i am sorry if i don't like gossiping

I don't like gossiping either Plum.. let me tell you, the tongue can cut someone up worse than a knife. The thing is the people gossiping will act like their victim's best friend when confronted... but behind the back it is just like murder. You can kill someone with the remarks of the tongue. You can kill the spirit with gossip.

No you arent funny Plum,im much the same as you,im not into gossiping.Where I once worked all of the girls gave up on me I think because they thought I just never said anything.It wasnt that im not into chatting,but im just so not into gossip,and if you have nothing good to say about anytone then why saty it at all?I can really see anything in ripping people apart,which in the main is what the gossipers do,they uswed to ask me my opinion and try to rope me into saying what I thought about it,but I just used to avoid it and walk away.where is the pleaure in just being horrible.If they dont want to socialie with you thats there problem,not yours and thats up to them.But I admire you for not gossiping.

I do not have time to gossip nor do I like this as a pasttime. I gain nothing fro this vice and this will just create enemies betweeen friends. i have a neighbor who criticizes me for not making time to be with them and i told them i have so many projects at home aside from the fact that i have a fulltime job. That response irritated them but i do not care because they just gossip.

You are not weird and there is absolutely wrong about what you have done! Like you, I also end up saying, hmmm, ok, really? and a smile but they can't get any word from it to add about the gossip. It is not healthy in any workers relationship plus you also can't trust people, we don't know that it will be pass on to others and a lot of edition will be done! So, keep it up and maybe by that, you are also giving them an idea that they have to mind their own business and start evaluating themselves rather than criticizing other people!

I don't think you are weird. You have values and you stick by them. I think that is a good thing. I don't particularly think of myself as a gossip. I will seek out friends if I am concerned about a family or friend and aren't sure how to approach the situation. It isn't to tear them down, but to be able to help. I can't say I never gossip. I have plenty of issues I need to work on so I really can't fault others over trivial things.
Anyhow, I don't think this is a weakness, I think it's a strong suit for you.
And weird, all of us are weird.

No, I don't like hearing that sort of thing either, although if it is about the boss, and if it is true, then sometimes we need to know things. I don't go around with my head in the sand, but neither do I enjoy conversations where the goal is just to put other people down and pretend to be outraged by their behavior. "Fitting in" is often highly over-rated.

yoz. everyone has a different way to communicate and to make friends. gossiping is just a common way to start out when you are new to a area. you don't really have to start with gossiping about celeb or what ever. maybe you can just start with a very common topic like what's the latest hit song in the market or what. i believe most of us will know ir around the common age grp will roughly know and will have something to comment about it.
you are not a werid person. i should put it as you are more towards the introvert side of a kind. when you are out with friends try to me more extrovert and just join in the fun.

Oh no! You are the kind of person I would want as a friend. What some of these people don't realize when they are listening to all that gossiping and joining in is that as soon as their back is turned the same people will gossip about them, lol. I don't like gossip either. I will admit though that I have been sucked in by it before. I feel much better if I just pay it no attention and go on my merry way.

I will tell you something now, one of the many reasons that I do not have friends in this town where I live is because I would not be a gossiper like them. I swear right, you would go round for a coffee with them and they would be all nice and friendly and then as soon as one of them left and went home, the knives would come out and they would tear each other to pieces and these people were supposed to be best friends.

Even I was on the end of it sometimes and I thought " this is not for me, I do not want to be a part of this" and so I would not join in and so that is one of the reasons I am friendless. No, I do not think you are weird at all, if you are then so am I.

No I do not think you are unsociable just because you do
not like gossiping. a lot of people do not like it
myself included. I hate to listen to people tearing
someone down or belittlingsomeone and will oftenjust
walk away if they cannot talk about something else.
Why tattle and spread crap about people? I would not
like to know others talk about me behind my bank and
I do not do so behind others backs either. I live
by the golden rule do unto others as you would have
them do unto you.