Everyone likes to talk about themselves every once in a while, but what is it that compels some people to make it their entire career? To get a better understanding of this phenomenon, let’s use some of our favorite oversharing writers from movies and TV like (Carrie Bradshaw, Lena Dunham/Hannah Horvath, and even Gossip Girl himself Dan Humphrey & more) to unpack: the reasons why people tend to overshare, how some turned it into an entire career (from books to blogs to TikTok and other social media), and all of those downsides that people often don’t think about until it’s too late…
timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Why do we love to share so much?
06:03 Making “oversharing” your job
06:57 The radical, positive side of sharing
07:59 Writers writing oversharing writers…
09:32 The eruption of oversharing online
10:51 Oversharing on modern social media
11:57 The big problems with sharing so much
14:36 Why sharing can be worth it!
