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What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:42 am
by Amarisa
What would you consider a nerd to be? or geek.
For some reason there isn't really a set line at least with the people I talk to.
I mean I have gotten my A+ certificate (just a comptia certificate to say you know how to work on computers) I tend to thirst for knowledge a lot of times. I made a dedicated computer just for server uses/ learning networking/ virtual networking. But I also do slightly have a social life. I have been in a relationship for over a year and I do go out on the weekends. Have a job (working with computers even though sense they made a cut no so much anymore) and so on.
Would you consider me a nerd/geek?
But yea what do you think makes a nerd/geek?
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 4:44 am
by wootpops
nerd
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:08 am
by vietxboy911
Someone who spends ALOT of time on the computer/games and are anti-social
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:12 am
by Kirkaldi
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:50 am
by heroo
nerd isn't a negative word. it actually means that you're very smart and often are very capable with the computer. the way it's being seen as something bad nowadays is because people often associate the word nerd with persons who don't have a social life.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:36 am
by cpinney
sorry babe your a nerd, its ok tho you don't sound like a anti-social one
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:16 am
by jyushinshuu
geek and nerd, what's the difference?
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:36 am
by lentyski
A nerd is smart, a Geek looks smart but is not.
My opinion.
I'm Winning.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:37 am
by MrTwilliger
Nerd, jock, geek or a prep, does it really matter in the end? If you appreciate people for who they are individually you'll soon find yourself not needing to categorise people in such a way. You are who you are and that's about all that matters.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:06 am
by Azilius
MrTwilliger wrote:Nerd, jock, geek or a prep, does it really matter in the end? If you appreciate people for who they are individually you'll soon find yourself not needing to categorise people in such a way. You are who you are and that's about all that matters.
And that answers the question........how?
Anyway I've heard the term used interchangeably. If you google it people think they are the same, or one is x and the other is y, or the opposite =\
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:59 am
by *BlackFox
In either case, who wants to be "simply normal"?.. lulz
MrTwilliger wrote:If you appreciate people for who they are individually you'll soon find yourself not needing to categorise people in such a way. You are who you are and that's about all that matters.
Well, QFT
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:57 am
by Mirosuke
You are just you.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:49 pm
by Acornah
Mirosuke wrote:You are just you.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:19 pm
by inky
The whole nerd thing kind of ends after HS. Even when you're in HS, there's nothing cool about being stupid and not knowing your shit. Although being an awkward antisocial weirdo is a different category altogether.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:21 pm
by Barotix
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... Other-Nameinky wrote:The whole nerd thing kind of ends after HS. Even when you're in HS, there's nothing cool about being stupid and not knowing your shit. Although being an awkward antisocial weirdo is a different category altogether.
Anti-intellectualism plagues High School hallways.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:52 pm
by Skyve
Considering that almost everyone now spends a lot of time with computers, I don't think someone is a nerd for doing so. A nerd to me is someone that revokes his social life for said computers/video games.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:57 pm
by Miguez
ExSoldier wrote:Considering that almost everyone now spends a lot of time with computers, I don't think someone is a nerd for doing so. A nerd to me is someone that revokes his social life for said computers/video games.
Agreed.
I spend alot of my free time on my computer, but I also practice sports and have a pretty cool social life.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:10 pm
by [Orphen]
Amarisa wrote:What would you consider a nerd to be? or geek.
For some reason there isn't really a set line at least with the people I talk to.
I mean I have gotten my A+ certificate (just a comptia certificate to say you know how to work on computers) I tend to thirst for knowledge a lot of times. I made a dedicated computer just for server uses/ learning networking/ virtual networking. But I also do slightly have a social life. I have been in a relationship for over a year and I do go out on the weekends. Have a job (working with computers even though sense they made a cut no so much anymore) and so on.
Would you consider me a nerd/geek?
But yea what do you think makes a nerd/geek?
Why the sudden need to put yourself in a category? As Mirosuke said, you are you, a social being that has a thirst for knowledge. Just wondering.
Off topic: hi Barotix O.o
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 10:48 pm
by Toasty
Doesnt matter as long as you are socially capable.
Nerds round here are those that leave their room for lectures and thats it. You wont see them anywhere else. Even the "nerds" at my hall dont even go into the kitchen (at least not when theres someone else in there).
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:17 am
by aishsharma
hmm some1 like me?
wears spectacles, attends all his lectures, loves to play games, may decide not to go to a mall or other places with friends so I can play games/attend a lecture/just lie down and read a book.
Not to say i don't go out, I just sometimes feel a bit out of the group even when I'm with them.
However, I spend very little of my time actually studying on my own so I guess I can't be a geek huh?
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:18 am
by ZaKnighT
why would you care what people say...
nerds and shit like that ends after highschool
nerds are usually anti social people your not.. and your not a geek i say neither =)
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:01 am
by Amarisa
ZaKnighT wrote:why would you care what people say...
nerds and shit like that ends after highschool
nerds are usually anti social people your not.. and your not a geek i say neither =)
It's not that I care I am just curious.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:05 am
by Panu
Full fledge nerd
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:03 pm
by Ringtone
Idc people can think what ever they want or me, and my associates i just live life how i think is right.
Re: What would you consider
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:17 pm
by SM-Count
insecure