Geek in Practice

I was chatting with a friend today and I told her “What can I do? I’m a geek” in response to some geeky stuff that I said. So she answered me “Things like that shouldn’t be said in public!”. Well, honestly, people always tell me that but I, like most geeks, never stop saying it! Geekdom is more of a badge of honor we, geeks, carry on our chests. Yes, I’m a geek where is the shame on that? Usain Bolt is an athlete do you see him ashamed? Well, of course not, he’s the damn fastest man on earth! but my point holds! No use being ashamed of being what you are (Dr. Phil will definitely agree) just try to be the best at it! And that’s what the phenom did!

Geekdom is a lifestyle. It’s the interest you give to everything around you! That self-cleaning-thinner-than-a-hair polymer invented in Purdue University, that new MMORPG launched a month ago, the new features Sony-Ericsson’s new Xperia phone, just about anything related to technology. That doesn’t mean we don’t understand anything else, It’s just when like economists and financiers enjoy reading about what did Ben Bernanke do in the last Federal Reserve board meeting. Many geeks, unlike what people think, tend to know a little bit about everything and everything about what they like. The stereotype says geeks are anti-social which holds true to an extent. That extent stopped exactly before the internet was invented (which melted any sort of boundary anyway) I bet that the source that linked you here is over-saturated with geeks. Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, Digg, younameit.com … etc they’re all geekdom utopias. They’re a part of everyone’s life whether you agree or not! Geekdom is not what it used to be in the 70s but the stereotypes stuck around till the new millennium and beyond!

It’s a good time to be a geek, go 1337s!