overshare

From over- +‎ share.

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overshare (third-person singular simple present overshares, present participle oversharing, simple past and past participle overshared)

1. (transitive) To share too much or in excess.

   Antonym: undershare

2. (intransitive) 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^[1], →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.

   • 2013 April 2, CNN Living Staff, “Beware the parental overshare”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     More often than not, the person does know the “offending” parent and has been pushed to the edge. If a submitter says, “This person never usually overshares,” I’ll take that into consideration and might not run the submission. But most of the time, that’s not the case. Once a poop picture oversharer, always a poop picture oversharer.

   • 2018 January 23, John Sutherland, “Oversharing has its perils, but telling all about my mother worked for me”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     I’ve overshared about my mother in print. Let me briefly reshare. It’s complicated.

   • 2020 August 4, Stacey Steinberg, “Why Parents Should Pause Before Oversharing Online”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →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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overshare (plural overshares)

1. 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^[5], →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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