Everyone likes to talk about themselves every once in a while, but what is it that compels some people to make it their entire career?

To get a better understanding of this phenomenon, let’s use some of our favorite oversharing writers from movies and TV (like Carrie Bradshaw, Lena Dunham/Hannah Horvath, and even Gossip Girl himself Dan Humphrey & more) to unpack: the reasons why people tend to overshare, how some turned it into an entire career (from books to blogs to TikTok and other social media), and all of those downsides that people often don’t think about until it’s too late…