Social media is a fickle beast. It’s tough to toe the line between over-sharing, bragging, and boring, and nowhere is this line more blurred than when traveling. This dilemma is at the heart of a recent study in Psychological Science, which contends that while your experiences may be epic, no one wants to hear about them. Even worse, force feeding your followers with Facebook posts and Instagram uploads might have negative social repercussions for you.
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