Urban Dictionary defines the vaguebooking as follows:

 Intentional or unintentional vague or ambiguous facebook status message, which people have no clue as to what the heck you are talking about. Also included is posting fragmented song lyrics without stating the artist.

Also . . . .

An intentionally vague Facebook status update, that prompts friends to ask what's going on, or is possibly a cry for help.

Does this sound familiar to you at all?

This is not a new phenomenon – lest we forget about the trials and tribulations if AOL and instant messaging we all experienced during middle school. I am just so happy that this act has a term associated with it now.

Now, I will put it out there that I am totally guilty for engaging in random acts of vaguebooking from time to time. I try to avoid it but sometimes it is so delicious and cathartic. I love the thrill of picking out what emo-tastic quote or dramatic song lyric I am going to use as my status. The anticipation of leaving the status up there hoping that the person to whom I directed the status toward will read it and wonder to themselves; “are they talking about me?”

It is so passive-aggressive at times and self-serving but I love it none the less. My favorite examples of vaguebooking for myself are as follows

(1)  The dramatic-but-super-empowering-Broadway-ballad-sung-by-a-diva – perfect example of this is “Defying Gravity” from the musical Wicked.

(2)   The dire and vague status that denotes that the world is going to end – this one is a little more over-the-top (more so than Broadway, I shudder to think). Often it involves leaving messages like:

Waiting for the black hole in my soul to melt away

Why does everything feel like it’s falling apart?

 Although I generally find vaguebooking annoying, I support people’s right to do it. However the one example of vaguebooking I would like to ban is the direct-passive-aggressive-attack. They usually look something like this;

 “I JUST WANT TO SAY GO TO HELL! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE YOU PIECE OF CRAP, I CAN’T BELIEVE I DATED YOU FOR SO LONG. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DID. I HOPE YOU DIE!!!”

This prompts a steady stream of replies; everything from “OMG what happened” and “I love and support you” to “God get over it” and “this is really immature”.  I’m sorry but do not use your facebook status as a rallying flag to garner support for your rants and tirades – nobody cares, even if they say they do. More than anything, facebook has evolved to become everyone’s new therapist. Facebook is an outlet whereby people can share their feelings, successes, failures, dreams, and goals and receive commentary and feedback about such things. Facebook has proven more than anything that the human species as whole has way too many feelings and way too heavy of a desire to express said feelings

…… the drag queen says as she busily writes on her feelings about vaguebooking ;)