is it TMI? (too much information)

here i am!  a little slow on the draw today but here nonetheless.

i’m not sure why, but i’m having a hard time with some online communities that are working under a christian umbrella.  i don’t mean to judge others intentions or actions, but i’ll tell ya where i’m coming from…..

i had the laptop open to a website and to a thread (can not remember which one), and left it like that while i went and did something else (can’t remember what!  LOL)  well, dh sat down at the laptop and started reading.  he later approached me in regards to what he had read.  he asked me if i posted everything about my daily life’s ins and outs with details like he had just read about someone elses on message boards.  he felt like he had read too much, and suggested i not participate in online gossip.  i’m always amazed at the amounts of things people share, and the types of things.  some have no real harm or even too much information…but then also have absolutely no value to bettering themselves or anyone else. 

i need to figure out if forums (even those who that are christian communities) the newest outlet for the stay at home phone gossip moms?  is that what i’m using them for? 

how do you feel about sharing things online?  do you know any of the online friends IRL, and would you share all these things with them IRL?  i think we often justify ourselves by telling ourselves we need ’support’ in our situation, or we want to ’support’ others in their situation.

many times i’ve read things online where i’ve felt like i’ve been given TMI…and there’s been times where i’ve been too quick to reply and given TMI.

i’m trying to be a woman of grace, love, and forgivness….and i’m trying to grow in my roles as a mother and wife.  there’s been many times i’ve been blessed in these areas in online communities.  there has also been many times where i’ve escaped my real life and ‘lived’ in an online life without really thinking much about how much or how little i typed.  (just like i tend to do at times IRL (in real life), with what i say.  i have been a part of the online community for about 4 or 5 years now, and have learned a lot in that time.  i started with huge cautions about revealing who i was, but in that i was also allowed to have too much freedom in what i said….cause i could hide behind my usernames and faceless identity.  i wasn’t rude, but i also wasn’t myself.  i’ve tried to build an online ‘face’ or character as true to life as possible in the last while, and have that as a part of my blog welcome page as something i want to keep focused on here as well.  i’m a real person, with real hands typing my real thoughts.

i love the opportunity i have to read and share online.  i pray that what i share will reveal more and more of the characterisitics of who i am, and who i want to become IRL (in real life).