Further research indicated that no official investigations have been done into this at all. There have been no official studies conducted into things like how prevalent a phenomenon this is, why people do it, or how people react to it. Instead I came across blog posts and forum posts about how annoyed people get by their Facebook friends vaguebooking. This meant that I would have to do all my own research.
I decided to conduct a survey in order to answer these questions. I thought that a survey with both multiple-choice questions as well as extended answer responses would give me the best balance between quantitative and qualitative data yep, I was listening in my second year communications class. This is because quantitative data shows patterns of behaviour and allows the gathering of statistics, which for some reason everyone just believes.
It is about numbers and presenting data which can be measured. It deals with description and opinion, which is what makes it such an important aspect of my research. Not just how many people do it and how many onlookers roll their eyes. My initial draft of the survey was admittedly quite callous and blunt. Her response was to laugh and tell me how brutal I was being, which made me reconsider the tone of my questions.
In my mind, vaguebookers were still just attention seekers needing reassurance that people liked them enough to ask what was wrong. The final product read like this:. If you answered yes to question 1, what response are you hoping for when posting a vague Facebook status? Eventually I posted the survey link on Facebook, because regular Facebook users were my target audience after all. It would also not be such an overwhelming amount of data that I would find it hard to reconcile the results.
When I got my first response I was really excited. Despite my fierce belief that I already knew what the intentions of vagubookers were, I had still become very invested in finding out if I was right. However the answer to question 2 was yes so I was excited to read their answers to questions 4 and So I was a little let down by my first response. I started considering whether my survey was not worded in a way that would elicit a well thought out response, but decided that I would wait for a few more before I revisited the questions.
When I had 35 responses which admittedly took a while and much Facebook nagging I closed the survey and started collating the results. Of the 35 responders only 5 answered yes to question 1. On the other hand all 35 answered yes to question 2.
What this indicated to me was that either vaguebooking is a lot more common than my survey results were indicating, and I would need to take that into account, or that people would vaguebook without realising it.
Nevertheless I started reading through my responses and came across some very interesting answers. Most of the responses to questions 4 and 6 equated to essentially what my first responder and I believed- vaguebooking was an attention-seeking venture and it was easier to just ignore the person doing it. The most interesting responses actually ended up coming from those people who admitted to having posted a vague Facebook status.
One responder did confess to sometimes posting a vague status for attention, but clarified this by saying that they have social insecurities and anxiety and vaguebooking is a way to get reassurance that people like and care about them.
I know personally how debilitating anxiety can be so reading this response made me start to reassess my opinions about vaguebookers. As long as vaguebooking continues to be a thing, that will never happen. All Rights Reserved. Site last updated November 12, November 13, TJ DeSalvo. Why Vaguebooking Is Bad All that being said, you should never, ever vaguebook, especially if you are mentally ill. Tags: vaguebooking. Back To Top. And that's the point of vaguebooking. While the majority of us will only post on social media when we have something specific to say, vaguebookers take great delight in beating around the metaphorical bush.
Seeking attention while giving away very little in terms of detail. The easiest way to answer the question, "what is vaguebooking? So here are some examples of vaguebooking which will help you recognize it when you see it. And ultimately avoid doing it yourself. This is an expression of emotion in its most basic form.
On this occasion it's anger, but other emotions can replace anger quite easily. Instead of, "I'm so angry right now. This is a classic, and one of the most annoying forms of vaguebooking. It's about as vague as it gets while still using words. With "Why? Only me Sometimes you don't even need words. A trio of question marks is enough. This is bound to elicit some kind of response from someone, whether it be more question marks or a simple "What's up?
Social networks aren't always the nicest places to hang out. You can encounter idiots at every turn, and be exposed to every ism you care to mention. If you find the right one, a GIF can say everything you need to say.
However, vaguebookers abuse the medium by posting GIFs without context. Imagine, for example, finding a GIF of a baby cheering on your timeline.
Without context, that could mean a host of different things. So, who's doing all of this vaguebooking? Sadly, everyone seems prone to doing it from time to time. You'll find normally sane and sensible people vaguebooking in order to elicit sympathy or some kind of response from someone, somewhere. Anyone, anywhere. It doesn't really matter who responds, as long as someone notices their cries for attention.
Vaguebookers cannot be pigeonholed, as they come from all walks of life.
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