How much is too much information?

How much information is too much information? With the rise of digital media, privacy has lost meaning, while sharing has been taken to a whole new level. Sharing every waking minute of their day to day lives.

Did you brush your teeth this morning? Oh, you ate a salad for lunch? How was your workout session at the gym after dinner? What kind of tea do you drink before going to bed?

Thanks to media like Snapchat, sharing any of these details is easy as pressing a button. Think about it, how many times have you seen a nature picture or gym picture on someone’s story? How many times have you seen a food picture from your best friend at brunch?

I am here to tell you that our society today tends to overshare.

Maybe you saw an overly personal tweet about a dramatic breakup, or maybe it was an overly detailed Instagram caption about how hungover you were last night. Whatever the case, how do overshares on platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat, make you feel?

I wanted to experience that feeling of oversharing using Snapchat. I found an acquaintance and experimented. I snapped him every little thing I did one day and he responded in the beginning a couple of times, but as the day went on he quickly started to lose interest and I would receive an open but no response type deal.

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What I learned through this experiment is that caring about other people’s reactions is a natural part of sharing things. But social media so often turns people into strange, oversharing self-promoters. We end up living our offline lives thinking about capturing moments to share so we can get lots of likes. We fill our online permanent record with sometimes meaningless things. We try to not care about strange measures of self-worth, like how many people follow us, and whether that’s more than someone else. We need to stop and rethink about our actions on social media platforms.