It has come to my attention that I’m kind of a busybody. I guess this stems from having a really good friend who makes really epic mistakes in his life, and being kind of obsessed about knowing if he’s getting screwed over in the present and if there’s anything I can do to help. But really he’s his own person, a grown adult and can solve his problems himself.
…this gets me in trouble at times.
Anybody else nosy? I also have a job that has co-workers inspired from soap operas from all the stupid drama they make for themselves, and a work buddy who is like our version of TMZ in regards to who-did-who last week.
I suppose it depends on whether we’re defining nosy as “curious” or “interfering”. I love to know what’s going on, but I very seldom feel the urge to share the info, let alone to do anything about it.
Usually for me, its something like, “My friend recently let a friend of a friend move in with them. He let this person stay for free because they’re down on their luck. Recently things in his apartment have gone missing and shady people have been coming and going. I’m the only one who thinks inviting this person to live with him was a mistake”
and I’ll tell the story to someone not remotely connected to my friend, to get an objective answer. Sometimes just to feel like I’m not going completely crazy for being the only one with a common sense attitude about things.
I realize if I need to know, I’ll be told. I get TMI sometimes from folks, and I’ll be happy to share what’s going on in my life, but I’m not one to go snuffling out juicy tidbits of gossip.
I’m pretty nosy. I like to know what’s going on in people’s lives. Which means I’m a bit of a gossip as well, since I like to talk about interesting stuff I know. Ironically, I’m also an excellent secret keeper, but only if it’s something I know is Secret. Minor everyday stuff is fair game, IMO.
I’m pretty nosy, but I try to stiffle the urge to find out what’s going on. Knowing the details of my extended-circle friends’ drama/angst of rarely makes me happier. My close friends, I’ll ask if I think I can help.
Not nosy at all. Your business is your business, and mine is mine. (And I don’t particularly care about your business.)
I also tend to give people the benefit of the doubt without judging them based on a reputation or what I’ve “heard.” There’s an awful lot of folks who talk a lot of crap about others for no good reason.
I’m not nosy at all. I don’t want to hear most of the shit people tell me and I don’t care about most of it either. I don’t like people who gossip and I guarantee you that if they’re telling you something about somebody else, they’re telling somebody else something about you.
I have more fun figuring things out on my own–by observation, searching on the internet, etc.–than having people tell me things outright. Funny though how if I get something in my mind I’m curious about (sort of an “I wonder if/or what’s going on with a certain person”) only a short time goes by before the person involved TELLS me. Kind of crazy.
In general though, I really don’t care enough to care…