Some people just do NOT know when to stop. TALKING. (But when else can you exercise freedom of speech?) In the context of our online social media, self-expression usually just produces NOISE. This would manifest in posts of sensitive photos and even personal details that would make others either laugh or cringe.
OVERSHARE is in fact 2008’s WORD OF THE YEAR. Imagine that. And to lay the groundwork for this musing on relationships, privacy and beyond -- let me add that UNFRIEND is Word of the Year for 2009. Are people unfriend-ing oversharers? Or are they unfriend-ing (people with whom they have estranged relations) because they themselves are the oversharers and they want to maintain a semblance of privacy?
Here’s a funny site of Facebook status messages illustrating this concept beautifully. The usual argument by overshare advocates is this: if you’re bothered by it, then you can always choose to ignore it. I agree. But fact is, you’ve already seen/read/visualized it. And there truly are certain images that would take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to get out of your head.
And even if others manage to forget, the Internet will NOT. So be careful, be very careful.
Entry No. 03
Rachelle Mayuga
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