Is it normal to talk about your friends behind their back?

I don't backstab friends, but I get what you mean. If a friend is venting about another, I sit there, listen and try to be as helpful as I can without worsening the situation. I think it may even be healthy to vent your feelings to another friend who you can trust won't repeat anything you've said in anger.

I think everybody talks about their friends behind their backs. But i believe that if your going to stab a person then do it in the front

I talk about everyone behind their back but only in a very superficial way such as "Katy has a job interview on Wednesday". I can occasionally discuss how I feel about people (because it's about me, as much as them). But I'd never ever break a confidence or bitch about someone.

your friends will dwindle to the point you will have to backstab yourself to yourself

If you're just telling them something funny that happened to a friend, then I believe that's normal. Everyone I know does that to their friends. Now if you're talking bad about him, like you would an enemy, then no it's not normal, and you don't deserve those friends.

if u're a girl, its normal. cuz girls dont really know how to confront one another because we r just too scared of complications. but talking behind ones back have its own complications as well. believe me.

Everyone i know does it, but than again my area has a lot of fake people. =/

I don't talk crap behind most peoples backs, but i think it's a part of human nature to do it just a little...i think

maybe i said this wrong. i dont break confidence or anything like that. i occasionally vent to a friend about another friend. i do talk about most of
my friends in a good way but i vent to other people when i get mad

i find myself talking about my friends all the time. just as dappled said, i usually am not talking bad about them, but just to say,"hey my friend did this thing this one time on such and such day in the middle of whatever season,blah blah blah." other times i do vent about them and their somewhat annoying personality traits. i find that i would have no problem with telling these things to their face anyways. depends on how close you are to your freinds i guess...

Just do not say anything about them that you would not say to them directly. Otherwise you define what is considered two-faced.

No. I wouldn't want to have a friend like you, that's for sure!