Oversharing is in the eye of the beholder

I got to quote Thomas Jefferson in an essay I wrote for the Pew Research Center’s FactTank blog today:

“Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself?”

It’s about Lisa Bonchek Adams and the spotlight that has been thrown on the use of social media in health care. I hope you’ll read it and let me know what you think, either here or in the comments on the post: The social life of health information.