Evil Plans...

Saw an article in the paper the other day which said sharing gossip helps in building better bonds of friendship. Hmmm....
A few weeks ago, a few friends and i decided to make use of the little information we have and minute observations we make about other people in the class and put them on cyberspace as a blog. Just for fun and maybe as a reminder of what we were like and what we did in college. Of course no names. And lots of innuendo. And a promise that we won't tell anyone about this and to let people find out on their own. Then somewhere down the line, we all decided not to. Maybe certain people's comments to certain stuff written about them on someone else's blog made us realise people were touchy after all, however much they may try to create an image of the opposite. Maybe we were afraid it might turn out to be malicious. Or even the fact that we're all too lazy too indulge in something like that....
But the question is, how do we decide what gossip is? ive realised that invariably when one talks about another person, it ends up being 'oh i heard that this person...' or 'this person is so (fill with adjective)...' which might get construed as 'gossip'. But most of it is harmless, it makes no difference to anyone in the world and no attitudes or perceptions of people are changed.
So does that mean the minute it changes people's perceptions of someone, it becomes gossip? Or when you make up stuff based on little fact and lots of imagination? i know people who've become the world's worst enemies just cos someone had a bad experience with them and decided to tell everyone within earshot about it. Or the other way round, where someone is hated by everyone just cos that person bitches about everyone. Maybe the news report ain't all that right.
Where does one draw the line?? Could someone temme fast cos i have this juicy bit of...