The most uncomfortable drama on season ten of the Real Housewives of Orange County has been a toss-up between Brooks Ayers possibly faking cancer and Shannon Beador broadcasting her husband’s infidelity on national television.
The drama-packed trailer for the tenth season of the Real Housewives of Orange County has lived up to much of the side-eye inducting antics it promised. Near the eye of that storm of crazy is a chronicle of the marriage troubles between Shannon Beador and her husband David.
In this ninth circle of social media hell where most of us reside, we all deal with a fair amount of oversharing. Sometimes we are the clueless oversharer while other times we’re on the other side of the Facebook wall, gouging out our eyes with forks upon the viewing of yet another drunken Coachella photo or the…
Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen had a child over the weekend. Congratulations! But wait – maybe next time don't tell us so much about how you had that child, says Good Morning America, which aired a segment Thursday about where "the line between 'okay' and 'TMI'" is when it comes to sharing on social media.
About a week ago I began deleting all photos and videos of my children from the Internet. This is proving to be no easy task. Like many parents, I’ve excitedly shared virtually every step, misstep and milestone that myself and my children have muddled our way through.
As a feminist, I'm occasionally accused of both witchcraft and hating children, which isn't fair. I don't hate children; I love them. I only have two problems with children: first, that people keep having them and then acting like the first person in human history to ever have a baby, and second, that people keep…
It's wedding and baby season, which means Facebook's insufferables have joined forces to stuff their weddings and babies so far down your throat that you can't even "LIKE" straight. That's why we need BabyMarriageBook. Before Facebook explodes in a giant baby wedding smugbomb. (Click image to enlarge.)
If you want to date your son's high school best friend, I guess that's your prerogative. But...why are you telling your story to the Daily Mail?
"Maybe I'm prim as hell, but I don't think opening up sexually, constantly=funny. So sick of over-sharers being called 'hilarious.' I'm sorry. I just hate when people think their personal catharsis is funny, audacious entertainment."-Mindy Kaling, via Twitter. [MindyKaling]
For some time now, I've harbored the suspicion that "oversharing" (2008's word of the year!) was a sort of insidious code:
The news may be full of prominent men who couldn't keep it in their pants — but one Wall Street Journal writer thinks it's women's lips that need zipping. Because the real problem with modern marriage is the female overshare.
I decided, a few months ago, that it would take something truly outrageous to make me give any more press to unhappy professional oversharer and exhibitionist Liz Jones. This is what did it:
Today's Wall Street Journal has a pretty simplistic take on how men and women talk about their relationship problems. But underneath the annoying Mars/Venus language, does the Journal have some (sort of) good advice about oversharing?
Today, Salon's Rebecca Traister explores the phenomenon of female writers' "graphic" accounts of the "messy realities of their bodies." Wait: Did someone say our name?!
In an interesting essay in the Sydney Morning Herald, Emily Maguire argues that not only have we lost our capacity for discretion, we resent it. Is oversharing the new etiquette?
There are few disappointments in life as reliable as the New York Times' Modern Love. If there's a point to publishing the dull, self-conscious relationship redux essays of anti-social nincompoops, I have yet to discover it. When it's not about how mommy used to be slutty and had a lot of tattoos before lasering them…
