I was chatting with someone I’ve known for many years, and he started to tell me something in confidence about his business. He asked the standard, “can I tell you something that you can’t share with others?” I think my answer caught him off guard.
Instead of agreeing and listening to something that he doesn’t want to have shared, I told him not to tell me. As interested as I was (and still am) in what is happening with his business, I declined to hear the secret he wanted to share with me.
There have been far too many times that someone shared something with me “privately” only for me to hear it from other people a short time later. Most people don’t mind when this private news is shared amongst friends, but it always feels icky when I hear other people talking about things I was asked not to discuss.
Maybe people tend to ask me to keep something private because I have a more public platform and they don’t want their news or story shared widely. Maybe that’s just normal, but I can’t really say for sure. It bothers me when I hear something from someone else that I already know and was supposed to keep private.
I have no issue keeping things private. When I learn something or am told something in confidence, I keep it that way. On the other hand, when I hear something that was supposed to remain private, I don’t want anyone to ever think it was me who shared their private news with someone else.
In general, if someone asks if they can tell me something in private that can’t be shared, I’d probably rather not know.
This is pretty common in business. I don’t want to sign an NDA for some circumstances and I don’t want to limit some of my ideas and opportunities. If I had come up with something someone else is doing, then they could say I got it from them when in reality I was already thinking about it. But I didn’t fill out the NDA with all my ideas because they are so broad. I explain them exactly the above. I would rather have you sign something that says, I have free reign to pursue and say anything I want. Anything I don’t say will be based on our friendship but not legally binding 🤣
I’d rather not know a secret but understand when something shouldn’t be shared.
Can I tell you who owns NamePros? You can’t share it with anyone else.
What if I already know?!
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I’m calling BullS on that one. 😜
Can I tell you who owns the biggest website in the Internet world and it is the website of the Year
www BullShitWebsites.com
For your holiday song
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To be fair… And not to take all the credit
Domain investing ,domain gang and dnw share the same title of the website of the year…
Thanks for your contributions 🙂😺
Absolutely agree!
Witness protection program told me to not divulge any information that might lead to other information!