overshare
English
Verb
overshare (third-person singular simple present overshares, present participle oversharing, simple past and past participle overshared)
- To share too much or in excess.
- To offer inappropriate disclosure concerning one's personal life to others, now especially on social media.
- 2007, Carol Culver, Manderley Prep, page 25:
- "I've been told by certain people that I have a tendency to overshare with strangers. I hope I haven't bored you with the details of my life.
- 2012 December 10, Roger Cohen, “Time to Tune Out”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- To be clear, I love Twitter. It is the culture of oversharing and status anxiety that disturbs me. And that is inseparable from the grip of social media.
- 2020 August 4, Stacey Steinberg, “Why Parents Should Pause Before Oversharing Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Most parents do not overshare online because they are malicious; they simply have not fully considered the significance of their child’s digital footprint.
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Translations
to offer inappropriate disclosure
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Noun
overshare (plural overshares)
- An instance of sharing or divulging too much.
- 2019, Management Association; Information Resources, Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security, page 635:
- In light-hearted cases, the response to an overshare may be the collective online “Ewwww!” and some online needling.
- 2021 October 22, Kayla Ringelheim, “Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- The sore throat was because of his late night and deep connection with another woman, which he confessed to Zerrin in an honest but unsolicited overshare.
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