Anyone else vote Alex stop self promoting?

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the Bridge's season ended months ago. Time to change headlines, Alex. Quit being a self-promoting starf*cker.

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It's his "house". He gets to decide what pictures go on the wall, not his guests!

I think he can do whatever he wants on his own website.

This is his site. If he wants to self-promote all over the place, he can.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion.

^^I guess the vote is resounding 'nay' then. Yay democracy!

Doesn't have to be jealousy (though envy is a better fitting emotion for what you want).

Some people loathe self-promotion and other types of whoring.

This is his castle. He can decorate it the way he wishes.

You're free to skip over his front page and go straight to the threads if you don't like it.

It's not self promotion to have a picture of yourself on your own website. Who is he promoting himself to? You're already here when you see it, so what's the benefit of that? Would you feel better if the picture of him was of him sitting there by himself looking sad?

Yeah. I don't generally approve of blatant self promotion, but he owns the site, pays for the servers; and a man's home is his castle. CR said the rest.

I like work that he's doing on this site. He's showing the world that we're not sad little victims sitting over there looking sad. I like how he's going out into the community and talking to people, spreading positive awareness.

Eh, I don't care. Just saying that some people don't like it, and it doesn't have to be due to envy.

What a thread.

Honestly, I can't argue with Brianruns10, there is a point at which it starts to seem a bit cheesy and vain, like our noses are being rubbed in someone else's successful social life.

Enough already, we get it, you're hobnobbing with celebs while we're lonely losers with no lives at all, except posting with other solitary recluses on the Internet. Thanks for the constant and eternal reminders.

I'm far from lonely and I have a life that's busier than I'd like it to be many times. Why do you want to lump everybody into two groups? The very successful and the very unsuccessful? There is a middle ground. Most people don't hobnob with celebrities or even get close to them. If you had a picture of yourself standing next to a pretty tv star wouldn't you put it on your page?

Have you noticed that when he makes something new he puts up a pic to go with it and takes the old one down? Maybe he hasn't had time for that. Maybe he hasn't made something new yet.

What in the hell is wrong with that picture, except for the fact that he's standing next to a girl? If he was standing next to some guy who nobody had ever heard of, with dirty hair, a plaid shirt buttoned all the way up, braces, glasses, and an award for being a Mathalete, would that be ok to leave up this long? What about if it was maybe just Alex and a new dog he got that he thought was a pretty cool dog? Where does it stop being something that's a reminder of something you don't have?

Right now I'm going through some s**t where I'm having to come to terms with getting old. I don't look young anymore and it's pissing me off. I never got to be pretty like I wanted to be, so that dream has died. Looking at that girl in the pic isn't a reminder that I'll never get the chance to be hot like that. I have one son that's doing construction, catch as catch can, and another who is sometimes taking GED classes but otherwise is a slacker. I'm not constantly reminded by looking at that pic that my son's aren't self starters and motivated and successful. I'm not all jealous that his mother has a son that people heard of for good things and who will be able to take care of her in her old age and who probably doesn't cringe when a cop knocks at her door. I just think the girl should enjoy her time being young and pretty and wish her the best and I want to see Alex succeed even more, because he seems like a very nice boy. It doesn't bother me that much when other people have things I don't and that I wish I had and have no way of making happen.

Also, not everything is about you, or you, or you, or me, or that guy or those girls or anybody else. Sometimes it's just there and about nothing really. Just because something bothers you (or me or anyone else) doesn't mean it's put there for that purpose. Isn't there some kind of way to make your computer not show it or something if it bothers you? I rarely look at the pics, they are just like ads to me and I never pay them any attention unless they change and it's something new. Then I look. Why are you even looking at it? If Alex didn't have AS then would it be ok for him to put it up there? Is it fine for NT's to have things but not for aspies to? Where is the line, who draws it, and what do you think should be done when it's crossed? Should those of us who have any kind of success at anything that someone else wishes they had not show any sign of it?

I remember reading something on here once, when I was scrolling back through really old posts, just reading stuff, a few years back. One guy was complaining about girls wearing engagement rings and anybody wearing wedding rings because he felt it shoved it in everybody else's face who wasn't in a relationship. WTF? This is kinda like that. The pic is in an appropriate spot and the wallpaper isn't a photo collage of him. When Alex starts sending me emails of his new pictures and sets up a fan page and requires us all to go there and look at it, THEN I'll b***h that he needs to take it down a few notches, but right now, there is nothing wrong with what he's doing.

Jesus, people are allowed to take credit for success.