A list of the new words we are all 'oversharing'

The Chambers Dictionary Word of the Year has been announced. “Overshare”, meaning “to be unacceptably forthcoming with information about one’s personal life”, was selected from a shortlist compiled by the Chambers Editorial Board.

These were the other contenders:

Zero hours

A contract that requires a worker to be available at certain times but does not oblige the employer to offer him or her work.

Bashtag

A hashtag used for critical or abusive comments.

Digital native

A person who has learnt to use computers as a child.

Hipster

Someone born between 1980 and 1990 who looks down on their middle-class culture and self-consciously adopts a Bohemian lifestyle.

Photobomb

To place oneself in the background of a photograph deliberately and without the knowledge of the photographer or subject.

Yolo

Acronym for the phrase “you only live once”.

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