| Jenny | Date: Monday, 02.04.2012, 10:18 | Message # 16 |
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| I suppose that's not a secret that all of us like to gossip. It may seem at first that there's nothing bad in gossips, but the wrong thing about it is that gossips have a very unpleasant quality - to misquote the truth. A harmless news often grows like snowball into false scuttlebutts, which may injure innocent people.
Why people gossip? Maybe because their own life isn't bright and eventful enough? Maybe they have nothing to tell about themselves, idk. But the most disgusting thing is that some people intentionally speak about other people dirty tricks and then communicate with them like everything is all right. Such double-tongued people are dangerous and there are lots of them unfortunatelly.
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| Samsik | Date: Monday, 28.05.2012, 11:28 | Message # 17 |
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| I completely agree with Veronica. 
Now, if gossip is sure to end up hurting someone or several individuals, then, what motivates people to gossip? There are many reasons why people feel compelled to gossip, therefore, humiliating and putting others down. Sometimes people do it out of spite, just because they can. Other times people gossip because they feel they will benefit from its end result, such as possibly looking better in front of the boss in a working situation. But the true, deep rooted reason, and psychological studies have proven it, is the feeling of superiority that results from such vicious spreading of information. The person feels superior not only because he/she feels that they have information to offer that the other person does not have, and we all know that knowledge is power, but also by gossiping about someone else, the gossiper feel as if he/she was a much better person than the subject of the gossip
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