word... as long as im happy, then i really dont give a f*ck about popualrity... im happy, so i dont care wiether im popular or not [[cause i get along with everybody]]

At first when I read this thread I thought I was going to find some deep, insight on how people really view popularity. Not saying a lot of you didn't reply thoughtfully, but the numerous posts filled with "Popular girls are slutty b*tches" is quite disheartening.

I'm not saying your wrong though, you could be speaking from past experience. Many of you said that being popular just means being well-known or having a lot of friends, but the dictionary definition is:

1. Widely liked or appreciated

Okay, we all know that isn't always true because some people are popular, but not widely liked. But that doesn't necessarily mean that just because someone is popular means they're a bitch.

Don't think I'm trying to justify myself -- pigs will fly the day I become POPULAR -- but I actually have a good friend whom you could consider "popular" and well liked by guys, mostly because she's pretty and has a nice body. Because of this, people immediately jump to the conclusion she is slutty, which is way off the mark if you ask me. I find that people who are considered "popular" get it almost as bad as those people sometimes consider "losers" so, really it doesn't matter what level you are on the food chain because we all have to deal with the same **** anyway.

The end.

i dont believe in popularity.

Screw the popular people. The popular people in my school are always snobby and think they are all that. I try to be anti-popular

yeah, in school i mostly hang out with guys, even though most of my really good friends are girls. what sucks is the rumors that end up being spread about me and my guy friends, but thats okay i guess, i wouldnt ditch a friend because of rumors.

uh huh. popularity is a big thing in my school, but in a sense no one actually has any enemies. some of the populars ARE slutty bitches, but that doesnt apply to them all - i am friends with some of them and they are really nice.

It's not important
if you're popular good for you?
I dont think its important at all
Being an outcast is better

Hm...i say if you have friends thats all that counts. Being popular is an extra most ppl dont need.

ive been at a point where i was really popular, trust me it sucked ass. thre was so much pressure on you. now im in-between a healthy mix of popularity&outcast; which i like. i can back off of my social life whenever i want, but whenever i feel like hanging out with my friends i always can.

popularity is stupid. once you go to college or the real world - YOU ARE NO ONE once again.

dude, dont even worry about that kind of thing. as long as your happy with the friends you have, then you are popular.

no, popularity does not matter! think about all the "popular" people at your school. at my school, they are are all bitches and bastards and they all have no REAL friends because once one of them does something wrong, the other "friend" will just turn around and stab them in the back. so no.

errrrr no. I don't think its popular. well, its 8th grade year for me and our school goes to 6-8th grade, 6th and 7th graders "look up" to the 8th graders -_- so like they think 8th graders r popular, but we're NOT. I kno most of the 8th graders, we just treat each other like a family. well known ppl in my school r VERY nice too

Go f**k yourself.


And of course it matters to be popular... You don't want nerdy friends, do you? Social status is important.

Er, no. We stick up for each other. Some of the girls are like that though. And there's this one gay guy...

Anyway, social status is important to us kids. Sorry for basically double-posting.

my high school is too huge to be popular, it's more if you're popular within different groups and if you know a lot of people.. but with close to 4,000 kids in our school and 1250 in my freshman class this year.. there's not really a 'popular' crowd.

yeah, i guess. it doesn't really matter. i never really noticed until i got slammed into the ground by a horde of seventh graders on sight and won a couple elections where other people should have won. they put in more effort and i didn't at all.

it makes me feel really guilty.

Ha. No, I'm not popular. I'm just normal I guess. Our school isn't really like that I guess.

I used to go out with a popular person (in the slut/jock/funny/obnoxious category type of popular), so that's what I'm basically known for.

Otherwise, I'm friends with alot of different people. So yeah, they know who I am, but I'm not friends with the... "plastics", as some call them.

We don't really have those types of groups..I'm in the middle of the whole bunch, I would say.

I'm not popular, and I'm proud of that. I have my many friends; I don't need to be known by the whole school or have good connections with everybody to be happy.

In middle school, my school was so small, that everyone knew each other.
The word popular didn't really exist.
But the phrase popular wannabe did.

That seems to be what popularity is elsewhere, in my nice little town there sin't really one popular group, everyone is fairly nice to everyone to their faces, but there is a bit of picking behind their backs. And I guess the only way to know if your popular or not at my school is if you sit at "the table" at lunch haha. It's the best one in the cafeteria right infront of the big window Well it's a really long table so lots of people sit at it, but the same people sit at it everyday, and everyone just talks to everyone....I sit at that table, and I'm kinda popular, but really popularity doesn't matter that much, as long as you have friends...
And the non-popular people at my school tend to be the slutty people that sleep around a lot..

I'm kind of popular, I hang out with the 'popular' group, but I'm not really a part of it. I only date boys from it though. Suprisingly, I get alot of boyfriends from there. I'm really friends with everyone though. I have nerdy friends who are more like me, very WEIRD. friends whom I have alot of fun with, and gothy friends who are cool.

i dont care about popularity. bad things usually happens to popular people.and u waste a LOT of $. sereiously its not a good thing to be popular. like wannabes, they waste their money for
-way expensive sneakers like $80 a pair
-expensive clothing when you can perfectly wear regular clothing
-junk you dont need
why do you need to be popular as long as you have friends that care about you and not your popularity?

people usually become popular because they dont have any friends and act like they're everything.

i agree

Popularity is the stupidest most childish thing ever. Silly and stupid.

Besides. Who decide's who is popular anyways? The clothes..the shoes..the boyfriends?

Take a picture cause I assure you it wont last forever.

[quote=ThePrincessofTKD,Jul 11 2004, 5:44 PM]


at my school...there are 3 ways to be popular...or well known throughout the school.

1] looks
2] rumors
3] brains

and that`s mainly it.

thats how i was popular and the fact that i was new and i went out with the most popular boyz.O i also got into a fight with a gurl who nobody likes and won.

i dont think so. everyone at my school is pretty much the same. we dont have "the one girl" or "the one guy". but i guess thats just how high school is.

Umm, I really don't know.
But everyone knows everyone in my school so I guess I am?

No, all the popular people at my school can't get into college. Except for like the valedictorians or whatever.

hard core popular kids wouldnt even me a member of this forum so this question is useless

^ that's not necessarily true. But since you brought this topic up from the dead, I'll merge it with other topics.

honestly, at our school pretty much everyone is nice to eachother...except for like that one mortal enemy. but we do have our own little groups...i'm in the popular group but i don't really act popular. i don't think that the whole popular stereotype is true either: rich and snotty. becaue plenty of my friends are the sweetest people ever and they aren't all rich either.

im average.
at my school your popular if your:

oo1: jock
oo2: looks
oo3: designer clothes.

that doesnt happen at my school.

only on tv shows, lol you know where the "popular kids" are in there own little click
and walk around saying how people suck. no. f**k that, they'd get their ass kicked lol.


i have quite a few friends though. but yeah like suzzette said, no real cliques.

Well, I guess I hang around with a rather large group of people, but I'm not exactly popular.

the weird thin gis, at our school, we don't really have "popular" people.... so no, I guess i'm not then =D

I think you'd have be really stuck up/ conceited if you were to admit that you are popular on here.

I wouldn't say I'm POPULAR, but I mean, I talk to everybody, and I try to be nice to everyone. I'm pretty sure everyone in the school knows me because of my boyfriend. I'm just "Dom's girlfriend." >.<

well in HS theres the couple hot party girls and the stoner guys that are really popular n since we have like learnign communities ucant really tell,

i think ur popular for how many good looking "girl" friends as in you know them n they know u but for girls ur either hot or u just standout lol

I'm known because I am sister of Ms. Popular.

Agh, I know what that's like. My older brother was Mr. Popular and was a bit upset that I didn't follow in his footsteps...I'm a bit of a loner

But like I probably said earlier, I don't care about being popular. If someone likes me for me I'll be happy, if someone doesn't like who I am then oh well.

^ I feel the same way. I don't care if I'm popular. If I do become popular, it's not because I'm trying to. I just go with the flow. Some people try so hard to become "popular", but they only end up making themselves disliked even more (entering the group uninvited, trying to go out with popular guys, creating drama to be recognized, etc)...

all the 'popular' people in my school just think they are cool.but the kids in my school who are 'popular' drink,smoke,party all day,have s3x,are sl-ts,wh0res,and etc.

UGH i think popularity is VASTLY overrated dnt you? i mean yea its OK in high school but what when u graduate? its not like you "STAY POPULAR" in collge.. i dunno

Wow this post is still up.
Popular is really being known for something you do or at least people know who you are.
I don't think i'm popular, but stupid people be putting out rumors about me .. a girl who i thought was my friend. UGh. yeah off the subject. In my Highschool it's all about the "gears" as clothes and who you're with. I don't care much. I know enough seniors juniors and soph for a freshmen so it's okay. POPULARiTY is how you speak to people. :]

Rawr i hate that word.

okay let me just say something to the kiddo's who think there so great and popular..


TO BE POPULAR IT MEANS EVERYBODY(yes every person) LIKES YOU OBVIOUSLY IN LIFE THERE WILL BE PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE YOU !!

okay, bye