The dating trend ‘orbiting’ is way, way worse than ‘ghosting’ someone

It's called 'orbiting', and it's basically next level stuff from our old friend, 'ghosting'. Ghosting is what cowards do, it's basically when someone you’ve been seeing suddenly cuts off all contact, and seem to vanish, with no explanation whatsoever. No WhatsApps. No calls. Nothing. But in 'orbiting', a phrase coined by writer Anna Iovine earlier this year, your former romantic interest probably isn’t commenting on your photos or routinely sliding into your DMs. But they like your Instagram pictures, like your tweets, and watch your Snapchat stories (if you're one of the seemingly demising crowd who still use it) and generally interact with you online without messaging you. It's done so the person doing the orbiting can keep them close enough to see each other, but far enough away that they never have to talk.