Dorks, Nerds, Populars, and Poseurs: The Teenage Food Chain

Throughout my life, I have never been in the "popular" crowd. I'm okay with that. To me, the social status of "popular" is superficial. In the in-crowd, you live to please others. Your popularity depends on the people you know, not your personality or how many friends you have. You don't care about grades, but you would get an A+ in gossip and sticking your nose in other people's business. These aren't our future scientists, or doctors, or CEO s of major companies. As illustrated in 13 Going On 30, those who were once popular grow up to be nobodies. In other words, I'm happy to be a dork. In my words, here are the definitions of the terms listed above (title):

Dork: Me. Dorks are considered "weird" and "uncool" by society. They enjoy activities that are unusual to others. Appearance wise, they generally wear clothes that aren't name brands and their clothing choices may be subject to ridicule. I give huge, giant high 5 (hypothetically) to all the dorks out there for being different and not caring what others say!

Nerd: Me (I guess I'm some sort of hybrid then; a nork!). Nerds happen to be very intelligent and usually enjoy things like science, math, and/or reading. Most nerds have glasses (I have them but usually wear contacts) and are due to stereotypes are usually thought of having the appearance of Steve Urkel (It's a stereotype, I don't look like that =D). To all the nerds, embrace your nerdiness and be yourself!

Popular: The in-crowd. Everyone knows who they are. They live a life in the fish bowl; everybody knows what they're doing at all times. These are the beautiful people who everyone wants to be. They only shop brand names (and wouldn't be caught dead in Walmart) and manage to always have perfect skin, perfect hair, and the perfect body. They tend to be jerks, and are known for talking behind your back. One of their main talents is pretending to be your friend, when really they don't care about you at all. They wouldn't dare do something abnormal, because their status depends on what others think. They are the first to get a boyfriend/girlfriend, get invited to all the parties, and seem to always have a group of followers with them. To all the populars, I say "GET A LIFE!!!" because in 10 years no one is going to care anymore.

Poseurs: These are the people who think they're cool, or on the flip-side, a dork and/or nerd (You know what I'm talking about. Dork Poseurs are the wearers-of-Clark Kent glasses-even-if-they-don't-actually-need-glasses-Hello Kitty-merchandise-wearing fakes where being a dork is just a trend and in a month they'll move on). They are HUGE jerks (even bigger than the real populars) and tend to stalk populars. They will do anything to please the populars and tend to be huge showoffs. To the poseurs, I say "Poseurs=Losers".

This post was a bit long, and obviously I haven't discussed all of the social statuses (believe me, there are a lot more) but after several recent encounters with poseurs, I had to get the word out. So that's all for today. It doesn't matter how cool you are, just remember to be yourself and don't spend your life trying to please everyone!

Chomh fada (and pogue mahone to all the poseurs and populars out there ;D),

Kacey