TMI

I check Twitter several times a day (you could call me an addict), and I see a multitude of tweets that should have gone, well, untweeted. If you're an avid user of the microblogging site, you probably already know what is and isn't appropriate to tweet, but just in case you need a refresher, here're four things you should think twice about posting to your stream.

• That you're looking for a new job . . . while still employed. — If you're tired of your current position, it's best to take the safe route in finding a new job to call home. Update your LinkedIn account, start sending out résumés, and for Pete's sake, don't start tweeting about how tired/bored/annoyed you are with your job and co-workers. Recruiters may spend a few minutes looking over your résumé, but you can bet they spend a ton of time Googling you and your online activity.
• That you're single . . . before actually breaking up. — What's the worst way to break up with someone? A Post-it note or text message may be brutal, but finding out that your significant other is newly "single" on Facebook or Twitter is pretty unforgivable.

See the rest, and add your own suggestions in the comments (or our Facebook page) after the break.

Yesterday on a very quiet bus to work a girl was talking to her mom on her cell. The topic of conversation? How her dad has been cheating on her mom for three years, resulting in a very awkward bus ride for the rest of us. I asked you for your TMI bus stories, and you delivered with some crazy public-transit tales! Read them below, and if you have one to add feel free to share it in comments!

• "The funniest is when people pay their bills and loudly announce their CC# on a bus full of people! Really?! I guess they are confident and trusting of everyone on the bus! Guess they never heard of identity theft?! The topper is when they also announce their 3 from the back of the card! Some people just don't think." — Devia
• "I heard a woman on the train telling a coworker about how she was borderline stalking her ex . . . creepy!" — Mandy
• "A girl was talking loudly with her friend about who knows what but I do remember her saying 'does her mom know I had an abortion?' . . . not in a concerned way, she was talking as if people get abortions on a regular basis, and she was fairly young too" — Sarah
• "One time a guy on my silent, packed bus started loudly reading out his credit card number, including security code. Everyone on the bus started cracking up, and one girl shouted out (jokingly, I hope) 'I'm writing this down.' I've also heard a woman discussing her AND her boyfriend's diarrhea with her doctor and a guy confront his friend about a rumor he'd cheated on his girlfriend. Trust me, when you commute on crowded buses, you often can't NOT overhear someone else's loud convo." — Mary

Source: Flickr User Jesse Kruger

Sometimes mom information is more than a person can bear. While the graphic details of a c-section infection is water cooler conversation for one woman, it might make another lady's stomach turn. Depending on the parents involved, kid chatter can go from tub toys and tattling to homework issues and head lice in a matter of minutes. And that's appropriate when both parties are willing, but what happens when someone doesn't want to hear about parenthood? From between-the-sheets details of postpartum sex to a play-by-play description of water birth, how do you halt unwarranted conversations? Do you take the polite approach or get right to the point?

I suppose this makes sense: a UK-based price comparison website predicted that homeowners insurance rates could rise up to ten percent thanks to the popularity and use of location-based services like Twitter and Facebook. I've already suspected that Foursquare could equal overshare thanks to the "check-ins" that let everyone know where you are (or where you're not: home), and insurance companies could be bracing for an increase in break-ins because of it.

Aptly-named website PleaseRobMe is trying to make people aware of how easy it is to determine whether your place is empty by locating and compiling tweets and status updates of people who obviously aren't home, using it as a "slap across the face" to make you more aware of what you tweet. I'm pretty darn careful when it comes to broadcasting where I am, but that's not to say I don't like to brag a bit when I'm at a really great restaurant, or seeing a show I'm excited about. At least the knowledge that my renters insurance rates could spike will make me even more cautious about what I'm declaring to the world! Want some tips on how to keep your location private? Then just read more

Confession time: I'm kind of a sucker for Ryan Reynolds, and Just Friends is one of my guilty pleasure movies. So imagine my excitement about this morning's news that Reynolds is teaming up with Anna Faris once again for the upcoming comedy TMI. They'll play a couple who learns that "while honesty is the best policy for a relationship, 'too much information' might not be the best thing."

It already sounds like a premise we've seen before in movies like Liar Liar and The Invention of Lying, but I have faith in Reynolds's chemistry with Faris and both actors' comedic timing. On the other hand, this could definitely end up as one of those over-the-top movies that grosses you out more than it makes you laugh (I'm already predicting a fair amount of overshare about bodily functions).

Are you all for this reunion, or should Ryan Reynolds keep sticking with more serious projects (or even just ones with better titles)?

Thanks to a reader with an issue (sorry, reader!), we have an awkward scenario requiring your advice. (Have some awkward tales of your own? Join our Awkward! group to get etiquette advice from other readers — that's where we got this gem!)

"I have this really good friend. I love her to death, but she tends to overshare with me, and it's pretty uncomfortable at times. Every time she has sex, I get a text. "Just had amazing sex!" "He's soo great in bed . . . just had the best sex ever!" (Just some of the examples that come to mind.) I get one of these texts almost daily, and it really drives me nuts. I'm afraid that if I say this to her she'll think she can't tell me anything. (She tends to react dramatically.) We are really close and do share a lot, but I don't need an update everytime she gets it on. I don't know what to do!"