Self Disclosure...scholars define self-disclosure as sharing information with others that they would not normally know or discover.

Day 3-- and it's Friday! Woohoo! Hats off to everyone who made it through a tough workday, work out, traffic, blah blah... we made it.

I go to bed worried that I may not have much to write about the next day, and then like clockwork something happens and like Batman, I say to myself "TO THE BLOG!"

Self disclosure... it's pretty self explanatory. Here's a definition I found online: scholars define self-disclosure as sharing information with others that they would not normally know or discover. Self-disclosure involves risk and vulnerability on the part of the person sharing the information. (http://www.abacon.com/commstudies/interpersonal/indisclosure.html) 

Have you ever met someone at work, school, in a group of friends, etc and they are immediately an open book? And not an open book in the sense they reveal semi-personal tidbits of info for the sake of a laugh, anecdote, or to add to a conversation (b/c that would be me, ha!) But these people are the kind that you avoid in the break room b/c if you make eye contact you are like chum in thePacific Ocean! Not only are you stuck talking to them when you need to be at your desk, or doing something else, but then they start revealing insight to their personal lives.. the kind of insight that you walk away wondering "Was that a cry for help?" I have a few people in my life like that, male and female. How do you deal with it? 

I am normally not one to decline a conversation, but there has to be a line drawn! If I am at my desk and typing, and looking at my computer screen---WHY do you feel the need to mumble something about your alcoholic boyfriend, and the run in your tights...?? WHHHHHYYYY? Then I am forced to look away from the "fjkwhrioehlsfhndslfiowhrioewh" I am typing on my screen to avoid you, to respond half ass to what you're saying--it's not fair to you or I... yet we keep doing this. There's another person I run into and within 15 minutes I am privy to know that they were a victim of attempted RAPE three times!!???!!

What am I supposed to do with that information?? How am I supposed to process that?? I have been told that I am an easy person to talk to... and that makes me SO happy, however; there's a line that should be drawn right? So, obviously I listen, provide a little feedback, and then thank them for sharing with me...but really...

Same goes for a few closer friends of mine who are okay with filling me in on intimate details of their relationship...I just feel like certain things are sacred? Maybe it's me..

So anyways, I guess this is for everyone out there who know what I am talking about ....and if you don't know what I am talking about... LESS IS MORE. 

Happy Friday... tick tock tick tock...till 5 o'clock! Here's a nice Friday song and picture: