I heard a rumour

Over dinner, one of my friends was inducing me to share the office grapevine with him. Which was what inspired me to include this episode as my blog for the day.

Allow me to start by mounting up my knowledge on today's topic, Communication first.

So I did a a little Google search... and the history of communication dates back to the earliest signs of life, according to Wikipedia site*:

- Communication can range from very subtle processes of exchange, to full conversations and mass communication.
- Human communication was revolutionized with speech about 200,000 years ago.
- Symbols were developed about 30,000 years ago, and writing about 7,000.
- On a much shorter scale, there have been major developments in the field telecommunication in the past few centuries.

On a micro level of communication in our societies today, communities frequently engage in information exchange mainly involving people. This is what we term as "gossip". Basically, it consists of casual or idle talk of any sort, sometimes (but not necessarily) libelous and/or devoted to discussing others.

Being one of the ancient and (still) the most common ways of dispersing and sharing facts and opinions, gossip is likely to be erroneous and introduce other differences into the information during dispersion of information. The word itself also suggests that such news disseminated habitually are of personal or trivial by nature.

Some people commonly comprehend gossip as meaning the spreading of rumor and misinformation, as (for example) through excited discussion of scandals. In the political arena, one president was alleged to have an affair, one common tactic deployed by the opposition party to undermine the politics leader's credibility and reputation. Some newspapers also feature "gossip columns" which entail the social and personal lives of celebrities or of élite members of certain communities.

Your tittle-tattle, please.

*Here’s the link to the full information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_communication