Yesterday, I read an article about a study on what modern adolescents prefer better: to be popular or to be well-liked. Previously, these two concepts didn't seem something opposite in my mind. Sure, people can be well-liked even without being popular. And obviously, popular ''subjects'' may have their haters. But it also seems rather logical to presume that if smb or smt is popular, then it's liked by some more or less wide number of people, isn't it? Or does popularity simply derive from being well-known? If so, does it mean that popularity of any product or any media-face is basically just a result of a promotion? ''It is everywhere, it must be good!'' - just like that? But still, even if advertisment worked well so that smb or smt had turned well-known, wouldn't it still be ''a must'' to be liked by the crowd? Otherwise, how could the ''product'' achieve its popularity stable? Not liked, the brand/the name would have been merely forgotten soon...or not? So, is there any essential difference between ''being popular'' and ''being well-liked''? Or is ''being well-liked'' included into the concept of ''popularity''? The study displayed that the most of teenagers would rather be well-liked for their vitues than popular. Personally, I would better prefer to be popular for my deeds - being just nice is not enough to be a full-functional social item.

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