so i wish this title was original, but unfortunately it is not. a local morning radio guy was talking about "vague-booking" the other day and i couldn't stop laughing. so what is vague-booking? well, it when you post something very vague on your facebook status in order to draw attention to a situation or yourself that you couldn't just come right out and speak to.
Example: "whew...crisis averted", "horrible day", "heart broken", "unspoken request", "so angry", "unbelievably frustrated", "super, wonderful, lovely, stupendous day with someone special" etc...
Or it is a technique used to vent without really outing your source of frustration.
Example: "wish people wouldn't treat me that way", "if only things were different", ( a common southern tactic; God love her or bless her heart) etc..etc..
oh, i am sure at some point we are all guilty as charged, but it's very sad to me that we are culture whom is losing the ability to communicate verbally within the sweet confines of real relationships and community, but rather reverting to social media outlets to express our needs, frustrations, emotions, with vague-booking.
your 562 so called "friends" are mostly just facebook stalkers wondering who the heck "broke your heart" and they are eagerly anticipating a relational status update. they might comment with things like, "i am so sorry" "what happened dear?" "anything i can do?" but really 99% of the time they are just looking for the "dirt" as my mom would call it. am i right, or am i right, right? i mean seriously people... we were not created for this garbage.. we were created for intimate, raw, real experiences, where maybe not 562 people care.. but one, genuine, real life, friend DOES care and DOES want to help carry the burdens and dance the dance of celebration with you. NOT via the internet, iphone, text message, google-bloogle, etc.. but real.life.
so here is to relational status updates via romantic touches, a big bear hug, a bouquet of flowers, long talks at the coffee shop, dinners on the plaza, cookie decorating play-dates, chinese with the fam on saturday afternoons, monday night football at the bar, tears shed over a hand written card, and yes, skype dates ;)!
happy monday,
~s
i think some of those ppl are actually DYING to out their source of frustration or DO actually want to just come out and say it, but they figure they'll get more attention if they bring people in and make them extra curious first. They are just BEGGING for people to say "what happened??" so that they can say "well, SINCE you asked...." ha.
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