out over someone he cares about.



I don;t like the behavior - but have learned to roll my eyes over it instead of getting upset.

I have experienced being "blocked" for reason number 2 before (once by a Leo and once by an Aries) and both were pretty immature and had decided they didn;t want to date me anymore so handled it like that. Strangely BOTH those men who "blocked" me and ghosted my ass came back begging a few months later.

I told them to kiss my ass.

I don;t mind a bit of temper tantrum from someone who cares about me, but the idea of blocking to run away and avoid having a respectful adult conversation is such a huge turn off!
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GalOnTheCusp
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Well I may be disagreed with but as someone who has been dealing with an emotionally immature Cancer and has a good friend who is dealing with the same kind of man (although there is a 25 year age difference between the two guys) - it is kind of normal. What you are seeing is a pattern.

He may block you, but then want to see if you'd sent anything, which would be waiting for him I suppose after he unblocked you (I don't use WhatsApp so I don't know how it works).

The guy my friend deals with blocks her and unblocks her on FB regularly, hides his dating site profiles when he doesn't feel like talking to her, and then will log back on - like Tinder - and find her and 'like' her and start talking to her, over and over. And this man has her phone number! He will change his profile with songs and quotes that have meaning for both of them... and then change them within hours. He does nothing but play social media games with her. And he's in his 50's!!

The guy I know... same. Veiled messages through FB posts, snapchat stories, etc. - things that mean something to just the two of us - but very irregular personal contact. I used to find it fun, a little drama is okay, but loses it luster after nothing else really progresses. I unfriended him from everything because it's very hard to let go of someone if you can see them everyday on FB, Insta, Twitter, etc.

He waited a week and then texted me asking if I unfriended him, we talked for an hour, he drunk texted me the next night, and.... nothing after. Square one.

I miss the old days where if you stopped calling someone or they stopped calling you, you moved about your day, and got on with your life. Sure, it took time to get over people but I feel like social media makes it harder to make a clean break.



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Shaniajam
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Posted by Pearls
What exactly does a Cancer have to say/do to a Taurus to make them move on/go away/not return (this includes NOT stalking) forever and leave them alone?
Stop side stepping like a crab and just come out and say I don't want a romantic relationship. I would hurt but I sure would run for the hills not this silent treatment stay quiet until they get it crap cancers do.
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Shaniajam
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Posted by taupixie
I have started blocking the Cancer man on Facebook & WhatsApp, the 2 social media platforms we are actively engaged in with each other.

*This came after almost 2 weeks of absolutely no contact, my last message wishing him the best as he goes back to where he needs to further studies. Almost 1 month after I wished him a happy birthday. He hasn't replied to any of these messages anymore.*

I'm moving on fine slowly.

I'm just curious... It doesn't really matter but I've noticed something which at first I thought was just random but now seems like a clear pattern from him. I realised ever since I blocked him, on WhatsApp, he would blocked me during the day hence I wasn't able to view his last seen status, but during bedtime he would unblocked me & I was able to see his last seen until the next morning when I wasn't able to see it again... Like I said it really doesn't matter as I don't find myself affected by this much, I think I've only done all I could there's nothing more to be done, but it's just interesting how he is doing this blocking & unblocking consistently every day? Or is it some kind of technical glitch...
Cancer doesn't speak to me... Just utter silence after asking me how my day was going few days ago I responded and ask what he was doing that day then nothing.... Yet on my imo he checks my video chat message cause it says seen and the time it was seen. So what I do? I stopped looking so he could see I wasn't looking either... In one more week I will be blocking too. I don't get it, why can't you just say I'm done? What's so hard in that? Why leave people in limbo? Well it's happened enough to me and I'm headed in such an upward direction that they always regret it when they see me stepping up the ladder. Problem is, it's too late. Move of and don't even think about why cause if he really wanted you he would come get you is how I see it. He's not scared to lose you and not afraid someone will take you. Yeah rejection sucks... But who wants a man that doesn't see our value? Screw that. Sorry for you pain too.

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11 Years

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Posted by Shaniajam
Posted by Pearls
What exactly does a Cancer have to say/do to a Taurus to make them move on/go away/not return (this includes NOT stalking) forever and leave them alone?
Stop side stepping like a crab and just come out and say I don't want a romantic relationship. I would hurt but I sure would run for the hills not this silent treatment stay quiet until they get it crap cancers do.
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Yeahhh, I haven't found that to be true.

I can tell a Taurus straight up I don't want to talk to them and there isn't any friendship or anything else - I want nothing to do with them. Then they chase me around saying "Why!? Why!?" and like try to argue Cancers. Anything to have their way really it has nothing to do with logic or what we do or doing things "the right way". They all want it to result in the same way - having their way.