Tag: OVERSHARING

Tommy Christopher, a White House correspondent for Mediaite and owner of Daily Dose, had a heart attack on Sunday. So, presumably after calling 911, he took to Twitter to write: "I gotta be me. Livetweeting my heart attack. Beat that!" A minute later, he updated his condition, tweeting "Paramedics think I will live." Emboldened by his optimistic prognosis, he tweeted again, less than 30 minutes ...

As we've reported before, thieves, scammers and other charlatans sometimes find their targets on Twitter and Facebook, especially when the soon-to-be victims post innocent status updates like, "My 18 HDTVs will be so lonely in my unlocked house while I'm on vacation for the next month," veritably inviting criminals to track them down. Now Brazil's favorite crime-sport of kidnapping has been thrown ...

Here is this week's Reason That Twitter Should Be Banned. In yet another high-profile overshare, Octavia Nasr, the Lebanese-born Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs for CNN, was fired Tuesday for posting a single tweet about the passing of one of Hezbollah's most influential clerics. She wrote: "Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a ...

The indulgent practices of Google-stalking and self-searching both surfaced as soon as Google was born, and statistics from three years ago already indicated that over half of all adults admitted to Google snooping. The proliferation of such search engine spying -- coupled with the innumerable amount of Web-related arrests, suspensions, firings and expulsions -- has apparently inspired people to ...

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, ...

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 ...