Gossiping and Talking About Another; What is the Difference?

Even though we are told starting from when we are very young not to gossip, and talking about people behind their backs is bad, we all seem to do it anyways. To all of you people who say that they don't talk about other people, I am sorry to break it to you, but you are just lying.  That could either to be just to yourself to make yourself feel like you are a better person or that could be to someone else to get others to believe you are a better person.  Most likely though, it is actually both of these things. The reason why people talk about others is because they are curious on the information about another person, so you talk about that information with another person.  Even if you are talking bad (or good) about someone, you still are just talking about the information on them.  However, considering no one likes to be talked bad about, modern society has deemed talking about people bad.  Even though everyone says their moral compass points the right way, why is it that where ever I turn I always hear people talking about others? The reason is because despite that what we say about gossiping being bad, our curiosity wins us over and we talk about others with another person to fulfill that desire for the knowledge.  So before you go out again and talk about why talking about other people is bad, remember why they do it and remember that you do it to.  However, I am not saying gossiping is not bad.  Gossiping still does exist and should try to be eliminated as a common thing in our society.  Many people however tend to get gossiping and just talking about another person confused. The best way to eliminate the confusion is to define the two things. When you are just talking bad about someone just to talk bad about someone, this is gossip and you should not be doing it.  If you are talking about another person and you are honestly taking into consideration that the information may not be true, this is not gossip and you should be worried about doing this with another person.