Why It's Not Always Wise To Overshare Your Gory Details

How much of your business should other people know about?

For some, this is an easy question to answer – none. But for those of a certain generation, marked by the impulsivity associated with social media, the “overshare” is a pitfall with which we are already wearily familiar.

Something good happens, we tell the world. Something bad happens, we tell the world.

Even in our bleakest moments, when tragedy befalls us, the smartphone is never far. Reaching for it in times of difficulty and crisis is second nature – whether it helps or hinders.

Modernity, it would seem, is all about unshackling ourselves from the emotional repression of the olden days and allowing our inner worlds to violently erupt through our mouths whenever the notion takes us. A world where those who retain some measure of emotional restraint appear distant, by the seeming transparency on such frequent display.

Of course, that’s not all that’s going on though, is it?