Ghosting is second place, although it's horrible at least your are not being tortured. Just my thoughts.
Over the years I've gotten a lot better at avoiding the friend zone. If I like a girl I make my intentions clear early. She either responds or she doesn't. However if I feel she is friend zoning me I learned to just outright ignore her. I don't get friend zoned anymore, but instead I get ghosted when things don't work out. It still sucks but it's a lesser of two evils in my opinion.
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