Why do many people seem to enjoy and be very satisfied with gossip and people who gossip?

[☯Tao☯]

is gossip one of the biggest problems in work places, schools too? (even the managers and teachers "indulging" in it? ((why say "indulging " too? what this means?)) why and how for that?)

which kinds of things people gossip about and why? how differs between men and women? and how they cause problems for WHICH kinds of people usually ad why?

please explain what you can too...how gossip is satisfactory to people and how tv, and movies also feed this desire for a gossiping mind?

thanks for your answers!

[Antony]

Gossipping about other people really shows how small someone can be. Really hate it how they make someones personal life their own business

[David]

well first off to indulge is to enjoy or to take part in an act or action of personal affiliation.People gossip for many reasons. One is that they are in-secure or feel in-adequate about themselves. Another is because usually there is a leader of gossip and the others want to fit in in the making fun and or opinionating others. Gossiping has been around since the dawn of man and can even be defined as a social i'm going to say a social pool, in other words they each share opinions on what they see and feel about someone or something. As to a preference to a particular group or race depends on the upbringing of the person(s) and their common opinion.

[Horsense]

Gossip is usually very unloving & selfish.
Why are you so interested in its details?

"How Can I Stop the Gossip?"
- High-Tech Gossip
- Is there such a thing as 'Good Gossip'?
- Steer Conversations Carefully!
- When You Are the Victim
- Your Best Defense
- Things to Think About:
- - How can you keep from spreading gossip?;
- - How will you respond if someone gossips about you?
http://watchtower.org/e/200708a/article_01.htm

[K]

Gossiping is a part of life. With all the people in this world, people are going to be interested in what's going on with other people. For some, it might be a way to escape their own problems by getting into other people's business. And for others it's just mean-spirited.

[L Moore]

The main reason that people gossip is because it helps form social networks and friendships are attained and maintained by people who share interests and talk about those interests with each other.
People like people who are like themselves and are more likely to form friendships with people who share the same interests as they do.
People being very vain also like people that agree with them. Because this agreement takes place when people are gossiping they tend to do it again and again because they can share thoughts and ideas that are reciprocated by someone else.

Gossiping differs between men and women because of evolution.
Evolution dictates that women generally have been the people who search for a mate with resources. So gossiping for women is about who has what, whom is with whom and what so and so has been up to.
All methods of acquiring information for survival which nowadays is simply finding out this information because people like to know what is going on around them.

Men dont tend to gossip in the same way as women but will gossip mainly for the same reasons but this is done in different ways.

Gossping will only become a problem when it distracts you in the workplace or school from something you are supposed to be doing.
Otherwise like i said it attains and maintains friendships and socialisation