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Marisela, Venezuela
Well, all of us have ever gossiped. Personally, I make the effort to be a discreet person, I don't like gossiping, and I don't like listening to it either. That's because gossiping is very harmful not only to the gossipy but also to the person we're gossiping about. Many gossips are exaggerations or a mixture of lies and half-truths. Others do that because, probably, they're envious or jealous of the person they're gossiping about or they, perhaps, want to harm someone's reputation and thus get even with the person who is being gossiping about. On the other hand, NO, I don't waste my time reading gossip columns, so actually whatever does my favorite start is not my business.

Mate, Isle
I,m not very gossipy and in general I don,t like gossiping about other people but I think that gossip is a good part of our daily informal conversations so it belongs to the daily life and furthermore it,s a very popular means for the press to attract consumers and to gain a good deal of money herewith. Some talkative people are literally addicted to it and their daily freindly talks only consist of gossiping about other persons in a disrespectful way which is not amazing indeed. This kind of gossip can be very upsetting and cheerles and should be left out of course. But when one takes a magazine or the sunday edition of a daily paper in the hand there are a lot of celebrity gossips published in them and reported in a very appealing manner that one can not just fly over them and don,t get curious about this and that.

Kim, South Korea
Maybe gossip is something wrong. Because people gossip behind the person concerned. It means the people who gossip may well tell about a complaint or something to hate.But some situation, habitual topics can become a subject of conversation. So it makes feel sympathy in the party together.In my case, I often gossip some people that anybody hate.(one of people around me) Surely it's wrong. Anyway when I am with my friends, it can become a subject of something to talk.In the articles's about celebrity case, articles may be writed distorted. So I don't say about that. It can become a subject of conversation. But it isn't sure, So we are careful about that.

Charly, Philippines
Absolutely I do hear and talk about people's stories, happenings and life. I think it runs to every Filipino blood but I am not sure with other nationalities. Although I don't do gossip a lot,in my own opinion stories from the grape vine is definitely dangerous to both gossiper and the one who is being talk about. This can ruin life because this could be a start of war to both parties. Cliche as it may sound but they say that there will always be gossiper around us and people seldom see the good ones but are quick to point out the negative ones. So, the best thing we can do is focus on your own life and not invading to others' private lives. I rarely read magazines about famous actors or singers and I don't give a damn about them. The only thing that makes me interested is when somebody start telling stories about them and that's the time I will listen.

Tina, Cambodia
That's a big deal at my workplace,because all of my colleagues are women so they like to talk everythings which concerning to other people life.and of course, I try not listen.gossiping is harmful.but sometimes, it's so interesting to know!

Lore, Belgium
In my opinion, gossip is part of life, of being human. I try to avoid it, but sometimes it can feel good, it can help to relax about something that has happened. Gossip can help us dealing with our emotions. As long as you realise what you're doing, I don't believe it's that harmful.What gossip magazines concerns, I'm absolutely not interested in that!

Cherry, Taiwan
Everybody hated gossiping. but,anytime,anywhere, you can listen to gossip. anyway,I think that gossip stop wise. How do you think?

Elena, Italy
I don't like gossip. I think it often very needless. I like read some book ordaily paper,but i like the conversation with my friends about our family or some film or novel.

Son, Vietnam
i think gossip is harmless because you can have some news from it.the important is what does you use news for.right

Rosa, Brazil
i don't make gossiping, but always heard gossiping. i think gossip is harmful.

Gloria, Taiwan
I really like to listen to gossip from my friends or colleagues. I think it's the source of my energy every single day. Sometimes I feel stressful and unhappy when I work, the only way that can relax me is listening other's gossip.But don't worry, I only just listen, I never tell tales out of school. I just need it to relieve my boring life.

Maria, Russia
I try to never gossip, but sometimes, when I share with my friends or my mum, I tell about somebody something I don't really have to tell. It's kind of gossip, isn't it? Of course, I try to avoid listening gossip if I can, but in most of the cases it's impossible. In my opinion, any kind of gossiping is harmful, I'm sure of it.

Alexandra, Russia
Sometimes I gossip and listen to gossip. But I don't start doing it myself. I don't think that gossip is harmful, sometimes yes, but I can't imagine our lives without gossip, because it is everywhere. Sometimes I read gossip magazines, but it is not very often. I like to know what my favorite stars are up to, because it's interesting.

Maica, Spain
I am sometimes obliged to listen to gossip but I do not like it. I think it can be really harmful. It is better to check yourself what really happens or how persons really are and behave than trusting on other's comments not being impartial. I do read gossip magazines to know about celebrities but I can leave without them.

Yangbae Lee, Seoul, Korea
I don't like gossiping. I think gossip is harmful. Apart from celebrities who want to be talked about, there's a lot of harm that can be done by gossip. Even when no harm's intended, the problem with gossip is what starts as 'harmless' can sometimes develop into the harmful type. Like 'Chinese whispers' the gossip can alter in form as it moves outward from the initial gossips. By the time it's moved to another group of people it might've morphed into something negative and hurtful. Gossip is also harmful because untruths and half-truths are told as if true. It doesn't give the person a choice about whether or not they want to be discussed, it can spin out of control, and can create an atmosphere of cliques particularly in the office, and this facilitates bullying.

Armel Suplisson, France
I suppose I don't gossip and I think gossip is rather harmful but somebody may happen to gossip without intending to do so. In France we have a lot of cel. gossip magazines and I find them stupid and intended for stupid persons. I have more interesting things to do." J'ai d'autres chiens 膫聽 fouetter"

Semhar, Italy
gossips are funny, but If you start to have a opinion about something or someone that is just based on it, I think you are going to be wrong!

Nguyen Luan, Vietnam
I think gossip is both harmless and harmful. Why? Because when you have a trouble in your work with your colleagues or your boss, you can relax by talking to someone. But you should have tell the truth, after that you can recieve their sympathy or their advices that makes you loss the pressure. It's harmful when you tell the untrue about the other people that affects them.

Finix, Vietnam
I think gossiping is good when people talk about the good things in life. And the story may be useful for someone to broaden their horizon or enrich their knowledge about things happening around them. However it isn't good at all when people working and gossiping at the same time or when they spend too much time on it. IT is a waste of time as there are many other things that are more interesting and helpful.

Lara, Italy
I'm not really interest in what celebrities are up to, I rather prefer to gossip about people I know in real life ;) I think it can be a good way of relaxing and of having fun with friends, as long as it causes no harm to anyone. Talking about dresses, relationships, sexual taste and so on is ok, running down people or talking behind their back about serious issues such as diseases is wrong

Theu Sunny, Vietnam
Almost everyone think gossip isn't a good thing to do. But in my mind, it's quite useful when you do it to relax. Talking to your friends about everything you like can help you relax after a hard day. However, it's not good to tell false things. You can be in trouble. Your friends will think that you're a talkative and impolite person and don't trust you any more. It's quite harmful. So just gossip for relax ok?

K Nguyen, Vietnam
It's seems to me that gossip is a very normal thing among people, especially for girls. Sometimes we dont't realize that we are gossipping but actually we do it everyday. Gossip may be very effective way to relax. When talking about other people with friends you can temporarily forget about your own problems, which is really beneficial. However, if someone use gossip to tell untrue things about others, it will be very harmful and even dangerous.

Ying, China
I like to gossip and listen to gossip. I think that is harmless. It's a good communication way.

Mit, Vietnam
I think you can find gossips exist around us. when you read it, don't believe all of these because it isn't always true. I think gossip is a bit harmful. It takes time and from time to time, it can give some people the push if you aren't carefully.

Ernesto, Chile
I don't like to speak behind the backs of other persons, but I would be lying if I said I don't listen to gossip.When you are for a long period in an office, is almost imposible don't do it.More over, frequently gossip has some truth between a lot of exaggerated information, and that data could be often useful for you, if you know how to do a right interpretation.

H, New York City, USA
I don't like the gossip, but Life is full of gossip.

jean Marie, France
Gossiping is one of our favourite games with my friends. I think that gossiping is harmless when it is to maintain some sort of irony about everyone and even for yourself. In big companies, pretented constructiv critics lead often to lamentable gossips, indeed it is lost of time but without dangers because generally unfounded. Too much gossip is less harmfull than a small venomous false information that can grow up itself among honest and inconscious people and could ruin someone's life. What about the specialised gossip magazines? They are ridiculous in their excess hence harmless. I am not a regular reader but it would be a lie to say that I have not a smile and surely some vicious pleasure reading the infortune of some celebrities.

Vaida, Lithuania
I will be honest i like to listen to gossip, and sometimes myself gossip with my colleagues about athers

Vitoria, Brazil
I won't lie,I like to listen to gossip but I think it's not correct because you can prejudice another one and sometimes a gossip is very harmfulfor example you're talking about a person that your friend is loving and this boy knows that she's loving him,it's so embarassed.But it's nice to know about your idol,if he or she has a boyfriend/girlfriend.So I like gossip about famos people!

Allison, Korea
I can't make poeple not gossip about somebody including me. It can't help, but I can stop the vicious circle by not gossiping others. Hey, my life is too short even for own my business.

Sudha, India
yes i also do gossip.but sometime it may be cause harmful. but we have to take it in +ve way in sometime, its help you to give up your bad thing & learn agood manners.

Bebe, UK
Nowadays,it is very common to gossip in differet societies, sometimes people gossip just for fun, but it is very awful to make fun based on others' misery.But I do like to know what thoes stars are up or not,coz they work for entertainment and earn huge money, it is make sense to be the hot topic for people

Minh, Vietnam
I never gossip. Though I think gossip is funny if you want to joke on someone, your closed friends for instance, but it maybe harmful if you are not telling the truth about someone by gossiping him or her for bad intention. People now pay a lot of attention to celebrity and me too! I absolutely like to know about my favourite stars.

Judy, Spain
Unintentionally I heard one colleague who I often contact in my company that she chatted other coworker on me.I felt unhappy but I knew I should change my own behavior when I work with her to make a good cooperation.

Michael, Russia
I don't like gossiping and listening to gossip because it's stupid. I think gossip is harmless because every person must have their opinion. No, I don't read gossip magazines because it isn't interesting and it violates privacy.

Irishka, Russia
As for me, I don't like gossiping, espesially about people I know. But I'm sure that different magazines always pull out all the stops to find any gossips about stars, because it help them to be readed and popular. And I don't think it's so harmful. A lot of people earn money on it.

Sidar, Turkey
I think the people who are gossiping over neighbours is very harmful...

Dannie, China
Gossiping about someone who is far away from your life,such as a movie star or a famous singer is OK,I think.Because itwould not hurt him or her.But never gossip about your friends or colleagues,because you will hurt them deeply and lose their trust.

Constance Chan, Hong Kong
I hardly listen to gossip. Actually l am the one who tell them not to tell me because I can't keep it, so if someone gossip.I would say"You better not tell me!" l think gossip is quite harmful to friendship,they might friendship, but usually most of them are not real.l always read celebrity gossip magazines, cause l am sort of...nosy person and l was happy to see my favourite stars on the news or magazines,but of course it is something good...

Ling Chia
As a waitress in the bar , I do gossip from time to time with the customers but thats for part of the job. I dont think gossip is hamful if it going in a right way. Life is full of gossip, isnt it?

Hong Kong
I think Jack is gossiping. Yes, I used to gossip but now I don't gossip much. I think it can be. When you listen to some funny gossips and laugh, then forget them. That won't be harmful. But some people always gossip too much. I think it can be harmful. I used to read celebs gossip magazines. Now I am not really interested in their private lives.

Becky, TW
It is not easy to avoid gossip because the society is filled with people's curiosity about others,celebrities especially.I don't think it's good to talk about others. Sometimes the harmless gossip may become seriously harmful after people add their personal guess and imagination to the gossip.

Saeed-Ahvaz, Iran
Frankly speaking, yes!.I do gossip.I think it adds some energy to chats and discussions.Unless political ones, it is harmless!I follow gossip or so called yellow magazines about celebrities.I like it.By the way, they say you'r ending Flatmates by May 15th. Is it true?

Wendy, China
I think gossip is not good somehow, but it's a nature of human beings

Joan, China
I am a listener of gossip and not the maker. I think it is the other way to catch some information informally by gossip. Also it helps to ease the tension working environment during the coffee break, as gossip time. On the other hand, some negative gossip hurt people. Waste time to read celebrity gossip magazines, I think, and it is not good to disturb their private life.

Thienloi, Vietnam
Gossip is harmless. In the noisy society, there are a lot of tales about the famous persons. These are created by media company to get the audience's attention. I often read the magazines that are evaluated as the main information channel of big organization or government . At least , it do not give the gossip.

Margarita, Spain
I think Gossip is something you can麓t avoid in our lifes, about your colleges, family, friends,etc, the important thing is that you don麓t do it in a malicious way. And of course, i read from time to time gossip magazines. And gossip is what they are made of.

Michal, Poland
I think gossip is quite silly, but everyone do that. Of course we should be careful when we are talking about somebody. Sometimes it's good to gossip about ourselves.

Evelyne, France
I never gossip and never listen to gossip . I hate personn gossiping , It's not very polite .I think it's harmless and I don't read celebrity gossip magazine

Jean-Jacques, France
Everyone says: "no, I have never read celebrity gossip magazines in my life", even me! But, to tell you the truth, when I am on holiday, lying on the beach, I'm quite happy to read this kind of magazines, as it's a real way to relax!Gossips keep the interest of a lot of people, especially when it concerns people that you know, like some friends, acquaintance and celebrities. I think that everyone is curious about what happens in its neighbour's life.But, to my mind, there is a real limit concerning gossip magazines: it is the respect of private life, especially concerning children, health problem, .... But the line is really thin: when you are a celebrity, are you always a public person? Do celebrities have to be always on stage, even if they want to live like everyone? In my opinion, Law has a real importance to avoid slander, to help celebrities to protect their private life and especially to protect their lifes from paparazzi. Who has thought about Britney?

Roya, Iran
i think he gossipimg and i listen to gossip sometmes and gossip is harmful surly ,i really interest to read celebrity gossip magazines.

Yassir, France
I try never to gossip because I feel it's a very harmful habit you could fall into. Gossiping never helps things to get better. Its sole purpose is to make people think of themselves they're better than others. It's a very ego thing. One day, a very long time ago, our Prophet, advised people to "Say good things, otherwise remind silent". I think we'd better stick to what he expressed there. Of course, I never read, let alone buy, gossip magazines. What a load of ...!

KC, Cyprus
In my opinion gossip is not something good. A very descriptive definition of gossip is: you like to talk about something for someone you don't like :)Gossip is most of the times harmful as it hurts people and breaks up relationships.

Jorge Martinez, Colombia
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Giulliano, Brazil
I think that gossip is not a good thing. It's really harmful and it causes a bad environment at work. Sometimes one could make up a gossip in order to pull a fast one on a co-worker. In some cases gossip can be a way to push oneself forward.

Shoaib, U.K.
Jack looks honest,is giving impartial information and it's obvious whereever there are two managers it always creates problems.I think that gossip is harmful.It causes so many problems.The person whom you are gossiping with about somebody may gossip about you tomorrow or might be two faced now he's talking to you later on he may go and tell that person whom you were gossiping about oh, he was saying something really about you.

Irenka, Russia
I think Jack is gossiping and I don't find gossip a good thing to do. It's rather harmful. Usually I don't gossip, but from time to time I have to listen to it (at work, for example) because it's a part of our life and there is nothing we can do about it. Sometimes, on my way to work, I read celebrity gossip magazines, but very seldom. I prefer to give my time off to more useful reading like books and special magazines for women.