Thursday, May 10, 2012
Rumor has it
Rumors and gossip spread like a wild fire in a forest. One thing leads to another and your'e the only thing people are talking about. Chances are the words that linger around campus aren't even true. In High School ,stories and lies are all sorts of shapes and sizes like the people they are told by. Other ways the stories become the top gossip is by re-winding and "re-newing the words of what really happened." Have you ever played the game telephone? Well spreading rumors is pretty much the exact same game. The game telephone is when you have a huge group of people and one person says something and whispers to the next person and so forth. Most likely the word or phrase you start with will change drastically. Stopping rumors and gossip is merrily impossible and hard not to do.
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This post could not be more true. I love your connection to the game "Telephone." Every time I've played that game the initial word or phrase ends up being something totally different by the time it reaches the end of the chain of people. I think the most important message here is not to believe everything you hear.
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