Yes, it is completely. Just as its possible to over use any first person pronoun. "Me, Mine, My...etc."
Overuse of the word I in the first person can really pull a writer from being sucked into the story and leave them more with the feeling that they are listening to a bar buddy tell them how their day was then being in a story. One must remember that even if you are writing the story from the FPOV, you are still writing a story.
The main character doesn't have to tell us everything from their mind and its perfectly okay and encouraged to write details more from an outside view. When describing an area that the character has stepped into, don't describe it from their eyes with things such as "I saw a large chair in the right corner, and next to I could hardly make out the shape of a table. When I took a few steps into the room I realized how cold it was in their and the cobwebs kept falling and clinging to my face." Instead write as though a group of people are seeing this room for the first time, leaving the character's voice out of it:
"There was a large cushioned chair pushed back into the far corner of the room, as though the owner wanted to see all that passed through it. Beside it was a dark blur that was hard to make out under the layers of dust that decades had coated it with, but it seemed to be shaped oddly like some sort of table. Maybe it was a night stand. Farther into the room, a cold draft was felt sweeping through, like a gale wind had been trapped in here for years and was roaring out its last breathes, bringing goosebumps prickling up on the flesh. Age was the most apparent feature in this place, as long strings of cobwebs branched down from the ceilings, reaching for human bodies and clinging to flesh like old and withered curtains."
One must remember that when writing in the First Person, though this character is telling the story, they shouldn't be aware that they are telling the story. (Though this is not always true such as in the cases that the story is written in first person past view. IE: a story being told about a past event, or a confession of some sort. A good example of this is Stephen King's "1928" wink . That aside, because the teller is not aware they are telling, they wouldn't be lacing the narrative with self pronouns. When a person is looking at something, describing it to themselves, they aren't saying "I see the cat." They known that they are seeing it, they don't need to remind themselves of the fact. It would be more like "There is a cat."
That being said, the over use of pronouns in any form, be it first person, second person, or third person point of view is frowned on outside of dialogue. Narrative is supposed to be about the telling of the story, the description. It's fine to use them as, yes, they are needed. But do not make them a crutch for forming sentences. Too many pronouns can distract a reader from the story and the description going on and separate them from the character as they will no longer feel they are seeing things through their eyes but be reminded that that are simply reading words on a page.
Hope this helps.
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