Sometimes you can't help but overhear someone else's conversation, especially when they are talking loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear; otherwise, if someone wants me to know something they will tell me; if not, it's really none of my business.

Reality TV hints at the voyeur in everyone. It looks bad, but it feels good. It satisfies a deep-seated social need.

How else are you going to find things out. Wait for someone to tell ya.

What is it? A high school?...

Sometimes you can't help it because you're in earshot of others talking but the people that do eavesdrop can be annoying when they hop into your conversation.

This should only be done when you want to hear what someone else is saying.

W., I will not surrender my right to being secure in my own home. If Uncle Sam wants to spy on me, he can go get a court order along with all the burden of proof required, just like he has always needed to. I will not surrender my right to privacy, not even for the noble reason of protecting national security. This is not about hating Bush or anything like that. This is about a clear infringement upon my rights guaranteed in the Constitution and the amendments thereof. The instant I become a target of this little spying group Bush set up, I will sue the hell out of the government and make damn sure this goes before the Supreme Court, where I will win one for the American People. Security at all cost is not an option. I do not and will not support having Uncle Sam looking into every little thing I do as a matter or routine, all in the name of national security, and especially without proving a clear and present danger before a federal magistrate.

What is wrong with you people. Bush has just proved he IS doing everything he can to protect you. Do ya'll thing we can combat these thugs without doing some sneakey stuff? I think you are looking past the obvious just to hate bush. EVERYTHING you lefties do is to beat on Bush. Think like a Warrior for a second and not a "feelings" person. Life is not all daisies and strawberries. People sometimes need to take drastic mesures. Ask the folks in Nepal about peacefull solutions.

What sucks is when you get caught. Even worse, when you get caught by the people(s) you are eavesdropping on.

I think it can be a horrid habit, but can be very tempting. Why do we read tabloid papers then? Because it is tempting!

how else you gonna find out what other people are talking about? just kidding. this is a waste of your life. why waste the time it all comes out anyway eventually especially if people are up to no good

well I'm sorry to say that I'm guilty of doing this. Although I know it's not a good thing to do, sometimes you just can't help but listen to other peoples conversations. People listen to my conversations all the time.

Actually, I have a habit of doing this. That way if someone talks about me, maybe I'll deck him or her in the grille. Teach him/her a lesson.

I hate people who eavesdrop. But then again, when I do it, it can be fun.

Let's just say there's a lot more worse on this list than eavesdropping.

Rhett Butler said, "Eavesdroppers often learn very entertaining things". Unfortunately, eavesdroppers can also learn they are not always quite so highly regarded as they thought. Perhaps ignorance is bliss.

What about if you overheard people talking about you?

I would like to start by saying that noone should be saying anything they are ashamed for others to hear.But that does not justify eavesdropping in the least.Eavesdropping is an invasion of privacy.

quit listening to my private conversation. it's not for you, so fuc* off. you hear soemthing about you in the enxt room? want to hear more? too bad, it wasnt meant for you. as*hole.

I've been guilty of this a few times. If the opportunity's there, then it's hard not to, but it's still a violation of privacy and a pretty bad thing to do especially if it becomes a habit.

Other than the fact that it goes against our right to privacy...it is very rude. I don't understand why someone would get a kick out of listening to us when we are unaware(that's kind of scary actually), but no one ever said that people with this habit were normal. I've personally had a few experiences with people like this and I am glad that it is not one of my habits.

I don't see where this is so bad. It's kind of rude I guess, but nothing life threatening or dangerous.

This is a very annoying habit on the part of the people who do it. Eavesdropping is disrespectful; two people may be having a private conversation and they don't know that they are being listened in to. People who do this should mind their own business, no matter how gossipsy the conversation might be. I know that the government eavesdrops on us all the time; God knows they're monitoring what we're all saying right now!! Anyways, eavesdroppers are everywhere you go in public, so you should be careful of saying anything too private in public because then people who you don't know will know your private stuff, so be careful! (Not so sound paranoid or anything like that!!)

There's a guy at work (he's leaving today - yay!) and he always eavesdrops on other peoples conversations and then tries joining in when he hasn't even been invited to. One time I was talking to another workmate about what someone was emailing me, and it wasn't the kind of thing I could say out loud so I insinuated to her and she could guess the rest. We were laughing and this annoying workmate asked me what the joke was, I said that there wasn't one, but he didn't believe me and wanted to know. I told him that it was none of his business. He continually does stuff like this and many other things - so I can't wait for him to leave. Awful habit.

Eavesdroppers behind my door beware, i can kill.

I don't view this as a particularly bad habit in itself. It's more about what you choose to do with the information (if it's even of the slightest importance) that you recieve from the eavesdropping. If you spread what you around then I would probably argue that it's a terrible habit (because that would be gossiping), but if they don't know that you know, and no one else finds out what you know, then I think it's a quite harmless way to spend your day.

I know that anyone who has had more than 2 or 3 jobs in their life feels they could write a book entitled “Morons I Have Worked For” and I’m seriously considering it. This topic brought to mind the worst of the lot – so far anyway. This woman was pure evil and one of her worst habits was eavesdropping. She would walk through my office and if she noticed me talking on the phone would sort of linger outside my door within earshot in a room where there were various periodicals and boxes of software pretending to read. The topper though was when I realized that she not only did that but also actually listened in on personal conversations from her office phone. It took me awhile to realize this was happening because since my mind doesn’t work that way I don’t automatically expect other people to do these things. Her second favorite way was to utilize her rear kissing administrative assistant to spy for her. Once I noticed her micro managing I-am-a goddess-all-must-serve-me attitude I realized she actually felt she had a perfect right to gather information in any way she could. So, yes I definitely feel that evesdropping is a very unscrupulous thing to do and almost always an unnecessary invasion of privacy. I would also say that, in that case, it actually ended up revealing more about the person doing it than the person whose privacy was being invaded. My boss was a mean, hateful woman who treated people as if they were her personal servants. Her managing techniques were hideous and unproductive. By the time I realized she would stoop to those tactics I wasn’t the least bit surprised.

There's something sneaky and underhanded about eavesdropping which makes other bad habits like, say, nose-picking, seem like walks in a park. Eavesdropping is the aural equivalent of snooping through somebody's desk. It can lead to some Three's Company-esque misunderstandings too, especially when eaves are dropped only on one side of a conversation (e.g. listening to somebody talk on the phone)....