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When friend groups struggle with the limits of radical transparency

Our friend group started sharing everything openly including our salaries and relationship problems but now some people think it's gotten toxic and invasive while others think backing away would be betraying our commitment to radical honesty.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community experimenting with total openness is learning that information sharing without boundaries can become its own form of violence.

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