Chapter 69 Uses of gossip news

A true story is that a middle school boy found out that a female classmate in his class had a crush on another male classmate, so he posted the news in the QQ group of the class. In an instant, he became the person who attracted the attention of the whole class. Coaxing him to release new news, he strictly followed the gossip news process, asking the girl about her ups and downs every day, encouraging her to confess her love boldly, and at the same time continuously broadcasting the process in the group, thus becoming the favorite of his classmates. well-informed people.Later, when the girl's courtship was rejected, she impulsively expressed that she wanted to commit suicide, so he and his classmates kept urging, encouraging, and instigating her to commit suicide by taking poison. A sense of accomplishment, and an unprecedented sense of belonging to the class.

"Gossip Girl," adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by American writer Cecily, tells a similar story. In a private school in a rich area of ​​New York, a mysterious person named gossipgirl created a blog. , specializing in publishing all kinds of gossip news in the school, including love affairs, fights, drug and alcohol abuse among students, and passing the news in time through mobile phone text messages, such as "the informant photographed Serena buying a pregnancy test stick in the store".The blog provided buzz throughout the school, brought many together, and changed some lives—it even sparked romances between several young men and women.

Under such circumstances, only by putting on gossip topics for yourself can you become the center of everyone's attention. In "The Gossip Project", the little girl Oliver is studying in a church school, and feels deeply aggrieved by being ignored: "If the boys are all Google Earth, even if I dress up as tall as a ten-story building, they will not notice me." She brazenly announced that she had "lost her virginity", and became famous in one fell swoop. It happened that Hawthorne's novel was mentioned in the school curriculum, and she had a new idea, and she simply wrote a bright red "A" on her chest. People were envious of her, and asked her for a way to become famous. In fact, this way was nothing more than trying to make herself worthy of being talked about.

Because gossip news means a lot to us. In 1998, anthropologist Robin Dunbar pointed out that humans, like other primates, develop social connections through certain behaviors. Other primates bond by grooming each other, catching Lice, and the human way is to talk, we have to chat with some people constantly, use chat to deepen the connection, and the content of chat, most of the time, is gossip news.Thus, a standard of human value emerged: only the value being talked about has value. The values ​​in "Gossip Girl" and "Gossip Project" are basically the same. Gossip news forms the main body of our daily conversations, is the source of team cohesion, and even affects our way of life. In "Six People" or other American dramas with the theme of daily life, those dialogues that are as precious as ink are usually mixed with various gossips. Paris Hilton is mentioned repeatedly, and in "Crime Scene", it is mentioned that a certain SM When it comes to the Queen, it has to be added: "She is the Oprah Winfrey of some kind" - the person who sits in the top spot.

However, it is generally believed that most of those who are keen on gossip are women, so "Gossip Girl" chose a female identity as the disseminator of gossip, but a recent global survey conducted by the British international research institution onepoll through the Internet shows, " Men spend an average of 76 minutes a day chatting with friends or colleagues, compared to 52 minutes for women," with topics ranging from drunk friends to attractive female colleagues to sexual relations, among other topics.What's more, most of the men's small talk happens in the office, with one-third of the men saying that they are happiest when they chat with colleagues, and 58% of the men surveyed said that "participating in 'gossip' makes them feel like they are 'part of the organization'" , and even, 31% of men said, "chatting with your partner actually feels better than having sex."

In any case, gossip topics are the first step when we start communicating with others. In February 2008, during the period when the work of the master photographer Edison Chen was leaked, we were traveling in Gulangyu Island. When we sat in the cafes on the island, we witnessed how the people in the cafes chatted and entered a state of carnival: "I already have one hundred copies", "I have four hundred", "I heard that the full set is more than one thousand?", "Do you have it? This is my MSN".