You can take a look at my FriendFeed stream today and find out that I’ve used both Gmail, Yahoo and Facebook today - not because I posted or tweeted this myself, but thanks to a tracker I installed for Wakoopa, a site that aims to socialize our application usage.  Going through the public stream, I can see that LouCypher has recently used Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger.  Hasan has accessed the Command Prompt and used WordPress.  Haggis (Sean) has visited Classmates.com.

Doesn’t this seem like a bit much?

I pinged some of the folks on Twitter and FriendFeed for answers to this question - Are we sharing too much on social networks?

@jak440 - “YES!”
@hearsmusic - “When people are dying for changing their status on facebook, I think so, yes…”
@johnrogers - ” “too much” is relative to me. I am who i am, and tend to share everything. nothing to hide really”
@hbombx - “Yeah, some of the “meet me hear if you want” sound too much like “I’m alone and easy to abduct.” ”
@rahsheen - “I don’t know about sharing too much, I was actually thinking of going the full monty….ok not really…LOL” 
@rorowe - “There was a great article in Wired ~6 mo. ago about a guy who literally put *everything* online so the FBI’d leave him alone.”  (He later tweeted the article URL - here it is.)

Amber aka SDA - “A little”
Akiva Moskovitz - “What do you mean? I don’t even know your blood type… yet.”
Helen Sventitsky - “I’ve always shared too much. Half my offline friends block me because I’m such an embarrassment to them online, LOL! :D”
JMS likes you - “Perhaps”
Niki Costantini - “Well, it’s not that we are obliged to share everything, aren’t we? So “too much” is only up to us at the end of the day :)”
Sparky - “You are right. People share way too much on social networks. Like Akiva’s social security number 526-87-2412″
Vijayendra Mohanty - “Sharing personal information happens when you are not really ‘doing it’ also. Like metadata. The other kind of sharing (links, pictures) is a good thing, isn’t it?”
anna awesomesauce - “I was talking to some college students about to enter the work force, and one was like, “should I clean up my facebook page” answer: vehemently “yes!”
 tiffany needs a tissue - “i am. i need to stop that.”

So what do you think - are we sharing too much? And what do you think of Wakoopa - does this type of application cross the line between acceptable and “way too much”?  Comment away!