Oversharing Rant

In the reality thinking that no one reads my blog except family and a few friends from college (and even then theres never much to read so I doubt anyone looks forward to it) I'm going to go on a little rant about oversharng. In September I transferred to a little attraction called Star Tours. The people there are different there any other location I have worked at. The average age is much younger, the drinking, swearing and other things average is much higher. I also work with a lot more guys then I ever did before, and they sure like to hug. I have already had to tell one guy he is not allowed to hug me and another that I avoid as much as possible.

That brings me to the oversharer. I am a private person. When I date guys I usually keep it pretty quiet only giving out few details and telling those I trust most. But how do you react when an oversharer asks you out? This guy at work ask me out and his three facebook status's progressively gave out more information. So there I am, a private person, with everyone knowing that we went on a date. Needless to say, I turned him down when he asked me out again. I can't have my dating life posted all over Facebook.

See even as I write this blog post I'm still barely giving you any details about the situation. But as the years have passed and Facebook has stayed strong, I have felt less and less the need to share status's, post pictures, and most importantly check in so the whole world knows where I am. I do use Four Square, but I can prevent everyone from seeing that except those I trust most. Anyway, as I read through Facebook I often wonder why people feel the need to share all of the most intimate details of their dating lives, their pregnancies, the people they hate, how many hours they worked that day, where they ate breakfast lunch and dinner, and most importantly the details of their illness and what is coming out...ewwww....

Now don't get me wrong, I am still on Facebook. I even update my status occasionally, I want people to know what's going on in my life, but lets be real, if you only know whats going on in my life through Facebook, then you have absolutly no idea whats going on in my life. The worst part about the oversharer is that they spend so much time on Facebook that they will notice if you unfriend them. Sure you can unsubscribe to there posts, but then if you don't check you wont know if they are posting something about you. Then you go to work the next day and someone else knows your exact whereabouts the day before and who all you hung out with. This causes the reaction to stop hanging out with the oversharer because you no longer trust them. and the most important problem of working with the oversharer who also loves hugging is how do you tell them not to hug you anymore? You dont want to hurt their feelings, they are a nice person with a few flaws. So what do you do? You ask others for suggestions for to dealing with the oversharer, but thats pointless. Wanna know why? Because everyone else just wants to tell you what happened to them and there situation. They never have helpful suggestions and they just overshared so much more information then you ever looked for. Its hopeless.

Yes, the point of this post was to rant and overshare, thats why I titled it "oversharing rant." It's pointless and rambling. But, my dear blog readers, there is one thing that can never be overshared...any blog posts or facebook status/pictures about my nephews and niece (although there is nothing about Becca, cough cough Anna). Other then that what you write/post/picture/ect may get boring so dont be offended if I don't read it or stop halfway through.

Pointless rant over!