Indirect Peer Pressure

How do you feel when all of your friends watch a specific television show and love it when you've never seen a single episode? For instance, The Office. Almost every single person I know watches The Office. At first, only a few people who I don't talk to very much watched the show. I figured it was any ol' television show and didn't think too much about it. Thursday night, as I'm doing my Anatomy homework while occasionally checking my Facebook out of boredom, I noticed that a BUNCH of people had The Office episode countdowns as their statuses. Like, really?

The boy mentioned in my previous posts had been texting me at that time to watch the show as well. Since I've never actually seen all of the episodes of the past seasons, I figured that I'd be completely clueless and not get like, half of the jokes. So I opted out.

Next day during art class, everyone around me is talking about The Office episode and how Pam and Jim are just SO cute. I was isolated/pushed to the side because I couldn't contribute.

How is it that a mere television show can control your social status?

What do you do when that happens to you? Do you go home and watch every single episode starting from the Pilot? Do you just watch the episode they were discussing? Or do you continue your life, not watching the show?

If you do give in and watch the show, is it because you want to feel included? One of the gals/guys? Or do you watch it because everyone loves it? What motivates you?

Is this indirect peer pressure?

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Mina<3