My conversations would probably be alot more boring then they already are. I don't necessarily repeat all the bad things i hear, but when i hear someone say, "do you know what so and so did," i'm all ears. I think that people relay gossip because they want to have some entertainment added to their lives. They also like the feeling of knowing that they know something that somebody else doesn't, and so they brag a little bit, and then they relay the rumor that they hear.