I am a cheerleader at my school and it seems like I am popular to people who aren't but I'm miserable with my "group". It's not just mine, but all the "popular" ones. I don't want to be a nerd, but want to change friends; it's harder than it sounds. I hate the stereotype I get for being a cheerleader, I'm actually really smart and don't have the cookie-cutter life everyone thinks. I think the "nerds" are the coolest people actually because even though they get made fun of, they are the ones who are actually happy; living life like a teenager should. And in the end, it's them that are going to be the successful ones in life; the people the "poopular" kids will envy.

I'm proud I'm not popular. I'm proud to be a free-thinker. I'm happy being original and having original, fun friends.

sorry not ur show...but ur mag!! lol

Hey Tyra! i just wanted to say that i am a part of a clique, and alot of people say that we are mean and creul...but not all of us, i am kind of what they call the "leader" of my clique in highschool, and all the people are just going too obsessive in joining the group, that when we just dont add them as a part of us...they think we are mean and creul. us cliques are just a normal group of people that happened to be so popular because of our siblings, or parents...and the other people just made us a big deal!!! anyways as i would like to tell everyone, we are not mean, we are just really close friends. LOVE YOUR SHOW!!!

With cliques, it's complicated. Im pretty sure any teen could tell you that though. Im in my freshman year at highschool and cliques arent that big of a thing at my school but people who hangout together only hangout with people there alike. That's not wrong but people are so judgemental that its hard to fit in. Im not like anyone at my school. Of course I have things in common with people but they never really want to accept you for you. So instead of being yourself people act like different people completely! It gets on my nerves so much because I get driscriminated almost everyday for being myself but I know ill get far in life because im different and that i can fend for myself, but what are those girls and boys going to do when there out of highschool? Are they going to act like themselves, or the people they hangout with? It makes me wonder why do they get influenced to do this?

hey tyra.! i absolutely love your show. i watch it everyday.i am in high school and my school has all cliques, but not the normal clicks like the jocks and cheerleaders, but we have like all talk to each other, but it steal feel like clicks though. i have been teased by all groups of boys in a clique b4 and it hurt because i liked one of the boys. i feel that being popular is a waste of energy. just because your rich or your pretty doesnt mean your popular. people may use you for your popularity. i would rather be a nobody than be popular

Hey Tyra , Im in middle school ( 8th grade ) and I do see cliques . The people who have more money than others all hang out . The people who love Science hangs out . And the people who speak another language hang out. The people who skateboard hangs out . I am the down to Earth type of girl who loves to talk to all of these kinds of people . I've been labeled Emo(because I used to cut myself). I've been labeled RICH . I've been labeled a nerd . I am none of these things . I am Aiyanna Washington . I feel that everyone is different no matter how the same we think they are. Everyone sees things differently and have their own flare of how they think they should look, act, or listen to be (Emo, Goth, Scene, Sassy, Preppy, Chiq, etc. ) If I cut myself that doesn't make me EMO . If I play Basketball that doesn't make me a tone boy. If I painted my nails black that doesn't make me ( Emo, Goth, Scene ) . If I love Science that doesn't make me a nerd . PEOPlE of AMERiCA , you are who you say you are .

what is popular? some say its being beautiful, being rich, having tons of friends, hanging out with hot boys, usually cheerleader, and they are usually mean and snobbish right? I think this is so disgusting. Being popular does not mean you are mean, and rich. Being popular should be someone who is a leader and people look up to, they have a lot of friends, but yet they still are nice to everyone else. I myself i am a cheerleader. I am not rich by any means, and i hang out with many different groups of people. I also had to go through problems within my own clique. Their was a lot of fakeness, thats just not me.

My highschool had cliques, butthey weren't as bad as most. I was a 'band geek'but there were also the jocks, science nerds, and the thespians or dancers. Though you usually "belonged " to a clique, everyone was still friends with others. Each group was known to the public as being an award winning group..none wee bad, so we all saw in each oter clique, what we saw in ourselves, and that was great achievments and lifelong memories. There was no backstabbing, only good times. This helps me now, in university, because it has been easier to spot who's actually nice, and who to stay away from.

I loved high school! I miss it so much. My friends weren't necessarily in a clique that can be labeled. We were just ourselves and it was really fun and dramatic. At the time I hated the drama, but it made such good memories! It was all so worth it.

I wasn't in any clique either. Sometimes I'd hang out with different people, but in the end I was really on my own, so I got used to be a loner, even in college. It took its toll on me, but it was (and still is) comfortable.

i must say that the energy that came off those popular girls was so snobbish, there was no sincerity in any of them. for one the popular black girl who participated in the experiment was filled with a load of crock, she felt she was a nice individual yet mentioned that if she saw a girl who resembled her makeover, she would tell them to go home and wash thier face which shows her level of ignorance bieng acne doesnt only stem from bieng dirty. as well the white girl who put on weight as pt of the experiment said that she would never associate with a heavier person yet when face to face with the "unpopular girls" she claimed they should make more of an attempt to be social. plastic does fit them because they wanted an apology so bad but when recieved not one girl rose thier hand to do so back, the only time they said anything was to save face and disclaim the statements made toward them. it is true that an hour was not enough time by far to settle the long time disputes between the 2 groups. and maybe the blk girl wit the short cut should have apologized but i can fully understand why she didnt feel the need to do so for it was very aparant that the popular girls where inconsiderate towards what the unpopular girls faced on a daily basis and still had the same notions they came in with and would not change. it was only a problem when the not so positive stuff was targeted at the popular girls who participated. they could say bieng called plastic made them feel bad but that compared to what they put so many girls through is no where near on the

HI tyra i love your show so much and i understand the popular and knt so popular but i was in the popular crowd and the group was very judge mental and i starting hangin out with the unpopular peeps from my highschool and became and outcast to my other friends but i felt more comfortable with my new friends and more people agreed with me and things changed a little but im still knwn as fake for hanging with other people out side the clique and now im on the outside looking in and im happy with my decision some people hate the popular cliques

Hey Tyra, I've always had a problem with cliques... The thing is, I'm friends with everyone. It gets tough at times (well it use to). I started homeschooling in the fall of 07, just to get away from all that. The thing that hurt the most was the fact that all my friends were my friends until they got popular. Or I got friends out of pity... Not nice, to be honest. I don't need pity. You see, I lost my parents when I was 6, and it's something I don't like to remember (my mom was murdered in front of me when I was 6). Whenever teachers ask for parent signatures, I'd always say 'Sorry, had to get it signed by my aunt/uncle. It got people talking, and in my first year of high school it got worse. People became my friends out of pity. I hated it so much that I've trapped myself at home. Day in, day out. I have the same schedule everyday: homework, babysit, and remember to eat. Cliques can get that bad. But for all of you out there, love yourself for who you are, not for what people see you by. I'm glad I'm going to start studying psychology this year (I'm 16); I want to find out why there has to be a price to friendship. Thanks :)

hey tyra! in my school there's a lot of cliques ,but I don't belong to any of them . I've always being known as the quiet girl or the girl that never talks. it's been difficult that sometimes i cry .I can't friends of my age , I really don't why . popular girls ignore completely .