This may not happen so much on Facebook or Twitter or any place where your online identity is closely linked to your offline one, but the internet can actually

This may not happen so much on Facebook or Twitter or any place where your online identity is closely linked to your offline one, but the internet can actually make that kind of "over-sharing" easier. When people are anonymous or pseudonymous online, this can remove the inhibitions that keep them from talking about their innermost thoughts and secrets. The result of this is that, sometimes, groups of anonymous strangers will talk publicly about their feelings and be surprisingly kind to one another.