Ghosting Caking and Breadcrumbing
The evolving lexicon of online dating
Word of Mouth · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Michael Rosen talks to cyber-pyschologist Dr Nicola Fox Hamilton about the new language that has emerged now that so many relationships begin online. She has studied the way people use words and expressions to describe themselves in their dating profiles as well as their experiences of internet romance. She reveals how many of the creative new terms to describe relationships forged this way spring from African American speech and language. If you want to avoid being ghosted, catfished or bread-crumbed then this is for you.
Producer for BBC Audio Wales and West of England: Maggie Ayre