In Mary Katharine Ham’s article, “We Shall Overshare”, she states that the problem of social media is that people overshare personal information online. The writer’s main idea explains that people need to realize that there are consequences to whatever they post online. The writer thinks that it’s considered an erosion of the person’s dignity. A user of social media should never post anything that includes “…narcissism, banality, and plain old stupidity” (Ham 5). A person on social media should never risk posting anything that will come back and haunt them. Ham does use a lot of social media pages, but is always cautious. She considers her online life a “balancing act” (Ham 3), in which she knows what to post and what not to post. In the end,