You have social sites such as Facebook and Twitter where statuses are updated constantly because you just have to tell the world that the muffins you baked this morning were dee-lish! But when you update your status 6 times before 8 a.m., you may have a problem with Over Sharing. I decided to capitalize it because I believe it's a disease. Not really but it is annoying. Now don't get me wrong I love to share everything from my opinion to what's going on in my love life. I feel as though a way to connect with people is to share something personal. But can we share something in just one status not 10. There is a delete button for a reason. I would way rather scroll through my news feed to see what my ex is up to with his cute new girlfriend who dresses to the 9 or to keep scrolling and see just how ugly another ex's girlfriend is and feel sorry for him, than to see what you have to say before coffee.
Facebook, Twitter, and now Instagram are also all about sharing pictures. I share pictures of my daughter everyday because I think she's the cutest most spoiled rotten little egg I've ever seen. But when does it become too much?
I used to think Instagram was just to modify your pictures before posting them to Facebook, and before Facebook added the little modifier to its mobile options. But its not, on Instagram you can follow people, like photos and leave comments. But it doesn't have the whole status updates and groups or events and so on, like Facebook. As far as I know. One evening I was pursing through Kourtney
Kardashians hundreds of photos of her breakfast and I wondered why? What's the point of sharing that? Here I go judging people for sharing to much but just last night I shared a picture of my first crochet hat I ever made. I did it because I was proud of it and needed a pat on the back because the criticism my husband gave it just wasn't enough. So do we share for attention? I'm going to say yes. I shared my daughters illness because I needed some support and ideas of why to do. Just like the reason you shared that your running a marathon this morning because you need digital high fives which equal the like button.
Then theres Twitter which completely confuses me. It's more of just sharing statuses and very few pictures. I guess. I honestly have no idea how to @ someone or # anything. I actually called in number sign before I realized it was called a hashtag. You follow people on Twitter like Instagram, instead of friending them like Facebook. Following someone leans a little more into the stalker side of things. Which I don't know why they didn't think that might be a little strange.
It's honestly getting to complicated, because now when I want to see what someone is up too I have to check all these social media sites. So basically it turns into stalking, which I'm not above btw. And I know for a fact everyone does it. I get friend requests from people I have never even met but they know someone who knows someone who knew me when I was with someone so now they want to know something about me. There should be a message that pops up when you ask them to be your friend that states, "Have you ever even met this person or seen them face to face?" Then you have to click yes or no before proceeding. I don't actually have 483 friends I have like 5 and the rest are just people I know or don't know or met that one drunken night at a party and she was going to be my new BFF. At least until the hangover wore off and I forgot her name.
Then Blogging, my new favorite. I get to come on here and write what basically is a big long status in my view of something or the other. It seems like everyone blogs, everyone about everything. I love it I really do. Sharing all my thoughts and opinions with my readers and not worrying about you judging me because I don't even know who actually reads it. It's great!! So are we a generation of a bunch of over sharer's? Yes and let's just keep on sharing because everyone needs to know that after Writing this I now have to pee. Ok, I peed while writing this. Too much?
Today I am a wife, mother, and an over sharer.
Keep Chasing Those Fireflies!
CJ
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