overshare

present singular third person overshares · participle present oversharing · participle past overshared · past overshared

1. transitiveTo share too much or in excess.

   Antonyms: undershare

2. intransitiveTo offer inappropriate disclosure concerning one's personal life to others, now especially on social media.

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

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

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   "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.

   2007, Carol Culver, Manderley Prep, page 25

   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.

   2012 December 10, Roger Cohen, “Time to Tune Out”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   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.

   2013 April 2, CNN Living Staff, “Beware the parental overshare”, in CNN

   Most parents do not overshare online because they are malicious; they simply have not fully considered the significance of their child’s digital footprint.

   2020 August 4, Stacey Steinberg, “Why Parents Should Pause Before Oversharing Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

plural overshares

1. An instance of sharing or divulging too much.

   In light-hearted cases, the response to an overshare may be the collective online “Ewwww!” and some online needling.

   2019, Management Association, Information Resources, Cyber Law, Privacy, and Security, page 635

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   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.

   2021 October 22, Kayla Ringelheim, “Two Wrongs Don’t Make Mr. Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN