In any group employs people with different character and demeanor. Sometimes you have to suffer from the "evil" of languages and listen to gossip about his own person. All this may damage the career and beyond. It is important to distinguish between gossip and people who know everything about everyone. They are called "information desk".
A man with a reputation for "help desk" looks very similar to gossip. These people all know and hear everything. Colleagues collect information not from malice, but out of a desire to help everyone and be irreplaceable. These girls are usually alone. For information about other make sense of their lives, without which they are suffering. Try not to get irritated, and use their knowledge in the right direction, for example, to obtain useful data to work with.
Such persons in the team have profitable. If you need to quickly disseminate information about themselves, you can tell them, "The Information Desk". After some time, the information reaches the right people. Just do not use often similar services.
Colleague with a reputation for "Gossip Girl" feels the need for self-affirmation through the humiliation of others. These people collect real information and disseminate it in a distorted way. "Gossip Girl" is also dangerous because it can distort and business information or for harm does not pass it, creating from other employees a reason for conflict. It's desirabletalk to that person directly. This deters intriguers, and as a result, they fall silent.
There are cases when people provoke the emergence of gossip about the person. For example, tell yourself information about unfamiliar people, forgetting that not everyone can keep a secret. The object of gossip are those who arrogantly or relates to others often criticize colleagues. Try to talk less about his personal life at work, interests and hobbies.