Think about it for a minute. Everything, both good and bad about high school moves forward with you in life
growing and
morphing to either become
more or
less important.
You go to high school. You have your
populars, your
weirds, your
geeks, your
jocks, your
sluts all divided into little
entities. You have
rumors and
sadness and
friends and
good times.
Everyone is pretty
silly, but hey -- it's high school after all.
Flash forward to college. You still have sluts, jocks, geeks, and weirds, only now everyone is a little
popular within their own group. You've managed to somehow take the bad of high school and make it a little less bad, while at the same time, making the good a little better (
beer and
drugs help).
Flash forward to the office. The office sees all of the bad of high school
magnified. Why? Because people have even less of a life now than they ever had. Instead of
cligues, you now have your
warring factions in the workplace. You still have your geeks, weirds, jocks, and sluts. Except now, instead of populars, you have
managers who get promoted because of
good hair.
Finally, the high school resurfaces in a new and improved element in the form of
online communities like
E2.I love the concept of this
site, but we still have a lot of the bad things most of us would like to leave back in high school.
<rant>
The whole datagirl ordeal makes me sick.
I can't even understand how, with so many smart people hanging here something like this
could happen. Let everyone do their thing.
</rant>
If you have a problem with a user, keep it to yourself. If you don't like a
node,
vote it down. If you do like a node,
cool it or
vote it up. I don't have many
friends here- I may say something in the
Chatterbox from time to time, but for the most part, I just keep quiet, node, read other's nodes, and vote. Here, instead of jocks, we have
comedians. We're all weirds and we're all geeks. These are all good. The populars are now called
M-Noders (which is another
good thing). But, in the place of sluts, we now have
XP Whores. Let's work on improving the good and getting rid some of the bad. It's our community and up to us to shape.
See Also: Everything High School for a
who's who in our
senior class.