Oversharing

Chapter 147

We overshare publicly and under-reflect privately - Somebody

The snooze button has become my most used instrument - in social media, not on my alarm clock. People say way too much on Facebook and I snooze them for 30 days, unless it is a second infraction and then I unfollow them completely. Like I said, one of my most used instruments. But they don’t just share too much on social media, they just share too much period. We even have a phrase for that too - “too much information” - TMI.

I learned the hard way that oversharing was very dangerous, as I had a job that afforded me 90 minutes of public speaking each week, and I had far too many opportunities to insert my foot in my mouth over and over. In fact, this is one of the reason I started using a full manuscript when speaking, so that I would completely stop oversharing! So that I would completely stop revealing how little was going on in my brain - my lack of reflection and thought!

This lack of reflection is bad, and ubiquitous from where I am sitting. Most everyone I meet is guilty of this, and if I find someone who is actually using their brain, it is so rare, I spend as much time with these people as I possibly can. And am always looking for them!