Oversharing makes me uncomfortable

DISCLAIMER: This is a personal opinion

I have always had a problem with people who posted their report cards on social media. Now don't get me wrong. There is absolutely nothing wrong with showing the world how hard you have worked for something. However after every semester, whenever these screenshots flooded my social media timelines, I cringe.

To overshare means to "reveal an inappropriate amount of detail about one's personal life."

Growing up in a very superstitious African household, I learned very early that no one must know what you are doing because not everyone wants the best for you. It was definitely more dramatic. I think the exact words were "the witches in the village are watching so be careful." If you are African or Ghanaian you know exactly what I am talking about.

This has stuck with me all my life (the less dramatic version) so I am very particular about what I put on my social media. My thoughts are all over the place at the moment. but bear with me, somewhere in all the blabbing lies a point.

The oversharing epidemic in May and December can be a bit overwhelming. It almost makes you feel like the world is judging you for not sharing your grades too. But here is the question I have. Why? Why do people you don't even know have to know very specific and personal details about you?

I am the kind of person who will not even tell you that I am making "silent moves" because I feel like that's telling you that I am doing something. I want you to think that I am doing nothing. Not because of what my grandma taught me but because I am not ready to be completely vulnerable or transparent.

This is what I mean. I feel like when you start sharing a lot of your personal life on the internet (which is just an endless and limitless something to me) you should be ready to share the good, the bad and the ugly of it all. Yeah... I am not about that life. Trust and believe people are looking at you sideways when you don't post your grades the next semester. I have been one of those people.

Let's move away from grades. Relationships. The moment your 571 followers and I can tell that you and your MCE are no longer together or are fighting, sis, TMI. We did not forget what you said yesterday about him buying you *insert specific details of gifts*, him being the best thing since sliced bread and how you will never let him go. Then suddenly people feel the need to weigh in.

I am not saying that you shouldn't share your good news. However, the internet is not where to go into detail. I am a firm believer in someone being encouraged through your testimony. However, what the location of the new house God blessed you with gotta do with it, sis? Don't even tell us the city because people memorize how places look like... 

I am not judging those who like to share every single detail but did we really need to know all that?

What do you think about that?