[...] Mary Madden, a senior research specialist with the Pew Internet and American Life Project, said that a memoir about pregnancy would offer personal details much like the ones shared online. Social media “collapse all of our personal networks in one space,” she said, allowing the user to reach all connections at once: updates to Mom, a middle-school classmate and a pregnant friend.

“Pregnancy is a point of entry into this community” of moms and moms-to-be, Madden said. “And the sense of oversharing, while it may seem like oversharing to someone outside that community, is actually a gift to someone in the community looking for comfort.”

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