How Much is TMI on Social Media?

She posted what?! From where?! Saying what?! Sorry, but aren’t some things supposed to be private? Today we’re asking one of the many controversial questions that surround modern day social media – how real is too real? We’ve all been there: you’re scrolling through your feed halfheartedly, taking in the lattes and the flowers and the OOTD’s, when something out of the ordinary stops you mid-flick. Be it a particularly jarring photo of something gory or intimate, or a long-winded paragraph waxing poetic about a bad day, you’re caught off guard, suddenly forced to digest something a lot heavier than you’re used to seeing on the given medium. How do you react? One camp might say it’s a welcome change of pace — a dose of realness from the poster reaching out to their audience for moral support, and a refreshing message amongst sameness and “perfection”. The other camp might equate it to a publicity stunt — an act of self-deprecation made to ...read the rest of the story here

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