jul 5
2008

The Overshare War

Good column on this whole over-sharing debate: The Overshare War. "I think the people who complain about oversharing are snobs. They want their art filtered, processed, sanitized and read-only. They don't object to emotion per se, they just want it managed and packaged for them."
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It's just the classic "if you don't like it, ignore it" internet rule, on a larger scale. You'd <em>think</em> it'd be easier for complainers to ignore an oversharing blog since it's not like all blogs are aggregated onto one site and you're not being <em>forced</em> to look at their facial pictures. It's just drama for the sake of drama.

posted by BradOFarrell at 2008-07-05 13:44:52

Yeah, but there's a difference between literature and just, "Dear Interweb, I really want to sleep with (name here) because (stupid reason here). <br /><br /> Twitter can be oversharing (do I really need to know that someone is picking lint from toenails? Does anyone?) <br /><br /> It's also intent that decides what oversharing is.

posted by Ironic at 2008-07-06 10:52:51

Gawd, Ironic, you really don't *GET* Twitter, do you? (Sneer)

posted by Catbird at 2008-07-06 12:08:14