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Is Their A 'recipe' For Being Popular?
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Some people tend to be popular whatever they do, and others are unpopular despite trying their hardest to be 'likeable'. On a newsgroup years ago there was a guy who did some stupid things , wound people up, even brought the NG to a halt with some technical thing he did -yet he remained 'popular' -a 'cheeky rogue'. On the same NG was someone who tried to be polite, helpful (not me I was a right bag) and was constantly being nit-picked on. I've found the same in real life -the popular girls at school were often tear-a ways, bitchy and clique while the nice quiet ones (yes ok me this time) were left out on the edge of social circles. So -what makes someone popular?
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I can make myself popular, because I have done so as a sort of social experiment. What worked for me was to be very 'bright', very positive, very chatty, very complimentar y of people and their stuff and to enthuse endlessly about whatever it was that they were interested in, even though it bored me rigid. I was never negative about either myself, anyone else, or...
13:45 Fri 15th Aug 2014