Brief ramble on oversharing…

I’ve been thinking a lot about oversharing lately – you know, when someone only needs a certain amount of information but you continue to explain yourself anyway. That’s an overshare.

Particularly, it’s been on my mind whether social media causes us to become ‘oversharers’ in other areas of our lives, too. We become so habituated to sharing the whole story – even if it’s in fits and spurts – that we continue to overshare when we step away from the keyboard.

Oversharing is obviously a rampant problem on sites like Facebook. I’ve done it, you’ve probably done it, and we all hear stories of the person who did it much too big ‘that one time’.

Perhaps a ’stop the oversharing’ PSA is in order…

Moving with Social Media?

I spent the last two weeks moving out of San Pedro and closer to ‘the big city’. All of the work I did in moving made me wonder 1) how I could have done it without Craiglist, Google and friends and 2) how it might have been easier if I’d connected with other people moving the same weekend.

Granted, Craigslist is fantastic for letting people who are also moving find you and the things you may have that they may want, but what about van sharing or things they haven’t thought about wanting, yet, but will want soon?

I got rid of several items on the good ol’ Craigslist that couldn’t come with me (like a loveseat which was pure torture to divest myself of; I seriously couldn’t sleep because I didn’t know what I’d do with it!)

I also had a fun situation with the van that I’d planned to rent from Ryder truck but which I couldn’t have because someone else hadn’t yet returned it! I envision a social network for movers (or maybe just a Twitter group?) where people moving the same weekend could split the rental of a moving truck. There were at least 2 other apartments in my complex moving out; why shouldn’t I have known they were moving ahead of time and we could have shared resources?

There are so many untapped areas we can take the power of organization through social media – so APOC, let’s get to work!

(BTW, no pic this time; for some reason loading a pic is crashing Firefox tonight…)