Overcommunication

"Overcommunication" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Or is it a product of our drifting in an ocean of overcommunication?

Where communication is concerned, both overcommunication and undercommunication are undesirable. Overcommunication wastes both the sender's and receiver's time by transmitting more information than necessary.

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