Politicians are expert in making people like them. That is their job. Do you want to be a politician? Do you want to be popular? Is this the same question?

It is not the same question because there are only a few people who matter to you, whereas a politician wants the majority acceptance and approval. Focus on the people who matter to you, and work out what makes them tick. Are you popular within your family? Then consider who your friends really are. It is not always black and white, people might like you but never speak to you. People might speak to you, but they do not like you. Work out who you are and you will know where you stand!

u can not make sum 1 like u!! but b4 sum 1 will like u... u need 2 like yaself 1st... but u can never get sum 1 2 like u!! NEVER CHANGE 4 sum 1 2 like u!!

I thing there is some thing you must have 4 the people to like u.
If u do look nice is the most important open door to people heart.
But if u do not have that nice look u have no chance to be liked iven if u r nice person.

if you are a good person and sociable, people will naturally warm to you. do not seek universal approval as some only pretend to like you for their own gain. Conversely, do not limit or focus narrowly on a close knit group. be yourself if you are good hearted, and if you are not good hearted people will only pretend to like you

Id say not trying to make people like you. Be yourself, and people will like you for who you are. People who are naturally good fun are the best to be around in my opinion.

Wow! Pretty much all these postings are fantastic! I really mean it!

I've spent so much of my life being a goody-goody, doing deeds and favours for other people to make them happy with me, to make them like me.

Then in my late 20s, I changed and the changes were so automatic, overpowering and painful. I became angry, intolerant, opinionated, argumentative, unco-operative. My body and mind was saying ENOUGH! I turned against everyone. When I barked no, I meant it! Friends and kin said I was out of character. They hated me! They wanted the old me back, the me they were used to, the me they could push around, the me who was at their behest.

They never got that me back, and they never will.

Even now, as a more free-feeling person, I still have days when I feel so depressed, foolish and damaged over the years I've wasted as The Great Pretender (just like in that song). I guess it's my emotional souvenir of the kind of person I used to be, stopping me from ever going back.

I say b*ll*cks to trying to get people to like you, b*ll*cks to anyone who recommends trying to get people to like you, and b*ll*cks to the cohorts they rode into town with!


(flowerangelaura - you're looking more and more gorgeous with each pic of you in the forum! I mean it!)

u just need to be urself people won;t like u for trying to be some1 else!! If u do try be some1 else then when they find out then all the effort is been for nuffin, so what I say be urself and if people dnt like u then thats their problem!! L. x

Be nice to ppl - but not so nice as they wanna throw up

ie if u keep going on and on and on about how pretty someone is they wont beleive u - they will think yer after somat

honesty is best policy as long as it aint crude or rude and dont hurt anyones feelings. No point going overboard unless u really know someone is there?

In my opinion, everyone is like marmite. You either are loved or hated. Marmite has never done anyone any harm but some peeps still despise it. . .


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You cant make people dislike or like you. as you cant control people. The best thing to be is yourself. And if people dont value you then its there lose.

You can't make people like you - and if you try to by not being truly you, they can feel it and either feel sympathetic for you because you for some reason don't dare being yourself, dislike you for not being yourself or take advantage of yoy.

Think all have come to the conclusion, that it's pretty impossible to make people like you if you're not being yourself!

But you can accentuate you best qualities being positive and funny, freindly sweet or whatever "positive" quality that comes natural to you.
And then try to down tone if you're annoyed by something. You don't always have to say what you think if it isn't positive and nothing good can come out of it. Then keep it to yourself and your best friends who knows you -all of you.

People wanna be with people that makes them feel good. Simple as that.

well politicians are the creme of the crop at making people like them? nah i hate them, every single one of them. Its easy to make people like you, you just blend in with who your with, you go with there language, the problem comes when people stat getting closer to you as a friend you can keep up the act you have been or you can be yourself and it gets complicated. I will never do anything special for people to like me, yes its great to know you have friends and to hear from some that people where reminising about you i know, its a really great feeling, but being yourself is the best way to go about it, there will always be people that dont like you, that cant be helped. get over it!

But if you act like your something your not then you will either become that person or you will eventually give up, become unhappy, etc. May take a while but eventually it will happen.

there will always be people who dont like you, be yourself and the ones that do like you really do so that is the start of a good friendship