TMI: Has social media made us oversharers?

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How much is too much when sharing details of your life online?

The Usual Place’s host Natasha Ann Zachariah sits down with TikTokers Candice Gallagher and Shaun Elias Chua, and Twitch streamer Jacey Vong, to find out why they started sharing personal details of their lives online.

As a self-confessed lurker on social media - an Internet user who passively observes what others have put up online - I have found myself thinking about random content creators who have given me so much access to vulnerable, personal details of themselves. Shaun, a marketing and design executive, used social media to come out to his grandmother. He said he did so as he was ready to enter into a relationship.and 3,600 followers on Instagram - realised there are many others out there like him who struggle to understand their sexuality.Shaun Elias Chua takes to social media to document the time when he came out as a gay man to his grandmother.

After a viewer once turned up at her house, Jacey Vong is now more careful about revealing her location or posting about her location in real-time. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE

 

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