Do you overshare on social media?

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It may come as surprising, but hackers can piece together a great deal of information about you from social media and use it as the means for all manner of attacks. That includes identity theft, social engineering attacks where they impersonate you or someone you know, and even password theft. Avoid oversharing on social media by keeping details like addresses, school names, and other personally identifying information to yourself. Also, set your profiles to private so that only friends and family can see them.

Some people forget that millions of people read what you post, do you overshare?
 
Definitely not. I'm not on any of the traditional social media sites. I have accounts on Twitter and Facebook, but haven't posted in years. If we're counting forums as a form of social media then...yeah, I probably do, lol.
 
What is considered oversharing on social media? To accuse someone of oversharing implies there is a correct amount of personal information to share, and a respectable manner in which to go about doing it. But this is obviously subjective -- so who decides what’s too much and what metric are they using?
 
For me, I will be the judge if I overshare and take whatever consequences come with it.
I really don't care if others think I overshare, basically, it's my problem unless its content is adult. then it stays in private areas if I chose to post.

I like these questions as many of them get conversations happening. :)
 
Just don’t post stuff like your credit card account, home address, and your driver’s license. Don’t go too crazy with the outside of your house either. There’s easy ways to get that information without your social media account anyway…
 
My personal information is never getting in on any social media platforms for any reason whatsoever. If it's a must to provide that details, I will quit the site.
 
I know way too many people who tend to overshare way too much on social media and I have never been a fan of that. I always have a saying that people "air their dirty laundry out in public" as the amount of their personal life they share is shocking. Right from where they are, what they have done, and where they are going the following day. They don't realize just how dangerous it is to do that and how much people can take that information and use it.

I myself keep very limited on what I share on social media. Prefer my personal life to stay private.
 
I do not over share on my personal page. It was about two weeks ago when I posted something. I posted my father's photo and wished him happy birthday. On my business page I share regularly.
 
I overshare with my "friends" and family on Facebook, but I lock down everything so the public don't get to see it all. If you see a picture of my home, then I trust you. I remember sharing a pic of my home elsewhere before Google Lens came into being...and now I can't do that anymore because that's the easy way to get a home address.
 
Some people have moved the base of their lives permanently to social media. Everything about them is lived on social media. Those are the people that can easily be victims of social media based hacking. For me, I use social media just to connect.
 
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