Are You Oversharing on Social Media? | 47

Call Me Curious

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Society & Culture

4.4 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Are you one of the 4.7 billion people who use social media on a daily basis? While some people still keep a diary, others feel compelled to announce and show every detail of their life on social media. We are curious and interested in the lives of friends and family but do they really need to tell us what they had for lunch or how horrible their breakup was - with photos! How much is okay to share? Host Nikki Boyer and Co-Host Mr. Malone talk with Sarah Bregel, a writer, and self-described oversharer whose article about the end of her marriage went viral. Then they speak with Dr. Nina Vasan, a psychiatrist, and pioneer in digital mental health innovation, to get to bottom of why people overshare and how to use social media in a healthy way.

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0:00.0	From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, or just got-a-no questions you have.
0:16.9	And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is.
0:21.0	Because I've got 21 questions.
0:23.6	I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson.
0:28.3	Call me curious.
0:32.1	Call me curious.
0:34.1	Call me curious.
0:35.1	So tell the truth. Hi there.
0:52.0	Welcome to the show, my curious friends. I love you for listening. So I have a question. When you were young, did you keep a diary? Did you? Because I did. I did. I hid it away for no one to see, only me. And I told my diary everything, who I had a crush on, when I got a bad grade, when I got a good grade, and even when it was
1:11.8	pizza day at school, all the details were locked in that thing. Today, 4.7 billion people
1:18.3	around the world log on to various social media platforms and tell us way too much information.
1:24.5	Their diaries are out there for everyone to not only read, but see. That's right.
1:29.5	There's photos, people. We learn everything about people. And a lot of times, it's stuff that we don't
1:35.1	always want to know. I mean, look, don't get me wrong. I like to see where my friends are going
1:40.2	on their family vacation or the goal that they finally met. And I want to know who had a
1:45.1	baby. But I don't need to know what you ate for lunch. I don't want to see picks of your
1:49.7	voluntary medical procedure. And I don't really want to hear how much you puked at Coachella.
1:55.0	Sorry. So why are we so compelled to share so much and how much is too much? So that's the question today
2:03.2	that we have to ask. Are you oversharing on social media? Hmm. And here's a man that I'd like to
2:11.7	overshare with you. My good friend Malone, hi Malone. Hi, Millon. Hi, Nikki. How are you? Well, I'm revving up to overshare because I
2:22.4	I kind of think I overshare, but why is it that when I do it, it's okay, but what other people do it,
2:29.4	it's annoying? Well, no, you're very businesslike. You do like, you know, anything that, you know, benefits the show or, you know, promotes the show or something like that. You're good with that. But you don't overshare. No, you don't.
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