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- verb Present participle of
overshare .
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Examples
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-- David Arquette once again oversharing to Howard Stern Wednesday about the aftermath of his breakup with Courteney Cox, and how that first hookup was "the end of all the intimacy I shared with my wife."
Quoted: Classy guy David Arquette still keeping us up to date on his breakup The Reliable Source 2010
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I was able to make my mistakes in oversharing, overexposure, and unmitigated egotism in a smaller pond, without the entire New York media world and Jimmy Kimmel staring at me.
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And when she cashes in on book and production deals for her "oversharing" -- and I give it 10-to-1 odds she does -- then maybe the rest of us can skip the rage, take a breath, and let ourselves be proud of the creative hurdles we've jumped to survive in this metastasizing business.
Melissa Lafsky: The Gould Effect: Does Blogging About Your Life Necessarily Ruin It? 2008
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When Gould wrote a lengthy article for the New York Times in 2008 about her compulsion to reveal details of her private life online - she coined the term "oversharing" - more than 1,200 irate comments were left on the
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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But blogging the intimate details of daily life, no matter how media-savvy or eloquently phrased and parsed, raises questions of privacy - of "oversharing" - that will continue to escalate as the online world infuses what we used to call "reality."
unknown title 2009
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The concerns come after years of what some users now describe as oversharing on the Internet.
Internet privacy comes to head; Facebook to change tools, Google accused of wiretapping 2010
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Not a portrayal we commonly hear of Web 2.0 its potential to allow "oversharing" is a far more common critique, but one that can be just as accurate, particularly when we're talking about public figures.
Colin Delany: The Irony Inherent in Sarah Palin's Social Media Image Machine Colin Delany 2011
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Not a portrayal we commonly hear of Web 2.0 its potential to allow "oversharing" is a far more common critique, but one that can be just as accurate, particularly when we're talking about public figures.
Colin Delany: The Irony Inherent in Sarah Palin's Social Media Image Machine Colin Delany 2011
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As reported by San Jose Mercury News columnist, Chris O'Brien, last week's 2010 Future of News and Civic Media Conference at MIT, brought quite a few proponents of so called 'oversharing':
Marguerite Manteau-Rao: What Would the Buddha Say to Mark Zuckerberg? 2010
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He expands on his answer, adding that the your information could be made available not only to curious searchers or prying friends, but also to the authorities, and that there's little recourse for people worried about unintentionally "oversharing" online:
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