Is Their A 'recipe' For Being Popular?

Retrochic | 20:43 Thu 14th Aug 2014 | ChatterBank

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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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kvalidir

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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 complimentary 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...

14:45 Fri 15th Aug 2014

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Retrochic

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jennyjoan this was an academic post about the secret ingredient to being 'popular'. I'm not wishing or trying to become popular, in fact from what kvalidir has said about her experiment its too much like hard work.

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