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[novapsyche]

Do you like talking about people?

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[boyvirgil.livejournal.com]

i never used too
always made me a little sick
then i realized it was more the person that i was that made me a little sick
but now i can't get enough

[simianpower.livejournal.com]

Sure, why not? It's what people do. People talk about me all the time, sometimes good and sometimes bad. Some of both gets back to me, but so be it. I got a call last weekend from a drunken friend asking if I'm "still having sex with that girl, because it was the gossip trivia question of the day." It's not so bad being famous. :) If nobody's talking about you, it probably means nobody cares about you enough to spend the time, so I'm glad that people talk about me.

[bloodlikerain.livejournal.com]

yea, i enjoy gossip more than i should

[silversliver.livejournal.com]

I don't generally enjoy talking about others, in terms of gossip. I do it a lot more than I used to, though, since grad school has somehow introduced me to new heights of stupidity (such as a fellow student guessing that my hat with cat ears on it was a duck hat.. she's not here anymore). Still, I keep it to a minimum because I don't like what it says about me, and I also don't want stuff to be flying around the grapevine about me (there is a lot I expect to be going around soon, and it will be very awkward). Moreover, most of the time when people talk to me it's because they know I'm not going to blab. The trust to keep others' confidence is very important to me.

[simianpower.livejournal.com]

The trust to keep others' confidence is very important to me.

That's sort of a different dimension than what I think she's asking about. Talking about people isn't the same as blabbing everyone's secrets. You can keep confidences and still have something to talk about.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Well, you tell me. What does it mean to talk about other people? :)

I tend not to talk about other people, which, as silversliver implies, signals to others that I can keep confidences. If you engage in gossip, that's a sign that you are likely to gossip about the person you're gossipping with at the time.

[droid-1.livejournal.com]

That's one of the t hings I try very hard to not do. Actually, come to think of it, I don't really have to try all that hard, because I just barely talk to people at all.

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[smilypixie.livejournal.com]

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[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Really? I didn't see anything.

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[smilypixie.livejournal.com]

Good. It's gone now. So no worries.

[phoenix-riddle.livejournal.com]

No, and I presume this is in the negative "talking about people" context.

When I feel the need to talk about people, I do my best to make sure it is to that specific person. I've been through too much drama with former friends to participate in this social activity. It's a highly poisonous habit that ebbs away at relationships.

[m0n90053.livejournal.com]

Yeah, whether you mean talking about specific people or something more general.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Specific people.

[brendand.livejournal.com]

Yes. I LOVE IT!

[kittenkissies.livejournal.com]

no

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

Both in the specific and abstractly.