The Need to Share - less is more? From Generation Overshare.

I've always been quite an open person. I'm a bit of an open book - you see what you get. If I have something to say, I usually say it. If I'm angry, it shows. Diplomacy, tact and patience are not assets I have. I try to be more careful than I have been in the past - a lot gets used against you when you're an open person. But it takes a lot of effort, to stop sharing what I think, see or feel. I'm definitely part of "generation overshare". My poor friends will agree - especially those who used to get a letter or page-long email a day (I know many just didn't read through, just is as the case with this blog). At work I'm aware I tend to spam, because I see relevance and something interesting in so many things. I overshare on facebook and twitter. But is less more? Perhaps. I could spend a week, editing a blog entry before I post. I could post my facebook updates on the basis of how many people will find it cool or cute and likeable. I could tweet on the condition I think a tweet will get 78 retweets. But would that be me? Would that make me feel happy, knowing that just one person would have enjoyed one of the random messages I could have sent, but didn't; found something interesting, comforting, or just plain silly in it? Would I feel good, having thoughts, feelings, information just locked up in my own head? No. But do I care about reactions? Of course I do. Nothing hurts as much as writing to a friend several times, and never getting a reply. Sharing important information at work, and simply being ignored. I take it as a hint: less is more. But actually, less is simply less - friends can ignore a two-liner each year just as well, colleagues that key rare insight. Hence I'll just keep sharing. The need to share is greater than the solution to whether to do more or less of it.