This is just a little game we're all playing: popularity in high school... I used to tell myself that high school popularity was just a silly game. Then I grew

This is just a little game we're all playing: popularity in high school... I used to tell myself that high school popularity was just a silly game. Then I grew older, the web was invented, and I got to read the stories of geeks whose unpopularity in school led to them being beaten with bicycle chains in the parking lot. Never underestimate the power of social dynamics. When humans play a "little game", that game can become real.