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Advantages of gossiping

Now I know that gossip is looked upon as an evil thing even though most people succumb to it. There has to be a reason why. When I started digging for the truth I actually found several advantages of gossiping.

Several of these have already been mentioned in my previous article on why people gossip. Here are some of the advantages that I have come across:

A person who can gossip effectively and with different type of people is often well liked and accepted. There is always someone to talk about (although such a person is also talked about behind their back but that’s besides the point).
Such a person can always carry conversations with anyone
By gossiping effectively, you can find out secrets about other people
There is no smoke without fire. If you were to listen to the gossip, even after throwing out much of the emotion of the person gossiping, you can actually learn something about the topic, whether it be another, office politics, promotions, or demotions and so on
As gossip is often used by weak people it can actually be harmless as long as it stays between a few friends of the weak. For example, a person is brutally ridiculed and talked down to in a gathering by another stronger, perhaps arrogant person. Now the victim may go out and bad mouth the stronger person to his friends and often that is enough to ease the anger and hurt. If such was not the case, if the victim actually feeling hurt held onto this humiliation and had not shared it with anyone, he could literally blow up as seen sometimes. It is much better not to hold onto these negative feelings as they do much more harm to you than the person who inflicted them in the first place
Our understanding of the world and people in it is sometimes enhanced by gossip
Like mentioned before, Gossip sells. There are actually hundreds of thousands of people employed around the world to gather gossip for magazines and newspapers. There is a whole market out there that is willing to pay a fair price for good gossip or rumour. What if gossiping was totally eliminated? Imagine how many people would lose their jobs?!
People who are good at gossiping are often very creative people. They do not just talk about other people, they actually turn their gossip into a very entertaining story. For such people, gossiping is the only place where they actually are able to employ their creative selves
You can tell a lot about a person by listening to him for a short while. If the person talks about someone else, you can be pretty sure he will talk about you as soon as you turn around. At least this is one good way to keep track of what to say and to whom
This is the only thing that is universal across all cultures. You can go anywhere and as long as you can gossip effectively and carefully, you will find friends

Well, there you have it. It just makes me want to gossip now!

This is part three of the series on gossiping:

Gossip: Can’t live with it and can’t live without it
Why do people gossip?
Advantages of gossiping
Downside of gossiping
Are you a tattler, a busybody, a gossiper?

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