"Popular" Kids

[Baudelaire]

I hate them, not all of them, just the "golden bathed" annoying, preppy ones who act important. People like this exist in all schools, some are nice, some aren't. My question is, are you considered popular? Do people laugh whenever you make a joke, even if it isn't funny? and if you are popular, would you say it dosen't go to your head?

[Mr. Smithers]

I wasn't really "popular". There weren't really popular kids at my school.

I hung out with people that were considered "cool", and I regret doing that, because they weren't nice people, but there wasn't any popular kids. There is no such thing as popular. Some people are just more well known than yourself.

[Cats In Space]

I'm popular I guess. Everyone in the grade knows who I am, people fake laughs even if I know I make a bad joke, and people always try to hang out around me. Unlike most people though, I don't care if I'm popular or not, I just want to go home and play Xbox Live and Steam.

[deadpie]

Well I'm popular, because their is only forty two people in my school. When I was in regular school, I was mid tier popular because I was the guy you got "stuff" from, and I set parties for allot of people.

Not all popular people are assholes. Not all popular people are "preps" and "jocks" actually. And if you got to know some of those popular people and approach them in the right way, they can show you into some people.

But then again, popularity isn't that important. Really, I don't like people who think they need people around them 24/7 or they'll die somehow. It's very important to understand that after high school, most of your friends will be somewhere else. So that's why those types of popular kids end up being such loosers, because they've never known how to live alone.

Whatevah, just talking.

[Zephyr]

The school I went to, social groups didn't really exist unless you tried to alienate yourself. Besides the few bad apples and the 'non-conformists', things were pretty good. Everybody was friendly as long as you were nice to them. I wasn't 'popular' in highschool in the sense that I only had one or two friends that were actually in school, all of my friends were older. I didn't care though. The quality of my friendships were much better than a lot of other people's.

[Zero Beat]

Im not popular, nor do i want to be. Too much work, plus gay guys are never popular. :P

[INFERNO]

I suppose I was in the middle, I was with some who were popular and some who weren't, could easily get with popular ones (or vice-verca) but the majority of my friends were the less popular ones. It wasn't that I disliked the popular kids but rather that many would take the easy, artsy classes and not the sciences I was interested in, wouldn't rationally think things through and analyze the components and the sum of the components, and many (not all) focused on their superficial appearance. Some told me what I wore wasn't "good-looking" but the fact I went to a private school for most of high-school ensured we wore some of the same clothing and we paid extra to learn, not to look good.

In other grades, I was in the more popular crowd and I found some of the popular kids I didn't like while others I did. I even tried to pretend to act like them and one teacher asked me why I was purposely being foolish, which after asking a bunch of times, got me thinking again and realizing I was idiotic.

So, point is, yes popularity can go to one's head but I think generalizing that one hates all popular kids may be false because especially at the "deeper levels", you'll find who the "followers" are versus who the truly "popular" ones are. There tends to be a difference between them, just need to spot it.

[karl]

I'm a bit 'popular' coz I speak English, and a lot of the guys want to know what the words of some songs mean. If it wasn't for that, I'd just be another kid among all the others.

[Severus Snape]

I just try to ignore them to the best of my ability. As long as they don't bother me I don't mind them too much.

[Camazotz]

It's not the popularity of a person that bothers me, it's their attitude and how they treat people. Some people act higher than others because of their looks, their intelligence, their possessions, etc. This is more common among "popular" kids, but it's found throughout all groups, probably to reassure themselves that they aren't average and are better than the rest of society. This arrogance is what bothers me, and is surprisingly found throughout "unpopular" kids as well, just not as much.