WoW Life Lesson #13: Gossip Is A Waste Of Time

“So I was listening to guild chat yesterday and you’ll never guess what NoobLizard said. He was gettin all bent out of shape ‘cuz Starfirezz said he sucked at holding aggro on Nightbane and that Starfirezz should be /gkicked for being disrespectful toward an officer but then Woodhealz said NoodLizard didn’t know what the hell he was talking about ‘cuz Starfirezz never said that and that Nooblizard was just didn’t like Starfirezz because Starfirezz got that won that roll for that drop off Curator. Of course NoobLizard got pissed and /gquit but then Darklight invited him back after she promised that he could lead group A for Kara runs instead of group C with Starfirezz, but then Starfirezz logged in and heard the gchat and told Darklight that letting Nooblizard back in was bullshit and that NoobLizard should be booted for being an ass and pulling a powertrip tantrum and then Darklight said that… ”

Or something like that right?

How many times have you popped on in gchat or vent and heard this sort of BS? Really. Is it worth the aggravation? Is it worth the time? No. Was it worth your time to read that paragraph above if that was the only thing on this post? Nope. Probably not.

Gossip is a big waste of time. All I ever need to know is when’s the raid, who is going and what gear I need to bring.

Other than that, the gossip is just unnecessary.

Oh sure some people will say that they are just telling the story of what happened and why and all that stuff, but the real story here is that the person telling gossip is not telling the gossip for information sake. Usually the person gossiping just wants to be the center of attention.

You know it’s the same in RL, gossip is a time waster, gets nothing accomplished except misinformation and is usually spread by someone who needs attention more than they need to maintain any sort of journalistic integrity.

Besides, those who gossip rarely know the real facts and rarely keep their biases out of the story.

So that’s what’s what about gossip.

But… what did you hear? lol