~~July 9, 2014~~

I thought I was leading a peaceful, calm and tranquil life. I had my family life and had a social life. Both were equally satisfying and fulfilling.

It looks and feels like a tornado swept across my side of town.

The sweet, satisfying social life has gone to hell in a handbasket.

You wouldn’t believe the amount of drama that has suddenly appeared in my vicinity.

I always thought that I was a good judge of character. It seems that I’ve made a few mistakes in allowing some into my inner circle.

In all my years of “experience“, I had never met and dealt with some of the specimens that I’ve recently come across. It’s been a lesson learned. I’m learning to refine my detection of those energies that can sweep in, take over and destroy.

I say a lesson learned because this has taught me who the real friends are.

I agree with the above statement. The internet is an awesome technological advance. One of the tools is social media.

Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially about personal or private affairs of others.

Gossip has been researched in terms of its evolutionary psychology origins. This has found gossip to be an important means by which people can monitor cooperative reputations and so maintain widespread indirect reciprocity. Indirect reciprocity is defined here as “I help you and somebody else helps me.” Gossip has also been identified by Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary biologist, as aiding social bonding in large groups.

With the advent of the internet gossip is now widespread on an instant basis, from one place in the world to another what used to take a long time to filter through is now instant. Very easily this can become a gauge for others to evaluate what is going on in people’s lives.

The term is sometimes used to specifically refer to the spreading of dirt and misinformation, as (for example) through excited discussion of scandals. Some newspapers carry “gossip columns” which detail the social and personal lives of celebrities or of élite members of certain communities.