Monday, May 8, 2006

Geek vs Nerds

I don't know who is running Wikipedia....but they need to cleanup those articles.

Pundits and observers dispute the relationship of the terms nerd and geek to one another. Some view the geek as a less technically skilled nerd. Some factions maintain that "nerds" have both technical skills and social competence, whereas geeks display technical skills while socially incompetent; others hold an exactly reversed view, with geek serving as the socially competent counterpart of the socially incompetent nerd, and call themselves geeks with pride (compare Geekcorps, an organization that sends people with technical skills to developing countries to assist in computer infrastructure development). Another view is that "geeks" lack both social competency and technical skills. Arguably, a nerd is a more self-controlled sort of person, while a geek can be something of a loose cannon--or at least more awkward in an obstructive way than a nerd.

Everyone knows that geeks are way cooler than nerds....come on!

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5:05 PM

    That's how I always thought about it, too. Well, it's slang so you can interpret it in many different ways.

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