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more about #friendswithbenefits Thus Spake KATE!: i went to an arts high school where even the popular kids would have gotten beat up had they attended regular public high school. more » whynotshesaid: Well, if by healthier you mean "more of an tanorexic alcoholic," then sure. more » AmericanSplendor: I'd rather be slightly emotionally fucked up and smart than well adjusted and dumb. Let's be honest here, the popular kids at my high school weren't ... more » Uncommon Whore: Yeah, well maybe high schoolers in Sweden aren't such assholes. more » CherriSpryte: Great, now I have to go on Facebook and see if the popular girls from high school are better than me or not! more » Shamrockette: That might be the case for some popular people, but the ones that I went to school with are probably permanently fucked from binge drinking in middle ... more » Skellatrix: I probably won't get over the fact that I was beaten by a Popular with no artistic ability for "Most Artistic." She was a sweetheart, though, so I can... more » tankearae: Me in high school: Angry cynic who was as mean to the popular kids as they sometimes tried to be to me (though they usually just ignored me.) Think Li... more » I believe in peace, bitch: The popular kids from my high school all married eachother and--I kid you not--the six most popular girls from my class all bought houses within two b... more » Lady Skittlehattington: I did my own study on this, and I discovered that the popular people from my class are all 50 pounds overweight and drive minivans. more » TurtleWexlerKickedMe: You know, sometimes people are popular in high school for pretty valid reasons. This doesn't surprise me in the least. more » Erda: "Happy" doesn't necessarily mean "successful" though. A lot of people who never leave their hometowns and work fairly simple jobs seem to be happy; a... more » colormeroutine: We didn't have "popular" kids in my high school. There were just too damn many of us for anyone to have any level of importance; no one knew who anyon... more » EarlyGrey: I went to a huge high school so we had a few different popular groups. The athletes, the pretty, smart "school leaders," the rich kids. But I think fo... more » MizJenkins: Twelve years out of high school (the one that the high school in Mean Girls was based on - it was shot at our rival school but used our school's color... more » elliebean: I feel like it would depend on why you were popular and what you had going for you at the time. There were a lot of popular kids in my school who were... more » DaniFae: Anyone think this might have something to do with money? I know in my school the "popular" kids were all from upper middle class or better households.... more » Skellatrix: Well, I wasn't popular in high school but then I invented Post-It Notes, so. more » victoriasauce: Ugh. Do we have to make this a "whatever! the popular kids from my school are losers working at walmart and im so much better!" thread? It's like when... more » futuremouse: Unless they went to highschool with Liz Lemon. Then they just have years of therapy ahead of them. more » -
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Popularity Contests
Even post-high school, the popular kids continue to come out on top: They are more likely to grow up to be healthy adults than their peers with fewer friends and less social status, according to a Swedish study. [Reuters] -
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Are You Addicted To Friendahol?
Apropos of a new study showing that people with more school friends make more money, Meghan Daum has a jargon-y trend piece in the LA Times about an addiction she dubs "friendaholism." More »
