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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone overshares...everything. [b]Where your kids go to college is far more important than checking in at some chain restaurant[/b].[/quote]

Same.  I want to hear about your kids.  I don't care so much about what you had for lunch.[/quote]

I want to hear about the school play. I don't care if you brag about your kid's college acceptance, but I will think less of you. Bragging has long been associated with people who are insecure, living through their kids, or oblivious to others' disappointments. There are good reasons and precedents for these interpretations of your bragging, and no amount of defending bragging on DCUM is going to change how others perceive you. Don't brag.[/quote]

NP here.  Posting a fact - Hooray! Oslo was accepted at Yippee-Ki-Yay University! - is not bragging. [/quote]

Slight correction.  I say 'NP here' in the immediately preceding post.  My husband looked over my shoulder and pointed out that he is 'Same', two postings prior, so technically I suppose I'm not actually 'NP'.  We both use the computer at the kitchen desk.  So, now 'School Play', you've heard from both of us.  Let me know if you want an opinion from our kids.  Interestingly, neither of us post on Facebook but we love to read the posts of our friends and family.  We both think you need to stop projecting about "others' disappointments" and focus more on why you are so "insecure" that you can't read other people's good news without thinking that it is 'bragging'.[/quote]

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