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Gossip take up to 2/3 of converastion time. It's suggested role is to defend aggainst free riders<ref>[http://attach.matita.net/ziorufus/Dunbar%20gossip.pdf Dunbar, R. I. (2004). Gossip in evolutionary perspective. Review of general psychology, 8, 100-110.]</ref> (parazite), or basicly against ingustice.
Gossip serves a useful social function in bonding group members together. In the distant past, when humans lived in small bands and meeting strangers was a rare occurrence, gossip helped us survive and thrive.
Gossip, I think, is dervied from the need to talk with others and look at problems from other perspective. It is a basic need to share in order to let the group [[The problem of coordination|coordinate]] more easly. While gossiping, people can create better [[SON]]s, and commun culture. It is also used to strenghten our [[social capital]]. Therefore people uses more time in gossiping then in actual planing and doing.