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We’ve all been guilty of it at one point or another.
Channing Smith for Glamour
Oversharing fell precipitously out of fashion near the end of the 2010s.
But now it seems we may be entering a second age.
A few things cinched it for me.
The curiouscat-killing controversyengulfing the trendy Los Angeles restaurant Horses.
Jameela Jamil regaling a horrified Al Roker with a tale about abooty call gone horribly wrong.
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barkerpacking on the PDAfor every tourist in Disneyland to behold.
Priyanka ChopraclaimingNick Jonas saw her win Miss World in 2000, when he was seven and she was 17.
Christina Aguilera talking abouther vaginaand being a promoter of the swallow, as opposed to spitting.
It’s hard (though not impossible) to overshare with your friends and your family.
But normally, there has to be some level of unfamiliarity.
Oversharing is like drinking too much, advice columnist Heather Havrilesky oncewrote.
You dont recognize youre the only one doing it until its too late.
Oversharing isn’t a function of quantity.
It’s a calculus of context and perceptionthe liminal distance between the oversharer and their audience.
And the oversharing allegations are difficult to beat once you’ve been charged.
But thelong-awaited release of her memoirnext month feels somehow right on time.
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Reddit and legacy subreddits like r/confessions started in 2008, an early rumbling.
The 2010s turned oversharing into a personality trait.
By the end of the decade, however, it was considered a contagious disease.
Lena Dunham’sGirlsdebuted on HBO in 2012.
Oversharewas declared Chambers Dictionary’sWord of the Yearin 2014.
Oversharing became a political buzzword too, as it pertained to the NSA and WikiLeaks.
From there, the trend began to peter out.
Now we’re looking at what could be a resurgence.
What’s different, of course, is that our collective threshold for oversharing is much higher.
The pandemic encouraged us tobring our whole selves to work.
Bad taste is routinelyreclaimedas good.
Until, inevitably, the pendulum swings back toward conventional signifiers of good taste.
The clock app’s current fascination with theold-money aestheticis a prime example.
Too much information has always been my least favorite phrase because what exactly constitutes too much information?
It seems like it has a lot to do with who is giving you the information.
And I feel as though there’s some sense that society trivializes female experiences.
And so when you share them, they aren’t givenconsideredas vital as their male counterparts.
Oversharing can be truly laudable too.
TheBachelorfranchises have been fairly critiqued for their at times clumsyhandling of tragedy.
And perhaps a bit more fun too.
Maybe we’re okay with being perceived again and we’re craving closeness.
Or maybe it’s the pervasive sense that nothing is permanent or promised.
In this economy, who cares?
