It's Cards on the Table Time

"Such intimate details used to be considered too embarrassing to share. But with Facebook and Twitter, young people think nothing of confiding in strangers. Often the less the students know the person they are communicating with the more willing they are to spill. And they do it bluntly, now that they are used to summarizing life in 140 characters."

Steven Winzenburg at The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the rise in students oversharing personal information.