Gossip

Gossip (gos'ap) - n.
-rumor or talk of personal, sensational, or intimate nature
-a person who habitually spreads intimate or private rumors or facts
-TRIVIAL, CHATTY TALK OR WRITING

While gossip forms one of the oldest and (still) the most common means of spreading and sharing facts and views, it also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and other variations into the information thus transmitted.

Women have at one time or other destroyed their relationships, marriages, and friendship as a result of gossip......so why continue to do so?