n.
A person who shares too much online, particularly personal information. Also: diarrhea-ist.
Example Citations:
Rock music's most prolific social media diarrheaist apparently failed at her last attempt to verify \@CourtneyLoveUK.
—Maureen O'Connor, " Courtney Love Fails at Quest for Verified Twitter Account: http://gawker.com/5485321/courtney-love-fails-at-quest-for-verified-twitter-account," Gawker, March 4, 2010
Dan, I was thinking "The Wine Diarrheaist", unless that impinges upon Mike's intellectual property rights.
—Bill Klapp, " License to Swill?: http://winediarist.com/license-to-swill/\#comment-679 (comment)," Wine Diarist, June 12, 2011
Earliest Citation:
These are the folks who have never heard the expression "brevity is the soul of wit!" Every e-mail is a mini-novel, a life story, or government report on farm subsidies.
—Pete Blackshaw, " Personalities: The 'Digital Diarrheaist': http://notetaker.typepad.com/machiavelli/2004/08/the_digital_dia.html," Email by Machiavelli, August 14, 2004
Notes:
A blog named Diarrheaist News: http://diarrheaist.blogspot.ca/ ("Bringing you the most revolting, self-indulgent bits of the online community for your self-indulgent pleasure") had a brief and, until now, unmemorable run back in July 2002.
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it is really revoltant: in Italian it should be translated as cac(c)arellista..
New words. 2013.