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To find cryptic FB status updates highly irritating?

65 replies

MrsWobbleTheWaitress · 04/03/2010 19:03

What's the point? Either write a proper status, or keep schtum. What are you hoping for writing something cryptic?

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NormalityBites · 04/03/2010 19:05

YANBU

It's called 'vaguebooking' and is highly irritating (so much so that someone named it )

giraffesCantCeilidhDance · 04/03/2010 19:07

things like "some poeple need to get a life" oh so annoying.

SpicedGerkin · 04/03/2010 19:07

YANBU - It's to get attention, encourages lots of 'aww what's up hun' and similar!

thisisyesterday · 04/03/2010 19:07

they are hoping for lots of attention!

ToccataAndFudge · 04/03/2010 19:07

maybe it's only cryptic for those people who don't know what it's about/what came before?

for instance if I write tomorrow

"yes - it's definitely happening tomorrow"

then a large number of FB friends will know what I'm talking about..........those that don't..............well they should read some of my previous status updates and it would all be very clear

ToccataAndFudge · 04/03/2010 19:08

giraffe - there was one of those message by one of my RL friends yesterday actually.........

I knew exactly what she meant as it was apparent from mutual friends posts over the last week or so hehe

PamelaTroglodytes · 04/03/2010 19:08

YANBU

I hide people that do this. Love the term vaguebooking

NormalityBites · 04/03/2010 19:09

vaguebooking

ToccataAndFudge · 04/03/2010 19:10

besides - you're only allowed something like 420 characters in a status update, often what you want to say just won't fit..........so you have to do cryptic and expand after

Intergalactic · 04/03/2010 19:15

YA absolutely NBU, I can't stand when people do this. Mostly because it is people who I'm either not interested enough in to ask, but irritated that I don't know (and also don't want to endorse their attention-seeking behaviour by asking) or it's people who I don't actually like anyway so would never ask, but just want to be nosey about. V annoying.

ASecretLemonadeDrinker · 04/03/2010 19:15

YANBU. THen you go and be nosey and see someone ask then the person say "I have messaged you". FFS. [bovvered]

ASecretLemonadeDrinker · 04/03/2010 19:15

YANBU. THen you go and be nosey and see someone ask then the person say "I have messaged you". FFS. [bovvered]

giraffesCantCeilidhDance · 04/03/2010 19:16

its when 20 people then say "oh no hun whats up? xxxx " and the OP goes "oh nothing never mind"

WTF?!

ToccataAndFudge · 04/03/2010 19:17

INter - what on earth have you got people you don't like on your FB friends for

ToccataAndFudge · 04/03/2010 19:19
giraffesCantCeilidhDance · 04/03/2010 19:19

TAF my fb status is very vague just now...its a guessing game

ToccataAndFudge · 04/03/2010 19:23

look at this response I've just seen on FB to a vague one

"aww hun whats up? ru ok? not sure whats up hunni ur status is a bit vague hunni. xxxxxxxx hugglez mwah mwah mwah xxxxxx"

I guess that the sort of friends vaguebookers have on FB

ManyTimesAnHour · 04/03/2010 19:25

I FUCKING HATE 'hunni'. Or any variation therewith. Makes my toes curl.

PortBlacksand · 04/03/2010 19:30

If we all wrote a delightfully vague vaguebook - we'd all spot each other surely?

PortBlacksand · 04/03/2010 19:31

Or not....

Flightattendant · 04/03/2010 19:32

I just write what I am thinking and tbh sometimes it is really vague.

I hate having to answer all the questions! I just like having a box to put that thought into and forget about it.

ASecretLemonadeDrinker · 04/03/2010 19:32

everyone write "you know who you are and you know what I'm talking about" so we can MN spot .....[?].....

ASecretLemonadeDrinker · 04/03/2010 19:33

Or, "if you know what I'm on about I know who you are"...... eh?.....eh?!

PortBlacksand · 04/03/2010 19:34

I'd be up for it......but i don't think any of my 'friends' are MNers.

PortBlacksand · 04/03/2010 19:35

"I have a bat and i know how to use her...."