INTPs and secrets

[xbox]

Are any of you able to keep a secret? If not, did you somehow rationalize not keeping it?

 

[Pyropyro]

Yup as long as the sharer specifically said that it is CONFIDENTIAL info.

Should I learn that the sharer leaked the info to our friends, then I assume that the confidentiality is lifted.

 

[Kuu]

*Kuu puts xbox in the untrustworthy box and determines never to tell it anything.


Keeping secrets is really easy. I don't readily talk about most of anything, by nature, so deliberately hiding information is as easy as it comes...

 

[Lot]

I'm horrid at it. I need to be told explicitly not to. Even then I still tell people, that don't know the person, sometimes. I'm not sure why. I guess I think all knowledge should be shared, or something along those lines. If I want things secrete I just don't say them.

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

It depends on the information and the situation. I normally tend to keep them, but there is that "I scratch your back you scratch mine" aspect of sharing gossip with fellow introverts/individuals that meet a certain set of criteria that... well... provides me with more information.

 

[Jennywocky]

If someone asks me to keep something secret, I do.

In general, I also typically keep information anonymous if it seems to me to make sense to do so. (For example, sometimes I will use said knowledge as an example of something in a discussion, but I'll only do so around strangers and/or keeping the person in question totally anonymous; if there's a way that someone could discover the person I'm talking about, I won't bring it up.)

 

[Fukyo]

Are any of you able to keep a secret? If not, did you somehow rationalize not keeping it?

Did you say something you shouldn't have?

 

[SandMizzle]

If someone asks me to keep something secret, I do.

In general, I also typically keep information anonymous if it seems to me to make sense to do so. (For example, sometimes I will use said knowledge as an example of something in a discussion, but I'll only do so around strangers and/or keeping the person in question totally anonymous; if there's a way that someone could discover the person I'm talking about, I won't bring it up.)

Same with me. The only exception is my best friend (ENTP). We are nearly one mind and share everything with each other. But if it would be necessary I would give my life not to betray someone or reveal a secret.
I often got problems at work and school because I didn't help the chef/teachers to find the problem makers. So they decided that I should be punished. Weird people out there.

 

[Cognisant]

Yup as long as the sharer specifically said that it is CONFIDENTIAL info.

Ditto, I've often explained that I don't intuitively grasp what needs to be kept secret and what doesn’t, but if I do know I'm bound to by very uncompromising integrity, then there's situations where for whatever reason the secret ought to be told, perhaps the reason for keeping it a secret has gone or I could assume that the secret owner would want me to let it out in this context, so I'll guide the person in question to figuring out the secret themself.

My integrity remains unharmed if I didn’t “tell” them anything.

 

[Dormouse]

I'm pretty fantastic at keeping other people's secrets, and pretty horrible at keeping my own.

If I'm keeping something from any given group, before long they'll all know about it, but not know anyone else knows about it. It's actually pretty amusing.

Also, after about ten years I assume most needs for secrecy will have expired.

 

[xbox]

I'm a good secret keeper, promise

I was just thinking about "hmm what would happen if I just said it.. oh terrible things will happen...TERRIBLE." Then I fall into a daydream about the possible sequence of dramatic events.

I think the potential drama is what keeps my mouth closed too, erm, along with whoever trusted me to keep it confidential.

 

[Mizzykin]

I'm very good at keeping secrets, but the thing is, I don't usually care about other peoples secrets. I mean, not my super close friends.. but normal friends or acquaintances. If they let me know that they have a secret, I usually just nod and go back to whatever I was doing.
People often tell me their secrets, because I have a not-so-surprising tendency to keep my mouth shut most of the time.
If I did tell a secret about a close friend, I would feel extremely guilty.

 

[BigApplePi]

I don't think in terms of secrets. I think "privacy." If you know someone doesn't want something disclosed for whatever reason, why would you want to hurt them? I would hope you would honor my wishes also. If in doubt, why not ask if something can be made public? It also helps to know whom you can trust to make such a judgment.

 

[A22]

A secret is only a secret if only one person knows it. I'm very able to keep things to myself, but if someone tells me a "secret", I have to struggle not to tell someone.