Providing too little information or context when blogging or tweeting. With the ubiquitous status updates on Facebook and Twitter, people forget that it can be helpful to provide enough context for a message to be meaningful. So, ironically, while people tend to overshare, they also undershare at the same time!
Guy 1: I got a tweet last night from Jim, he said, "this is so effing great!"
Girl 1: I saw that, too. Why does he constantly undershare?!
Guy 1: Probably wasn't that great.
Girl 1: I saw that, too. Why does he constantly undershare?!
Guy 1: Probably wasn't that great.
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1. expressing with restraint or lack of emphasis, usually used for an ironic' or rhetorical effect.
2.basically a figure of speech that writers use to subtly make a situation less important or serious than it really is.
2.basically a figure of speech that writers use to subtly make a situation less important or serious than it really is.
Saying "We've had a little rain," when the neighborhood is flooded. Now that is an understatement.
The last line of Frost's "Birches" illustrates understatement: "One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
The last line of Frost's "Birches" illustrates understatement: "One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."
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Get the understatement mug.The state when one feels less involved in posting stuff on social media than one desires to, frequency-wise or volume-wise, usually in order to overly express one's self or to fulfill a business need, thus experienced by extroverts and business people.
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