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[Dragon Warrior]

[QUOTE=John]I'm with you, bro. Being that I've completed two years of high school, I've gained a flawless understanding of my fellow man, and how every iota of his mind and personality can be divined by looking at what he wears and who he hangs out with. Yessir, I'm part of a superior breed of human who, of course, won't inevitably end up working in a cubicle next to a [i]popular[/i] kid in ten years. And I, like you, refuse to conform, but that doesn't make me a "non-conformist" because [i]that's just another form of conformity ohemgee[/i], which is a startling revelation that only one as insightful as ourselves could make.

I'm so glad I was born with the ability to change preferences and opinions into universal truths.[/QUOTE]

I hope you're kidding XD

[quote name='Pumpkin][COLOR=#333333][FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]When I'm single I can be described as a major flirt, especially back then when I was a major attention whore (*cough*Gavin*cough* J/K), which I can't really stand to be anymore. [/FONT'][/COLOR][/quote]

Heeeey :P You like attention from me. Don't think you don't.

[Guest Setsuna 16]

Well I can't say that I have a small group of friends and I'm not popular but I can say that not all people who are popular are mean sluts. Mostly when people think popular they think snobby, mean, and stuck-up. Which isn't too far from the truth but me and my friends aren't like that and popularity is overrated anyway you can be the most popular person in school one day and an outcast the next. That and when you're popular people don't get to know the real you only what they heard through rumors like I was trying to talk to this girl who was sitting by herself at lunch and all she kept asking me was if rumors she heard about me were true.




[COLOR=Pink]And yes we do love to be the center of attention[/COLOR] :rolleyes:

[conpiracymonki]

[size=1]I've always managed to be popular/under-the-radar popular, somehow.

Before high school I moved house, so I only knew a handful of kids. It just so happened that me and my 3 closest friends somehow become really influential within our class. We kinda hooked up cos of our deep interest in WWF & games at the time, but all four of us were nothing alike. And um yeah, by the end of the year we pretty much had the whole class behind the 4 of us like some sort of movement because everyone was close with atleast one of us lol.
The four of us carried on getting popular as the years went on, but we grew apart too because our interests were so different lol. I think by the final year of high school, everyone in my year and the one below me knew my name as well as probably 60% of the rest of the school. Great feeling.

Enter college. It was a scary change and we definitely didnt like the kids from the suburbs. Just because. We pretty much assumed everyone was stuck-up and tried our damnedest not to make any new friends, because we were obviously better than them (hypocritical, no?). We werent popular or unpopular, but we were very known because of the high school we came from and because of our excluding behaviour.

2nd year college and we decided behaving like jerks was doing anybody any favours so we loosened up around everyones. I think everyone was in shock at the sudden change in all of us lol, cos suddenly everybody was up in our face wanting to talk lol.
To be honest though, most of the people at college were fairly plain compared to us so our quirky personalities may have um.. [i]contributed[/i] to our sudden popularity. I mean, I was the only guy who could walk around and hug any other guy at will and give dap to the girlies without anyone raising an eyebrow lol.

Generally speaking, I think one thing that attracts people to me is my urge to involve people somehow. I end up organising events and get-togethers, or helping out someone else behind the scenes etc. The downside of being liked I think is when you're constantly getting calls and texts at like 3 and 6 in the morning, and everyone actually expects a response lol. I like my sleep =/
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[Panda]

I would have to say I was well-known in school but not a part of the so-called "popular" clique.

Growing up in a very small rural community I pretty much knew all of my classmates from pre-school on through my senior year in school. Having an older brother who was 2 years ahead of me also increased my friend/acquaintance pool as well. I was friendly with everyone regardless of what group people were "members". In that sense I was popular. No one picked on me, everyone would talk to me, but I would hang out with my core group of friends and they are who my high school social life revolved around.

As for my college days. I pretty much only made friends/acquaintances amonst the people who shared the same classes as me. I was far to busy with working full time and studies to be worried about cliques.

Today I am still the same visit with everyone person. Am I popular? I don't even know if there is such a thing at my age. Unless you count being famous or infamous as popularity. While out shopping I still get former vet clients who tell me they miss me at the clinic and wish I would come back. It's nice to feel wanted but I'm not sure if that counts as popularity.

The closest I came to having that feeling like I was popular recently was when my best friend's teenage daughter told her mom on a shopping trip they should have asked me to tag along because I'm fun to hang out with. Awww....I'm a grown up that's fun to hang out with, that rocks.

[John]

[quote name='Dragon Warrior']I hope you're kidding XD[/quote] Don't worry. :P