Tag: OVERSHARE

Share It's three o'clock in the morning. You're seeing double, your mouth is parched, and you're prowling Facebook. For reasons that will only become apparent tomorrow, you're suddenly overcome with the urge to post a scandalous video on your co-worker's Wall. It seems like a great idea now, but come tomorrow morning, you're guaranteed to find yourself stricken with not only a pounding headache, ...

Imagine a service completely dedicated to asking and answering questions anonymously. What sort of questions would you ask? Would you push people to reveal their darkest secrets or deepest desires? Or would you ask pointless things like "do you believe in ghosts?" Sadly, Formspring.me seems to trend toward the latter. The service, which Valleywag's Foster Kamer described as "crack-like," ...

The Internet may promote massive oversharing (spawning such acronyms as TMI), but doctors and dentists have had to deal with the uncomfortable, and disgusting, phenomenon since the days of Hippocrates and his eponymous oath. From cocktail parties to sporting events, physicians and oral surgeons are never safe from the "Hey, you mind taking a look at this?" guy. Thanks to Thanko, no one is safe ...

It should go without saying that we absolutely love the Net. The Web of Intertubes (forget the educational purposes) allows everyone to feel a little bit better about themselves, if only through pointing out other people's foibles, insecurities, and moments of weakness. And then mercilessly making fun of them. Web users constantly post regretful comments that result in firings, arrests, and, ...

The editors of Webster's New World dictionary have announced 'overshare' as the Word of the Year, reports Urlesque. In the above video, Mike Agnes, the dictionary's Editor in Chief defines 'overshare' thusly: Typically a verb, but also used as a noun, it is the name given to 'too much information,' whether willingly offered or inadvertently revealed. It is the word for both the tedious ...