With the immediacy of information that comes with social media, it is easy to feel pressured to update your own followers with all that is going on in your own life. However, this means that the boundaries between private and public experiences are increasingly blurred.
Breakups are one of the most intimate and emotionally charged moments in a person's life, and, for many, they're now a spectacle for online consumption. From Instagram posts to TikTok confessionals, the details of romantic splits are now broadcast to the world, leaving people exposed and vulnerable to public scrutiny.
For celebrities, it seems fairly normalised to display their breakups as they're always under the veil of the public eye. But, for the average person to post about it appears to be very self-indulgent. Those who do care about you will not need an Instagram post to make them check in on you in the aftermath of a breakup. The rest of the world is unlikely to be invested in your private relationship anyway, so a social media post would be irrelevant.
In my opinion, oversharing on social media is unnecessary, especially in regards to breakups. Discussing your relationships online is purely inflammatory and highly unfair to the other person. Private relationships should not be up for public discussion.
