Gossip

@rmuxagirl (7548)
United States
October 5, 2006 8:41pm CST
I've seen a couple discussions about secrets so here's a different one. Do you gossip? Do you like talk to other friends about you're friends....ask them about others w/o their knowing?
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@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
6 Oct 06
No, I don't like to gossip, participate in gossip, or hear gossip. Gossip is like taking a feather pillow and cutting it open in a windstorm. It travels fast, wide and far, and you can never get it back when it's been released. Gossip helps no one, but it almost always hurts the one who is being gossiped about! If you gossip about your friend, then you really aren't their friend, at least that's how I see it.
@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
6 Oct 06
I totally agree. Some people just don't get it ya know. I know a girl who will go to as many people as possible to find out "the good stuff" instead of the people involved.
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• India
14 Oct 06
no gossip
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@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
15 Oct 06
do people try to gossip to you about friends or family even? How would you deal with someone trying to
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• India
15 Oct 06
someone tried but i didn't mind it
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• United States
9 Nov 06
Honestly, i hate it when ppl do that to me and i see it way too often .. so i always try to make a concious effort to speak of others, when they are not around, in a manner as if they were around. Does that make sense? In other words, if i am telling you about someone else, i have already told that person how i feel.
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• United States
22 Nov 06
why doesnt anyone respond to me when i post in their questions. its rude. i always get back to everyone on an individual level when they post to my questions it s just not fair.
@whitish (1406)
• India
15 Oct 06
i hnever gossip
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@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
15 Oct 06
How do you deal with people who do gossis? DO you just tell them to stop?
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@missybal (4490)
• United States
28 Oct 06
Sort of but not really negative like. Right now I ask my best friend about all our old friends from school she keeps up with who gets married and has kids and that. I don't really call it gossip except when we talk about ex-boyfriends and how with what they are today that we are so glad we weren't with them.
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@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
30 Oct 06
Well I found in the bible that gossip is related to false witnessing and what not so I think finding out about other friends isn't too bad.
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@meeoww (1174)
• United States
6 Nov 06
No. I used to have alot of friends that didn't like each other (I get along with pretty much anyone) so I really didn't care what they were saying. I prefer to gossip about people that we mutually dislike. It's much more fun. Aloha!
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@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
6 Nov 06
lol. That works. I get one girl trying to get gossip from me about my best friend and go to her about me as if we would tell her stuff.
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
6 Nov 06
GOSSIP, WOMEN LOVES TO GOSSIP IT DOENS'NT MATTER WHO THEY ARE THAT'S OUR NATURE!
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@kokopelli (4842)
• United States
5 Nov 06
nope, not productive, not right.
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@gunawan6 (85)
• Indonesia
6 Nov 06
cartoon - nice cartoon
I don't like gossip. and I don't like talk other friends about my friend. It's washing time
@ladysun (635)
• United States
23 Nov 06
No I do not gossip and if others I am around start it, I politely make myself scarce from the conversation. My husband and I are Shawnee and traditionally, pokvano, or malicious gossip, is the only crime worthy of capital punishment...the reasoning being that with a weapon you can kill a man but with a wicked tongue you kill that same man a thousand times over. It is deemed cruel and without mercy.
• United States
9 Nov 06
I hate gossip, it just causes trouble for everyone involved and never benefits anyone in the end.
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@badkat83 (1620)
• United States
21 Nov 06
when i was young i used to gossip, but it always got me in trouble. now my lips are sealed.
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@lbinkley (1075)
• United States
9 Nov 06
I don't say anything to anybody that I wouldn't say to the person I am talking about if they were sitting right in front of me. Chances are if I am upset, the person already knows it and I am just venting. I am a blunt person, so I will say it the person before anyone else.
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• United States
9 Nov 06
I do not gossip. I think it is very hurtful and wrong. The only time I will talk about someone behind their back is if I am trying to help them somehow by finding out more about the situation-that kind of thing. I don't think that is gossiping though. If someone comes gossiping about someone to me I try to end the conversation or turn it around into saying only positive things about that person. It doesn't always work but it is worth trying.
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@moneymind (10510)
• Philippines
23 Nov 06
naaa... i do not do that, i actually do not like talking about personal things, myself or others. greetings. : )
@moneymind (10510)
• Philippines
23 Nov 06
naaa... i do not do that, i actually do not like talking about personal things, myself or others. greetings. : )
@caribe (2465)
• United States
21 Nov 06
JoyfulOne said it so well. Gossip is so very hurtful so I don't think anyone should ever do it.