Just sayin.
The network is as strong (actually stronger) than litecoin's now.
87k members.
Consistently doing about 1/4 - 1/3 the transaction volume of bitcoin.
And dogecoin will move up far faster than bitcoin can. ($27m market cap vs $5b).

And not to mention, bitcoin's max block size of 1mb is nearly reached (currently around 300kb per block), Dogecoin's is 10kb (largely because it gets 10 blocks for every 1 of bitcoin's (1 minute blocks). This is an important issue, Gavin (a lead bitcoin dev) was suggesting a hardfork just for this.

I'm a value investor, if I felt there was greater value in bitcoin (especially in the time frame of the next year or 2), I would prefer to hold bitcoin.

I used to hate dogecoin too, basically just spiting them for being a "meme coin" (who would take a meme coin seriously right?)
But in the past year, the community has proven to be extremely friendly, and extremely effective at coming together and doing things larger than bitcoin (nascar, olympics, doge4water, etc).

And just to boot, Dogecoin has been around nearly a year now and has passed the test of time.

Do yourself a favor and research it, look at the fundamentals, seriously. do it.


Edit: one final thought. I think in the future, we will be able to chose what currencies we use based on what we support and believe. (and perhaps most coins will be issued by companies/organizations, and we chose to use their currency based on its values matching ours). Anyway the point is, Dogecoin represents kindness, friendliness, tipping/sharing. It's the type of community I want to be involved and, and I do believe, that many in the future will want to be involved with too as soon as they discover it (when it starts taking off next time and attracts a large amount of attention).