I can't stop talking shit

Dear lupinion,
A close friend of mine is concerned that I share her personal life details with my other close friends. Is this considered malicious gossip if the intent was only to talk out my feelings about the situation? Our friendship is in your hands!
Sincerely,
Anonymous

Dear Anonymous,

In today's world, we should all expect to be gossipped about. These are no longer the olden times (called olden because they happened long ago). These are now the youngen times and in the youngen times we all must talk as much as we can to other humans, even if it's damaging to other humans, different than the first ones. Has your friend not heard about dehumanization by technology?? We are in great peril because of the world wide web and the wii and the cell phone, because people don't want to talk to each other directly, that is to say with sound.

Therefore, it is good of you to work at keeping those lines of communication open, and if all you have to talk about is your friends and their personal lives, well then, that's your problem, isn't it? It has nothing to do with your friend that you and your other friends can't think of anything else to talk about. Or maybe you've run out of things to say. Who knows. The point is, your friend should understand that if she shares something with you, she might as well be sharing it with your other friends, even the ones that she loves to gossip with you about.

If anything, your friend should be more worried about the strangers with whom your friends themselves have shared the gossip! She should think about all the other people out there who now know her personal business and also, about how likely it is that one day, one of them might be her boss, her therapist, or who knows, even her self. That is a much worse prospect and it's probably already happened.

Eh?...