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Popularity: Important Or Not? | |
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It is important to have social acceptance and is healthy to have a strong family/friend network
Popularity for the sake of being popular by having "followers" on social media in particular - worthless
Is it worth being popular at the expense of forgoing your own values? ~Shakalaka!~..... ~Mayday!~ | |
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Depends on the person's values. For me, I've always been content with a small and close circle of family and friends. I don't need to be rolling in a group 10 deep to feel important and never needed to. It also helps knowing the difference between real friends and having acquaintences. As far as social media goes, I value privacy over popularity. People are free to do what they want, but those who feel the need to post pics every 5 minutes of what they are doing, from which island they are vacationing at to which fast food drive thru they are ordering from, is pretty pathetic. [Edited 10/13/16 5:26am] I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince. | |
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Same here...the less people in my life, the happier I am. | |
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No. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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its not... | |
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missfee said: Depends on the person's values. For me, I've always been content with a small and close circle of family and friends. I don't need to be rolling in a group 10 deep to feel important and never needed to. It also helps knowing the difference between real friends and having acquaintences. As far as social media goes, I value privacy over popularity. People are free to do what they want, but those who feel the need to post pics every 5 minutes of what they are doing, from which island they are vacationing at to which fast food drive thru they are ordering from, is pretty pathetic. [Edited 10/13/16 5:26am] I definitely agree with you. Erin Smith | |
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It will make you a dolt like Trump. Low horizons. To see the rainbows you have to climb.
"Capitalism around Culture is a death curse." Henry Giroux. All you others say Hell Yea!! | |
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Out of control capitalism is a death curse... "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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It depends on the goal. In politics and business, popularity is pretty important. Or if one is emotionally needy, I guess. Otherwise nah. Murica: at least it's not Sudan. | |
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As important as a perfect tan | |
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approval from others is the air that i breathe | |
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This. Age is a factor too - Up until a certain age children / young adults care very much about wanting others to like them and how popular they are. Most, but certainly not all, of us care far less about social acceptance and popularity as we age and make deeper connections with a small group of people who care deeply for us and who, in turn, we care deeply about. | |
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To an extent.
And our views on the anonymous forum provide a form of social validation – no matter how much we have personal physical deep connections….
But why are we posting here anonymously?
Who looks at the threads they posted…or indeed the posts replied?
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I still disagree, at least applying it to me. I've been here for 11 or 12 years or so, and I have not formed a single offsite friendship or personal relationship with anyone here. I come here solely for my own entertainment, same reason I might cruise news sites or imgur or any number of other places I haunt but don't make friends. Social acceptance is not a factor in the least. It is entirely possible I am a little dead inside. It could also be my idgaf age. However, I own and operate a successful service oriented business. Its popularity and my professional reputation matter a lot to me. I behave and carry myself a certain way publicly because of that, not because I need any personal validation. I just like not being homeless or hungry. Murica: at least it's not Sudan. | |
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I suppose the short answer to the original question is that it's subjective and personal. For me, popularity is unimportant beyond my professional reputation. Murica: at least it's not Sudan. | |
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~Shakalaka!~..... ~Mayday!~ | |
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I love imgur.com :-) I do not disagree that a certain level of social acceptance is necessary for efficiently navigating society. It benefits me to not smell like a wart hog or completely ostracize those in my community by behaving in a way that would make people avoid me completely. Being able to shop, eat, and just freely move about society benefits me. I do not equate social acceptance with popularity, though, at least not on a basic level. Having society accept me is pretty beneficial. Having society like me or any sense of personal validation is not something I crave. Murica: at least it's not Sudan. | |
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I like this very much HF - it is beautiful ~Shakalaka!~..... ~Mayday!~ | |
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