Are you too quiet or too talkative?

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Definitely depends on the situation for me. Almost all of the time I'm way too quiet, but once I begin to acclimate to my social situation I have the propensity to start blabbering away non-stop. It takes me a while to "come out of my shell", so to speak.

For me it depends who I'm with. If I'm close to someone I can be too talkative. If I'm at college I'm usually quiet like a mouse.

Yes to both.

depends. when with my family, way too talkative. when outside of the house in the public, basically mute

Honestly, no one has ever told me I'm too quiet. At least not the people who know me; the people on campus or at my high school on the other hand, would say that I'm way too quiet. I was practically selectively mute around my peers in high school, but they didn't like me anyway (there was a lot of bigotry towards disabled students in general at my high school and especially autistic students).

Selectively mute from ages five years to about 16 years. A few more years with some limited verbalizing. Then, in college, I exploded with verbalizing, and now people tell me to shut up.

I voted for, "It depends on situation". If I am around my parents or a couple friends, I can talk as the day is long. Around people I don't know or currently around many of my co-workers, you get nothing from me.

Overall to me, socializing is taxing.

my folks told me growing up that i talk too much at the wrong times, and talk too little at the wrong times. can't seem to win.

Too quiet/nervous on important stuff to get my needs across.

Too talkative according to my mother when I'm tired.

When I'm tired I wake up and they go to sleep. My mind just wanders and I forget to turn it off. I just waffle every thought that comes to mind and other tired people are doing my pet hate of saying mm.

Also my talkativeness when excited makes it impossible for me to mask.

When I was a kid, I was very talkative. My parents liked to say that I started talking a bit before 2 and hadn't stopped yet. Then, around 11 or 12, my depression "kicked on" and I pretty much stopped talking. They started complaining about that instead.
These days, I could talk for hours to my wife about everything and anything, but she's the only one. Outside of interacting with her and my daughter, I don't really say much. Socializing is difficult, even with them sometimes. There are moments I have to just leave the room because I can't deal with any more talking, either from me or to me. I used to stay and try, even though I couldn't think of anything else to say or process any further information. It never ended well. Now that I've finally figured out what's going on, I don't feel the need to "try" when I know I can't do it, and my wife is fairly understanding about it.