Did You Hear...

I think rumors and the greatest, and the worst, things in teenagers lives today (including mine). I might as well start out with pointing out the cons of rumors. In high school, rumor starting and smack-talking is a common activity for most students. Whether they know it or not, every kid in their high school career have, or will, talk bad about someone behind their back. It's just bound to happen.

At my school, rumors fly around every day as if this is Hollywood or something. I'm pretty sure I hear something bad about someone at least once a day. Every day. Most of the time the rumors about people who aren't necessarily your friends, just more of aquaintences (sp? damn i don't know how to spell). I think the gossip is even juicier if it isn't about your friend, because you don't really mind spreading the rumor or talking about them as much as if it was your best friend people were talking about.

I'll probably sound like a terrible person for saying this, but I think gossip and rumors are fun. I'm not the type of person who starts rumors, no not at all, but I do like to hear them, and talk to people about it who already know about it. I have a few friends who I can trust won't tell anyone, but then again I have a couple friends who would tell a secret in a heartbeat. I know I can trust my few friends when I hear gossip about people, and what we say never leaves our little group. Not gonna lie, we are probably somehow contributing to the gossip spreading the administration is trying to put a stop to, but everyone does it!

I know, just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right. No, I wouldn't jump off a bridge if everyone else did it.

I think the most smack-talking is my group is done when we are at one of our houses, alone. We don't start rumors, we only talk bad about bad people. To elaborate on that, we only say things that are true about people, which are bad mostly. If Stacie* slept with 14 guys, we talk about it because it's a true fact, we aren't just randomly making that up just because we don't like Stacie. So in our minds, we aren't really doing anything harmful, just stating the truth.

*not real name of friend