Does anyone else feel like people overshare on Facebook?

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Me of my co-workers made a Facebook post about how CPS took her kids because the school reported her for drug use and said how they don't wanna investigate her deadbeat baby daddy and tagged him. All I could think of is "Did this need to be on Facebook?" I feel like people don't understand the meaning of keeping certain things private anymore and not everything needs to be on social media

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I’m not on social media, partially because it feels like a generally inauthentic and unnatural way of relating to community. I’m so much happier with out it.

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I think sometimes people do over share but I also live for it 😂

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I literally laughed out loud when I read that she tagged him too 🤣

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I agree with someone else, I think a lot of people are deeply lonely and use social media to feel a sense of connectedness, but I’m not sure how much it actually accomplishes this.

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Yup. But the best is when they over share and then get mad at people who comment. It's great. I had a Facebook friend who posted that there were demons in her apartment and her teenage child was trying to kill her. Assuming this was some sort of bat signal, I asked her if she needed help and if I should call the police for her. Well, before she could respond to me, somebody else called the police for a welfare check and she thought it was me and got mad at me 😂 Like shit, I was about to but it really wasn't me!

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I feel like really lonely people overshare personal details for attention and not always necessarily in a bad way, but because they don’t have anyone to talk too. Maybe that’s not the case for her and she genuinely just wants pity, there’s a lot of those out there too, but idk just seems like it’s always the people who have like no real friends that blast their business on Facebook. Definitely not something I would have shared publicly though that’s for sure 😬 I wish the best for her kiddos though 😔

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I guess some people don’t have anything better to do but to jump on fb I have a few on mine that like to announce every single detail of there day or if anything drama related happens.. me on the other hand don’t post much other then family snaps and mines kinda vanilla in comparison but I do feel like these people who post everything it’s like they crave the attention as it’s lacking in their own personal lives, have mounds of fb friends and relationship Status changes on the daily and have a lot going on with zero good friends around them so rely on fb world for advice or just to boost their self esteem or confidence.
Everyone is different I guess.. I just like people to know as little as possible.

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I have family members and friends who do this. I choose to share very little of my private life on social media, I tell people personal things in person but that’s about it. I’m not one for making posts and sharing every detail of my life. 
I have a cousin who got married last year and leading up to the wedding, there was drama between her and her now husband. She was posting all kinds of things about him and I was getting second hand embarrassment. One of my aunts actually commented on one of the posts and told her to stop posting every detail. They got married a few days later and posted like nothing happened 😂 so yes, I definitely think people need to limit what they’re sharing

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They’re not going to investigate the dad if he doesn’t live with them. Yes, that was a big overshare.

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That is why it's called dramabook..

Does anyone else feel like people overshare on Facebook?

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