Okay this thread has to do with popularity... otherwise known as the "teenage" food-chain. If you ever saw a thread about a girl named Melanie Wells... this includes her. Okay here's the story: One day I was texting Melanie, and then her mom started looking at her messages. She (Melanie) was irritating me; and maybe I shouldn't have said some things. I thought we had it all worked out... but then she started acting inappropriately. She called me some names and told me that I was being a jerk, and then she started leaving nasty messages. Then her mom got involved. Well, her mom told me that I had best stop texting her and that I wasn't going to talk to her unless I wanted to be friends again. After that, I decided to come clean to my mom. Well before in doing so, I accidentally deleted my messages and the voice message. My mom was like: "How convenient!" And then I told her what happened and I got grounded from my phone. Today's story: Well, Melanie decided that she and this girl named Alexis Morgan were going to dress alike and wear the same outfits. They did, and it looked quite stupid. Well, before I knew it all the preppy girls were surrounding them. Melanie was mad at me and decided to show off her popularity (for a day) and sit close to me. I just ignored her and moved on. I had four people sitting by me and I was perfectly fine. Also yesterday I was throwing up, so I'm really disappointed my sickness didn't go all over her. I would've been happy. But, then again, that's kind-of bad. But also acting like a snob is not going to get her anywhere. And I know that. She's just jealous of me because people think she's 7 or 8 years old, and people think that I'm 13 or 14. And she's older than me. She sure knows how to act her age, right? Sorry it's so long. :dry:

Well . . . Honestly, popularity may seem like the best thing in the world, but it's not. It also may seem important. It's not. Proving popularity is just stirring up trouble. Arguing with her is going to get you nowhere. It sounds like you are trying to make yourself look like the better person, as Tabie said, but honestly, nothing that you said you've done is putting you out on top. Wishing that you would have barfed on her was not mature in the least bit. Calling her names was not mature either. I'm not saying that she is doing anything better than you, because she really isn't, but you're not doing anything to help the situation either. What you should do is act about it in a mature manner. When I have disagreements with my friends, we usually (notice I said usually, we aren't always like this) talk it out, tell eachother why we disagree, apologize, then plan a sleepover or something. I'm not saying that that is exactly how you should handle it, but it's an idea. Trust me, things would go a whole lot better if you would all be a little more mature about things. And on the subject of maturity, I know that I've probably made it sound like I'm calling you immature, but I didn't mean it that way. I'm just saying that you're not being mature about this particular situation. You are actually pretty mature, from what I've read in most of your posts.:)

[b]NinjaUnicorn wrote:[/b] [quote]Well . . . Honestly, popularity may seem like the best thing in the world, but it's not. It also may seem important. It's not. Proving popularity is just stirring up trouble. Arguing with her is going to get you nowhere. It sounds like you are trying to make yourself look like the better person, as Tabie said, but honestly, nothing that you said you've done is putting you out on top. Wishing that you would have barfed on her was not mature in the least bit. Calling her names was not mature either. I'm not saying that she is doing anything better than you, because she really isn't, but you're not doing anything to help the situation either. What you should do is act about it in a mature manner. When I have disagreements with my friends, we usually (notice I said usually, we aren't always like this) talk it out, tell eachother why we disagree, apologize, then plan a sleepover or something. I'm not saying that that is exactly how you should handle it, but it's an idea. Trust me, things would go a whole lot better if you would all be a little more mature about things. And on the subject of maturity, I know that I've probably made it sound like I'm calling you immature, but I didn't mean it that way. I'm just saying that you're not being mature about this particular situation. You are actually pretty mature, from what I've read in most of your posts.:)[/quote] Did you not see me say "it's kind-of bad"? Anyway: Thank-you for the compliment. But the reason I posted this thread was because I'm not "popular", it's because I just can't bottle it up inside for any much longer about how much it irritates me. Again, I'm not trying to come off as rude; but sometimes you may have to re-read someone else's message.

[b]beicountrified wrote:[/b] [quote]sometimes you may have to re-read someone else's message.[/quote] ;)

Now, no more epic wins. Back to business. Bonnie- You may think that you don't retaliate, but you really do. You came in here and posted, and I know you're getting some advice that you don't want, but that's part of it. When you come into a forum and post, you are going to get mixed opinions. You can take the advice or you can leave it, but it is going to do you any good to argue with it. It's not going to accomplish anything except annoying everyone here. I have posted my advice. I am not going to argue with you over it and I am not going to change my opinion. Everyone in here is trying to help you, and all you're doing is misquoting us and making us look bad. I am sorry you are not getting the advice you want, but that's just how it is. Sometimes the right thing to do isn't always the most fun thing to do. *shrug* Honestly, though, you will get more help if you cooperate and act a little nicer to us all.