Careful, my ego is sitting there! :P

I don't think I am popular, at least not in the positive sense. I have written posts forgetting that someone who has no idea who I am. So I try to post as though it is my first post, but I am not so good at it...lol

rotflmao your asking me? The Queen of narcissism? Honey I am continually having to reign in my ego. I am not sure popularity has alot to do with my ego, rather then the small groups of friends I have in any one place, delight in my company. I don't need hundreds of friends. I need and want the approval of the close ones that I love. It is very important to me. In every avenue of my life, off line, online, work, my child's school what ever social circle I find myself in. I am ferociously loyal and loving and I expect as much from the people I call my own.... LMAO yep Some ego I have :))

I guess that's why I use Mylot as part therapy because I know that I am very much liked and that makes me feel good, you know it does wonders for my poor self-esteem and confidence which were ripped apart by my ex. Knowing that I have a lot of friends and sisters here to love me, support me, offer advice and guidance totally unconditionally fills me with wonder, hope and yes my ego does go high because of the incredible responses I get to all my discussions. I am a very very lucky guy and knowing this, knowing that I am popular has helped me back onto the road to recovery. It is the only place that I am popular and the only place that helps me to get over my depression xx

I do sometimes have a big ego. But I never really noticed it. Too busy having the big head to notice. LOL But it is funny that you make mention of this cause lately I have seen many discussions in relation to other discussions and I have no idea what is going on. I haven't been able to spend too much time on here lately and it has gotten hard to try to figure out the whole scoop cause people just assume I have read every post. You haven't been the only one to do this lately at all. Hope all is well with your son! Vicki

I was popular in high school and college- the first time and honestly I wish I hadn't been. It took too much energy to be someone I wasn't. Now I could care less..I have my good friends and they know me for who Iam and those are the important ones. Here on mylot I have some great friends too and if others like what I have to say that's cool too. The one plus is that for people like us who post so personally, our mylot friends get to know the real us.. They even still like us, so being popular here is a great thing! :)

I think that we all enjoy being appreciated, me especially, after all I am so wonderful (no, I meant to say a conceited, arrogant little squirt). I think that we all choose who we are and what we are like. I am quite gregarious on here, but in real life, whilst I have quite a lot of friends, I like to meet them in small groups. I am quite softly spoken and struggle to get a word in edgeways in a group. Plus, I am sure that I am going a bit deaf, my lower range hearing is definitely not what it was. My 50th is coming up and whilst my friends want a party, I would rather have a small dinner party. It may be my birthday but I know how it will end up. Party Party Party. (No, do not feel sorry for me. I should be more assertive). So, do I let my ego roam free occasionally. Sure do. That's one of the reasons that I like myLot so much.

I too have a giant sized ego when it comes to my work. But in this Discussion forum I naturally assume that unless I am descriptive in my discussions people cannot answer me. That is the way I talk too. After all I cannot take people for granted and every individual has one's own work to do than remember me. This is a contradiction to my otherwise strong ego.

haha i am the oppisite! I think that people wont remember anything about what i've said in other discussions, so if i make a discussion that is similar or about the same thing again, i'll explain it all over agian, or i'll repeat information, i think taht is pretty annoying to some people too, but i feel like there are so many people here, if i type up only half the story expecting people to already know or remember the other half, its pretty presumptious and i might not get the responses i was looking for!! but i can see how you would do it, cause after a while of being here.. it does seem like its mostly the same friends that reply to dyour discussions most of the time isn't it!? Good luck with your ego lecanis, maybe you could share some of it with me and then we'll both be evened out ;)

I admit it, I love doing the weirdest, wildest thing I can think of doing or saying and seeing how quickly my reputation spreads or how it's affected. Both online and off. And while I admit, I get minimal popularity, it's my own smallchunk. I don't often think about it, or for any longer than three minutes. But it is something I tend to do, purposefully. Mostly because it's interesting. Because it amuses me...and I am a studier of trends, of people in general. So...maybe it needs more of a small shed than a whole room for itself lol.

Yes, Hon, I do and I know just what you mean! By the way, you ARE quite popular and may I add rather "famous" here on myLot, at least within what I think of as our little circle. By that I mean there are a number of my friends here, you included of course, and others like Pye, Oreo, Gabs and Worldwise1 and many more who seem to meet quite often in our discussions so I know just what you mean about how we probably all find ourselves assuming everyone knows us. As for our egos, I think we all need to let our ego get big enough to fill its own room now and then, don't you? I don't mean in a disgustingly conceited, self-centered way but to feel confident in who we are and in knowing our friends know us and accept us for just that. Once more, you are popular here on myLot and anyone who doesn't agree with me, well tough ti++ies for them! Annie

hehe.. this is funny. I too have the opinion that people reading 'your' discussions actually 'know you' and by you I mean only you - Lecanis. In fact, I had the habit of reading every post before I put down my thoughts. I'm saying I had because I found that this habit stopped me from responding to any discussions if I found people that had the same ideas. I was like 'Hmm.. somebody already said what I wanted to.. why should I bother saying that again'. Coming to the point, usually I find that when people respond to your discussions they know quite a lot about your situation and actually ask you about something you have not written about in that discussion. But occasionally, there have been a few(newbies I think) that don't know you and that shows in their response and I'm like 'how come they don't know Lecanis'? And then I find out they are new and then I understand. So, I think you are really popular here in Mylot and you don't need to think that you are not. And I think it's rather annoying if you have to say everything about yourself in every little discussion you start... That's not possible... Go on and be what you are.. BTW, I hope you are doing better now(about your coughing blood, I mean).

You are popular, my friend, lecanis! And, you have definitely earned it!:-) I may not respond to all of your discussions but I do read most, if not all, of them just to have updates about a friend and to rate, which I also do with many of my other friends here. So, I don’t normally get lost even if you are referencing an older discussion and not giving full information. A very few times, I have felt a little ignorance at my part but that mainly had to do with those discussion which you started during my own long absence from here. I,…I don’t feel like being popular here. There are some disadvantages to being popular which I can’t afford personally, so I try to keep a low profile, at least in my own perception. I do have my own little ego though, everyone has, but it is not linked with popularity. My ego is for myself, for the most part, in the sense that I like to be satisfied with myself, no matter how others think or perceive me. I like to write and I like to like my own writing, LOL! Even though, I always find it lacking in one area or another. But then, nothing is perfect and one should keep improving!

Well I don't know if it's an inflated ego with me but I would like to think I'm popular at least with my friends here, but lots of times when I make discussions here of some aspect of my life I'm going through, whether bad or good, I tend to give a recap background info just in case someone "new" comes along and doesn't know me well

The thing I find is no one knows me here, and how can they. I am new and the things I write about aren't always about who I really am. I can't show my giving nature by helping everyone out here. People can't see the lear i give when I read something that I don't agree with. No one really knows the true you when they are on the internet I guess that is what people find so comforting.