Is it normal to be used by a 'popular' person?

I wonder how people think of "them" as popular. Usually, when a group of people are popular, they're hated. It totally contradicts the popular thing.

Yes. I was used by this really popular girl back in the private school I went to. (And actually, I'm not 100% sure if she would say she was using me. But I remember her not bidding me the time of day before until this one special day when she did!) Strange part is, I think her first intention was to use me for the time being, but her plan kinda crumpled, and we ended up getting really close, and became the best of friends. I was shocked at the time that I was actually liked by her. I honestly thought she wouldn't like me. But we had sleepovers, trips together, we went shopping together, we became inseparable! We were best friends! We had inside jokes, we were completely comfortable in front of each other with any secret, and we were fine with belching in front of each other and all of that blah. We crushed on the same guys, went to the same parties(which were usually like pool parties), and our families even became somewhat tight.

And it was all really crazy and unexpected because it was kinda like, total opposites actually managing to scrape up a few common interests, or like two people from completely two different worlds who never would've imagined being over at each others houses eating popcorn on their living room couch while watching a movie together, to literally just that happening! I ended up being totally different from what she imagined, and she ended up being totally different from what I imagined.

How it started: We had a tiny class, and her group of friends who were, "the most popular girls" in the class and school, ended up slowly wasting away until there was really nobody of the popular group of girls left except her. And I don't mean they died, but their parents either had to move because of the careers they had, or the girls were just leaving the school b/c they couldn't afford it anymore. Stuff like that. Well, me and my group(Aha!It was like the 3 of us! haha!) was her last resort.(In the classroom.) So she approached us... kinda like a little lost puppy on a persons door step saying, "let me in". So we kinda just welcomed her. We all were kinda aware though that probably the only reason she decided to come to us at the time was b/c her friends were gone. But I think we all later realized that what was meant to be was meant to be, and we were meant to become the best of friends. I guarantee that if all that never happened(her friends leaving) we wouldv'e never talked at all. I wouldn't have had so many great times with her. She would've never found out about the real me, and I would've never found about the real her.

Popular people have to use at least one person every two years in order to maintain their title and keep their membership in the club. It's all explained in the official handbook. You can check it out online.

Yeah, it happens. Don't think it's confined to school, though. I got used by two ladies who were thirty years older than me in two separate incidents.

It wasn't so much the act of being used that upset me, it was that I didn't understand it was happening. It wouldn't happen now. I generally know full well what's going on in any situation. There are probably people who think they are using me, but they're doing nothing I'm not prepared to let them do. And I'm also watching them more closely than I would have been otherwise.

When I was in school I ATE popular kids.

"Popular" people aren't worth the time of day unless they are a truly genuine person. You can tell if they are genuine because usually popular people get to be popular by being outgoing. Those who make you feel welcome and easy to talk to when they talk to you are the genuine ones. But, at least where I come from, they're not usually that way. With power comes responsibility, and those who are popular do not have the skills to use that power kindly or responsibly. This is because "popular" people are mostly adolescents.

Happened to me at school. My dad owned a shop. And theese girls that i was prwetty sure had hated before they had known that fact told me randomly one day that the three of them wanted to b four but they had been waiting for somone speacial like me to be their freind and that i was like their sister when they had known me for a week. the speech was really creepy :/ Then they started asking me to get them stuff for free from the shop and they started picking on me when i wouldn't. I

In another school I went to, one dude used me for money. But he wasn't really "popular", he was just a drug addict.

People use people all the time, and it sucks!

*well

yeah this one girl tryed to be nice to me so id help her cheat didnt work though