[ecolli]

This is kind of a difficult question for me. I have a few extremely close friends whom I have known for years and I share everything with. If one of them tells me something, they usually don't say "Keep this to yourself". Because of that, in order to help them and myself, I tend to bounce whatever it was they told me off of another person in that group of friends. Not as an act of betrayal, but simply as something we can all think and learn from.

Now with that said, there are many things that someone will tell me that I would never share with another one of those friends. So in that respect, yes, I can be very good at keeping a secret.

I guess "secret-keeping" becomes a problem for me because I tend to view all of my friends as equals, and I know beyond a doubt it won't go outside of our circle (even if people in that circle don't know each other as well as I know them). So in other words, I'm also terrible at keeping secrets. In a more conceited viewpoint, if I am at the center of a circle, and my friends are what surround me, each one bounces a secret at me, and it ends up bouncing around to other areas of the circle as well.

I don't know. It's very strange, but the people I'm around trust me immensely, even though they know things get bounced around. We all know nothing will leave the circle, so we all trust each other. I'm hoping I explained this thoroughly enough that it doesn't make me sound terrible.

[Angelos]

I can keep a secret and take it to the grave if I feel honor-bound to do so. I also pride myself on my discretion and personal reliability in confidential matters, though I see it as naive to reveal important information about oneself.

As for myself, I never reveal anything that isn't either necessary or insignificant.

[Soli]

I have always kept secrets, a secret. I think it's because I don't go out of the way to occupy my thoughts with other peoples problems. My mind is often wondering around something I find to be of superior importance, and why I find them to be superior, how would one subjectively define superior, why do I find most people inferior, am I superior? No you aren't you pompous ass, stop it. See what I mean?
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I honestly forget most secrets that are shared with me, almost immediately. It isn't that I don't value their importance, I just don't consume my thoughts with them, my thoughts consume me instead
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[texzen]

I keep secrets. Usually the "news" is such a non-event to me that it doesn't even enter my mind to tell someone else about it.

The only time I do not keep a secret is when a student tells me something in confidence that jeopardizes their safety--such as they are being abused; having sex; breaking the law; etc. In these instances, I am either legally or morally bound to share the information with their parents, a social worker, or the school's atty. I tell them ahead of time, "It depends" when they ask me, "If I tell you something--do you promise not to tell anyone?"

[Lord Shadowbane]

I can keep any secret I'm told safe. However, if the secret adversely affects another person I will divulge it to somebody I think can do some good. If somebody tells me they stealing things from others or breaking into places I'll report them because I believe they ought to not be doing such things and that reporting it is for their own good.

[too late]

Yes, I'm very good at keeping secrets. People always trust me and I pretty much have "dirt" on a lot of people, but I would never use it against them, even if I didn't like them. I mean, I know some of the most atrocious things about some of my relatives and friends, goodness....
Won't tell a soul.

I would get annoyed if others can't keep MY secrets....that's why I never tell anyone things about myself which should remain secret. Which is why no one knows the real me.

[delilah]

I can keep a secret as well as I can be one.

Who wants to hear something interesting?

[HAL 9000]

My resume would be much shorter if I couldn't keep any secrets.

No, it doesn't annoy me when someone cannot keep a secret. There is the honest secret-teller who knows enough to tell you before you divulge classified information. These people I do not mind.

The ones that lie and tell you they can...those are another story.

[Tito]

I can and do keep not just a secret, but many.

And I don't get angry when someone can't keep a secret I trusted them with. I will never share a secret with them ever again, that's sure.

[Mind Marauder]

I do not understand how people can be content to be a secret. It's kind of pathetic. No human should be a secret. Nothing disturbed me more in T.H. White's The Once and Future King than Elaine constantly trying to win back Lancelot, despite the fact that Lancelot was clearly in love with Guenever and having a hard time sorting out his own emotional problems. Lancelot involved himself with her because, first, he was tricked and, second, because he felt sorry for her. Neither are grounds for a successful relationship. Theoretically, I could keep a person a secret. However, if they did not resist my desire then I would realize that they had a serious lack of emotional stability. That is not attractive.

As for keeping secrets, I hold to no rule that determines my actions towards secrets. If a person means something to me, then I might keep the secret based on the situation. However, if the person means nothing to me, I will not hesitate to expose the secret if the situation warrants it.

[FATHER]

I don't keep secrets,unless im asked to & thats easy,no matter how dark. . .unless

its something evil.

But I don't run and tell people either.I hate gossip,I don't talk about other peoples or my own problems unless im looking for a solution.

People tell me stuff they shouldn't ALL THE TIME.

& I think to myself,why me?lol

[Silence]

I keep secrets for a living. It's a far heavier thing than I ever anticipated, but I keep them.

I also discover secrets on my own, and that requires a whole different secrets-keeping skill than if someone divulges a secret to me. It's never a happpy circumstance when I discover something ugly about someone that I thought I knew.

Because of these secrets, I reveal nothing of myself that someone might let loose later on down the line- be it on purpose or accident.

[Photolysis]

I'm good at keeping stuff secret. Especially my own secrets! If I really don't want anyone to know, then no one will. I'm not one of those who has a need to confide in someone.

[Totentanz]

I'm a good secret keeper but only because I forget them later. Personally I don't have any secrets to tell. I am not the type to be affected by guilt (or any other emotion) as to feel compelled to spill the beans to someone.

[HereticForLife]

"Hey, wanna hear a secret? I'll tell you one, if you promise not to tell." This annoys me to no end, primarily because I find gossiping pointless and others don't see the hypocrisy in any of that.

I'm good at keeping secrets, though. I know what it's like to have information of yours divulged against your wishes. That being said, while my friends frequently tell me secrets, I would never trust a single person with mine. Hence the term 'secret.'

[imaqt125]

I sometimes have difficulty keeping secrets. When other people say stupid things that anger me because of their ignorance sometimes I feel I have to enlighten them.

Ex "John is such a jerk, he thinks he's so good at everything. Always showing off." Me "Well you'd be like that too if you're old man was always smacking you and telling you that you were a failure. Maybe he needs to feel like he's good at something. He brags because he feels he has to earn your approval, he probably isn't trying to make you feel inadequate. Goodness, how hard would it be for you to give him a compliment instead of isolating him?"

The person has gained proper perspective and empathy, but I've just revealed Johns secret. I try do deliver in such a way that the person won't want to share it out of spite. I don't share secrets in ways that I predict will hurt people. I won't tell anything to someone who I think will take improper advantage. I also make sure I never share more than I believe to be necessary. It infuriates me when people do.

[Dusk]

If I'm told something in confidence, it would take torture for me to profess the secret. Unless that knowledge will hurt someone, you have no right to betray the person who opened up to you. Betrayal of trust is the one thing that will cause me to end a relationship.

[BlackFlames]

I think I can keep a secret. I dont talk to much people anyway so its safe with me. If someone where to tell my secret I think I'l be mad but hey I have no secrets and if I did (Well I do) I wouldn't tell anyone....you can't trust humans

[JackCY]

I can keep it, if somebody else says something to me, I understand it's personal or if they say not to tell anybody, no problem, nobody is going to hear it from me even if they know a little I'm gonna play dumb whatever, even if they know the whole thing I might refuse to say it's correct or false.
My own secrets hmm, that is hard not to tell to close friends, but sometimes it would be wise to be quiet.

Somebody reveals somebody's else secret to me ==> I don't trust them anymore that much.
Somebody reveals my secret to somebody else ==> I don't trust them anymore, it's betrayal for me.

So don't tell anybody a secret unless they need to know so your plan works etc.

[Reddkatz]

I'm a secrets collector. I have been keeping things that are secrets for years now so much that I forgot what they were. I don't tell anyone things that are meant to keep secrets because I have a general mistrust of people giving me their word.

[Savvysavy]

Honestly, I'm very good at ceeping secrets and by knowing that others aren't I have to be very close to someone in order for me to tell them something. When a secret does get out though it really dosn't bother me unless it was super privet. I actually feel kind of relieved when that happens though because I no longer have to ceep it a secret, it's out there.

[chalice]

i can keep a secret. actually i'm quite good at it. of course if i remember the secret in the first place. i'm rather bad at remembering secrets i don't find somehow useful and i don't like to randomly occupy my mind with someone else's thoughts.
and i'm selfish which means that whatever people tell me would be stored for personal use only. sure as hell i will use everything someone's told me to make out more information about his/her personality. information is very important to me, it's quite stupid to freely spread it around.

as for the other question, i don't remember ever trusting someone with my secrets. it's stupid. i don't feel the need to share them. after all, they're my secrets - they're not supposed to be known by anyone else.

[Moniker9]

I can keep a mean secret. I'm like a vault. This one time for example, George Bush told me he was the second shooter on the grassy knoll.... aww shit.