TMI Already!

I’m lying on my bed typing this, dressed only in boxer shorts, having  just pigged out on sesame rice crackers.

TMI?

That’s what most folks are increasingly beginning to think.

But I’m not really buying the 3 reasons given for this supposed increase in info sharing.

1. Reality TV. Please. Anyone old enough to remember Ozzy Nelson’s obsession with rocky road ice cream knows what being bored to death by someone else’s interests is. And TMI is basically what made ‘All in the Family’ TV history.
2. Social Networks. Whatever. Anyone who’s ever been to a family picnic knows that dullards were around long before facebook. Think Uncle Leo from ‘Seinfeld’. I doubt Jerry needed to be following cousin Jeffrey on Twitter to know he works for the Parks Department.
3. We work more. If you say so. Somehow, I’m not convinced that in the good old days, Laurel never shared any personal information with Hardy. I also have a hard time viewing the cast of ‘Dinner at Eight’ as a bunch of colleagues with little interpersonal dealings.

No. As much as we’d like to feel we’re so special and no one in the past had to deal with this complicated life we lead, the plain truth is TMI has been around since Eve first bit into that apple.

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