Experts have pointed out the danger of excessive online openness among teenagers

Children began to share a large amount of personal data on social networks more often than a year earlier. In the language of professionals, this phenomenon is called "oversharing" (from the English over ("over") and share ("share"), experts from the monitoring center "Security 2.0" of the Russian Peace Foundation told Izvestia.

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The foundation's specialists conducted a study of the most frequent threats that minors faced on the Internet by May 2025. Oversharing is one of the five most dangerous digital phenomena. Most often, teenagers share geolocation, home address, places of regular stay, information about school, relatives, friends, and personal contacts.

In addition, they often, including inadvertently, post explicit and compromising photos and videos on the Internet. The center's specialists have recorded a 15% increase in such content in open communities compared to the same period in 2024.

Oversharing is dangerous because any facts can be distorted and turned against those who posted them, Svetlana Grishaeva, associate professor at the State University of Management and Candidate of Psychological Sciences, said in a conversation with Izvestia.

"This does not mean that you need to completely shut down. But you need to clearly outline the circle of people you can trust. There are unlikely to be many such people," the expert stressed.

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