I found an article about the relationship between good looks and success, unfortunately it is a bit depressing.

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cf...d=10311266

But here are a few important quotations in case you don't bother reading it :

Beauty is totally subjetive. Someone you may consider good looking might not be considered so by their friends. Anyway it could even be argued that good looking people are intimidating and stand offish.

I hate good looking people, partially because I am jealous. But the problem is that people make judgement about you base on your looks. Lets face it, everyone of us do. Yes, we may say awww, he/she is so mean, but when it comes to you making friends with an ugly dude, will you do it? I for one am not so good looking, and because of that, I am bullied, laughed at...there's just no stop.

I agree with rabbit we do make judgements based on appearence. However I do think beauty is in the eye of the beholder, ie there's a guy in my lectures who works part time as model whilst some of my friends find him attractive some of us don't. And when you're jealous of someone you tend to see them in biased way, you think they have everything you want but for all you know they could've been bullied too.
I think the person with the real problems is someone who only befriends people only becuase they deem good looking. I don't think anyone here would look at someone and think "I'm not going to befriend you cos you're ugly". And if you do then you're a sad individual.

Sometimes it isn't someone's looks that give them friends. Some people are very confident in themselves and are willing to approach others and take rejection if it comes. A person who has a bunch of friends who are with that person because they believe they are good-looking or because they are rich, does not have friends. Friendship is an emotional attraction between people not a superficial one.

Also, as jasmin stated, "Beauty is totally subjective." Where does the line that separates beauty and ugliness truly begin and end? If there is one, I would say that it is not straight no sharp. Blurred between the real and the media perhaps. Anyone can look at someone and say they look good but, everyone has a flaw. If you examine someone long enough, you're likely to start picking out things because it's natural for us to do so.

If someone has friends just because they look good or have money, I pity them, they won't have someone to turn to if they really need it. And then again maybe the friendship is genuine. I try not to be too quick to judge. But I'm only human.

I've always wondered what it would be like to be very attractive...everything would probably seem easy, like having friends, dating, achieving goals, being happy...but then you'd always wonder about people's motives of being friends with you and dating you...perhaps it would be more of a curse than a gift. With the spotlight on you and all the drama around your life it would make you feel important but at the same time there would be a lot of pressure. I may not have much luck in the dating department, but at the same time I don't feel like I have to answer to anyone or please anyone for the sake of keeping my social status. Really hot people seem to have a lot of problems with drugs and alcohol...

Have you try harming people?

It all make sense now...

In my opinion it is just as bad to hate someone for being good looking as it is to like someone who is good looking.

I think people respond to confidence. How many not so good looking guys do you see dating "out of their league?"

To the OP, people will respond to you if you just be yourself, and stay confident. Of course not everyone will, but don't let past experiences keep you from trying to make friends.

I agree with you RunningAlone. Its just saddening to know that ppl are poplar based on the one thing. You see a pretty girl and every one wants to be her best friend. All the guys want to date her and all the girls wont to be friends and that's be for anyone even got to know her.

Of course there is a lot of good looking ppl out there that are very nice. But it dose do my head in on how superficial ppl can be. OK so you might go out with a good looking girl/lad but if you really wont to spend the rest of your life with that person there has to be moor. We well all grow old and loss what ever good looks we have eventually.

prove tho that just because your good looking dose not give you a free pass to having lots of friends. Just look at the post your picture thread here. I think you well be surprised in how many good looking ppl are on this board.

i think that too, to be honest. there's something a little ironic about saying you hate good-looking people because they're shallow. and i'm not sure it really makes that much of a difference anyway - i've never thought any better (or any worse) of a woman because of her looks, and as for men... well if i see a really attractive fella i get even more intimidated than usual. ok, i'm especially useless around people but i'm probably not the only person who's like that. and bluey is right that there are a lot of genuinely good looking people here, so sadly it doesn't appear as clean cut as looks = friends.