Trends.

Starfish

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If you do, why follow trends? I see a trend on the BB arise every now and again, and all over the place, but here is as good a place as any, usually better, so hey, why not ask about it?

Now, don't let my thread here confuse you. I am not inferring that trends are bad. I am just wondering why others follow them. I already know why those who do not refrain from it, often run like hell from them, but I am not familiar with the other side of the coin.


Enlighten me.
 
ok

To fit in even if they don't......also to be up to date with respect to style in clothes.
 
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Tim1 said:
also to be up to date with respect to style in clothes.

I don't think my style of dress has changed all that much since I left my punk-ness behind... I'm a denim and flannel kind of girl 90% of the time.

I'm rarely even aware of trends, and if I am, I usually don't 'get' them... speaking of which, can someone explain this hair that it seems most girls under 25 are wearing? The longer and well groomed in front and sticking up all over the place in back? Looks like some serious bed head... and yes, this is coming from a woman who used to have a mostly shaved head with the remaining hair dyed cherry red... :)

but I digress... could you enlighten me a bit Starfish? Which board trends are you referring to... might help me figure out if I follow them.
 
Actually I am looking for more specific conception of personal reasons.

I would think that each person would have difference in their reasons.

Alright, I know that this one girl that used to live near me started to do herion because it had become a widely available trend, but her personal reasons were things like major self confidence issues, boredom, a need for drama in her life.


I am not turned off by your input Tim, as I appreciate it, but I want personal reasons.

Not too many people are going to come forward about this, I feel, but there is always unregistered.

I want to think that it isn't always for bad reasons that people want to be apart of the group.
 
I never have been one the follow trends. I was my own person; well, actually, it probably had more to do with someone "dictating" to me what I should be doing. I'm not one to take orders well.
Now, as the mother of a 13 year old girl, I can see her want of acceptance, but more, a distaste for being the "odd" one, feeling that she doesn't fit in with the crowd. Botton line, I think it's the crowd thing-don't draw attention to me; I'm part of the mass of humanity...:)
 
PCG is her own woman. I like that.

We have many original people here. Even they follow an occaisonal trend. So I figure there is something deeper than the superficiality of just wanting to fit in, as being a cause for some.

There was the dollie trend, the political era, the current 'humor' era, the era of 'doom' (Ravenloft's reign), the current era of the personal AV, and so forth.

As you see, not all trends are for bad reasons. There are more reasons, I know it. I want to know why. I am a root picker. Feed me.

Current trend I am about to follow: Glitter eye makeup and fake crystal eyelashes. (I am trying to find out about ingredients before I buy). Why? For me, it is because I can't wear makeup, and I get bored with my face. I want pinache. I want snazz now and again. I just get bored. I have the self confidence to go days and days feeling really good about my looks, without that crap to know I don't need it. I just want to play. The fact that those products are a trend, make it so they are available to me. Without the trend, I don't know who easy it would be to get them.
 
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I don't respond much to peer pressure, so I'm lost to that type reasoning, but basiclly, you respond to your surroundings. So say, the Backstreet Boys were a trend...you her it on the radio, you can't turn the station every time, you get used to it. Of course, I usually listen to stations that don't play that sort of music, but you get the point. On the BB, we have certain recurring thoughts that tend to create trends. You can respond, or avoid them, but often, these thread can mostly what's there, meaning the Board becomes less interesting if you avoid them...
Just a thought.
 
Oh my gosh, that is Quite Cool, Quiet Cool! :D

That is a good point about the effects of trends on those who don't participate in them.

I believe there is a fine line between accepting boredom and actually making your own fun then, though.

Laurel once made the perfect point that if you get bored, it is really your own fault. This is so true to me, but I can now see that a mass amount of something you don't like can really gag one into mental suffocation.
 
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hiya babe :D

I think bb trends aren't done on purpose.. like you said, (for example) there was the political threads that were around for a long long looooong time.. that I personally find boring.. and when someone comes along and post some humorous threads, I find them a relief and tend to post on those, whereas I wouldn't post at all on those durn political threads.

Every member has there own preference and style.. if you notice, with the political threads, it's usually the same people posting.. when those threads grown old and moldy, here comes another specific group of people posting on a different subject.

It's all about change baby, and change is GOOD. ;)


BTW, about the self-av's.. I've ALWAYS been myself in my av's.. I don't follow trends. But, it's nice to finally see who's who around here.. we've got some gorgeous people here at Lit.. and their av's definiely prove that. (Now, someone kick cheffie's cyber butt and make him use the av I made for him.. he's a damn hottie!)
 
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I agree, especially about the personal av's, but those are great points about trends that happen here. It seems that niches get developed more out of personal intrests, than a whole mass of constantly rotating ideals to fit in.

I will say that I love this av of yours. I liked the last one too. Both are stunning. This shows a side of you that I know I love already.
 
aww :eek: thank you fishie...

lol, but this is my 'nerdy' av, nothing stunning here..
 
lickerish said:
aww :eek: thank you fishie...

lol, but this is my 'nerdy' av, nothing stunning here..

Oh, I don't know... i love that av!

I fell onto the real life av bandwagon for awhile, mostly because everyone else was doing it and I felt like throwing myself into the pot. *shrug* So I guess I occasionally follow trends. I'd go back to a real one if I could find a pic I actually liked.

As far as other trends, I think QC makes a very valid point. I never listened to country music, was a Rollins and Social Distortion girl... until I moved here. I was inundated with country, no one (it seems) listens to anything else... and now, 3 years later, my CD changer is a mix of REM, Rollins, SD, Toby Keith, Alan Jackson, and Garth... I'm musically schizophrenic! :D

Clothing trends bcome hard NOT to follow... styles change and it becomes impossible to find what you were comfortable wearing. I spend a lot of time shopping thrift stores for jeans that aren't low rise wide legged and flower embroidered... not that there's anything wrong with those, they're just not the everyday me.
 
lickerish said:
aww :eek: thank you fishie...

lol, but this is my 'nerdy' av, nothing stunning here..

I think your AV is very attractive.

At first Starfish, I didn't understand what you were talking about, trends... what about them?

I don't start a lot of threads. I respond to the ones that are there. So I follow the trends in that respect. AVs. I would rather pick one for myself that makes me feel comfortable. Be it me, or Teddy Bear. Not a cartoon or fantasy AV. I am not a dragon slayer or jet pilot, whatever.

I will say that like you, I notice when things become a trend. Thank you for not picking on Tim1.

Teach.
 
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