UltimaXtreme's Signature said:
Why am I a pony fan? Peer Pressure
John Mason said:
You were born an original. Don’t become a copy.
Don't ever like or dislike something just because your friends like or dislike it, even if they are people you respect very much. Although it may fool people at first, it will eventually leave the people you've associated with feeling cheated, when they realize that you didn't honestly take any interest in the things that you supposedly had in common.
A year or two back, I had a new friend, one who seemed to have everything in common with me. Almost anything I was interested in, or obsessing over, he would be interested in also. For a while, we hung out, and I thought we had a serious friendship developing. Then, one day, he decided that another person, who wasn't too fond of me, was a lot cooler than I was. Suddenly, I had nothing in common with him anymore, and he started acting like the other person's new "best friend". Of course, that meant looking down on me, despising my interests, and all of that. Apparently, this kid was only acting in peer pressure when he got around me, in an effort to be appreciated. Frankly, I felt tricked, for good reason, and I would have preferred it in the first place if he had just been a jerk right off the bat, or at least just been himself, with his own interests, instead of pulling a traitor move on me.
Don't be a fake. Find your own interests, without letting your peers influence it too much. If your peers are really that much of jerks that they'll persecute you over it... Then find new friends! There's people out there that you'll find that you have much more in common with, and that you can relate to in a non-pressured environment.