Overshare
On December 1, Webster’s New World Dictionary announced “overshare” as 2008’s Word of the Year.
Former editor of Gawker.com, Emily Gould first popularized the word overshare in New York Times Magazine article- Exposed. That column sparked a massive public debate with a small army of bloggers trying to judge the value of intimate personal blogging.
View Emily Gould discussing the consequences of her oversharing and the massive reaction to her New York Times Magazine article in Digital Age interview Do Bloggers Overexpose Themselves?
Geekcentric’s Michael Duff refers to the battle between fans of artistic personal disclosure and the people who hate it, as ‘the overshare war’.
And posts this question … “where’s the line between sharing and oversharing? If I publish a detailed first-person account of a fight with my family in a novel, I can win awards and get touted in the New Yorker. If I do the same thing on a blog, I’ll be condemned as a narcissistic oversharing hack. What’s the difference?” Read the rest of this entry »
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