Oversharing Online

Online sharing has reached a new high with everyone and anyone writing about themselves, their children, or their new relationships. The internet has created a new platform for people to talk about themselves and everything about them. It's funny how we never have talked about ourselves in such a way in face to face conversations but manage to online. I think that the internet provides a platform for autonomy and an "everything goes" mentality. We aren't fearful of what we post because the backlash is not directly in our face and we feel a sense of safety behind the screen. We feel invincible when we cant see what is attacking us, although it hurts it is usually nothing we pay attention to. I have never felt like oversharing in terms of pictures or any physical representation of myself, but I do love my twitter account. I mostly share funny things that happen to me or my opinions, but I have never been one to post numerous pictures. Even more, I find mommy blogs as more than disturbing most of the time. I understand that you need to learn from others, but more often than not they put more than we need to know about their children. I feel that they are often overexposing their children and that these blogs are setting up unrealistic expectations of motherhood. These mothers only share what they want and what looks best in their lives at the time, not always the truth. I think that these blogs are ways for women to decompress, which is nice, but they are often not the most realistic. I work at a daycare and a few of the mother's upkeep blogs. Upon reading some of these, it's apparent they share things that are onesided and often untrue. In my experience, they have painted pictures of my coworkers and me that are harmful and hurtful. Often these statements are not even true. Also, given the small area in which we live, people know who we are. It is truly annoying. But anyway, these blogs and other social media sites provide a place for people to often overshare and fabricate their lives. I hate to be cynical about social media as I use it and like it, but people tend to go overboard.