Honestly, you should do as you wish. Getting better or getting worse is somewhat something you can't decide, it can be either on a universal perspective or a personal perspective of better or not. If you want to be satisfied with it, maybe try and do what you like, if it piss all your neighbors do it. I knew how it is to be on the other side of trouble, it only feels good when your doing it for your own happiness and not others. But if you do want to get better like a good two shoes, then maybe paying attention for your surroundings is better. People say copping what others do is bad, but it's just a mechanism to fit in. Everyone does that, even the most diferent people