Gossip Folks

Why is that within your group of friends, people feel the need to keep tabs on your life at all times possible? I don't mean your close best friends, I mean those friends, semi-acquaintances that feel the need to more less just gossip about you. Lately, I have been experiencing this in the third degree, as I have started dating my ex-boyfriend again, and of course this caused an uproar among my friends. Is it because of the new technology like AIM and Facebook that just forces us and allows us to be extremely stalker-ish? Or is it just that all of us have some kind of creepy voyeuristic tendencies inside of us? I think it is definitely a mix of both. For one, I can't name to many college students who wouldn't consider themselves a "facebook stalker," and I think this ability to keep tabs on everyone you've ever known, makes any one's gossip tendencies to come out. So I suppose in this day and age, it is very important to watch your back.