Telephone / Gossip Game

Telephone / Gossip Game

When I was in grade school it rained one day and we couldn't go out for recess so our teacher had us play telephone.

She wrote a little message down on a piece of paper and showed it to the first kid in the row. They turned around and whispered it to the next kid until it got to the last kid.

They stood up and repeated the message out loud and it was completely perverted. This is how gossip works but it does not take place in a matter of minutes (like the class room example). It might be days.. weeks... months and then the gossiper repeats the version as they remember it.

1 The person being gossiped about can not defend themselves because the gossipers only talk behind their backs.

2 They repeat hearsay information from others who give them their version of the hearsay story.

3 If it is leaked out and they are confronted they deny they know what you are talking about.

4 If you do convince one of them it is false, that does not stop it because gossip is like cancer. Once it starts it is spread from one gossiper to another and there is no way to track where it has spread.

5 Like a lynch mob, the charged is found guilty with out being to have their defense heard.

6 Gossip is so powerful because people instantly believe the worst in people they know nothing about.

7 If the gossiper finds they were in error they don't track down those they spread the lies to. It is not as fun as nailing someone and they are embarrassed to admit they had spread maliouscous lies.

I hoped it would pass but it continues to mutate and spread.

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