Oversharing Quotes

“Oversharing? Not vulnerability; I call it floodlighting. ... A lot of times we share too much information as a way to protect us from vulnerability, and here's why.

I'm scared to let you know that I just wrote this article and I'm under total fire for it and people are making fun of me and I'm feeling hurt -- the same thing that I told someone in an intimate conversation. So what I do is I floodlight you with it - I don't know you very well or I'm in front of a big group, or it's a story that I haven't processed enough to be sharing with other people - and you immediately respond "hands up; push me away" and I go, "See? No one cares about me. No one gives a s*** that I'm hurting. I knew it."

It's how we protect ourselves from vulnerability. We just engage in a behavior that confirms our fear.”
― Brené Brown, The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

“Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we Americans, with all of our loud oversharing and need for random hugs and free admissions to people we've just met of deep, traumatic childhood wounds looks just as alien to them.”
― Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

“In the fancy spectacle of life, aspire to find a joy that does not need an audience.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“We have learned about some people from their social media feeds way more than their families have learned from years of living with them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I’ve always hated being asked if I’m ‘OK’. The available answers are either to lie and say ‘I’m fine’ or to massively and embarrassingly overshare.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“This planet is information' the Mayor says. 'All the time, never-ceasing. Information it wants to give you, information it wants to take from you to share with everyone else. And I think you can respond to that in two ways. You can control how much you give it, like you an I have done [...]'
'Or you can open yourself to it completely,; I say.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“Only lame people make status updates about music on Facebook after college. Unless you’re actually a musician or music journalist or blogger or something, and have some direct involvement in what you’re posting, nobody cares about what the fuck you’re listening to or your thoughts on it.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“I’m not freaking out. I’m turned on. I’m thinking about sniffing your bed pillows like a weirdo, contemplating if it’d be better for you to bend me over the island or the couch, and my ovaries are basically exploding—pew, pew, pew—like fireworks because you’re so good with Chunky that I can imagine you as the one of those dads who’d play tea party with your daughter. And all of that is making me hot and nervous . . . and . . . and . . . I should stop talking now.”
― Lauren Landish, Drop Dead Gorgeous

“I’m sorry, I just totally upchucked my emotions right there, didn’t I?”
― Tif Marcelo, Once Upon a Sunset

“The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal.”
― Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six