Geeks are social outcasts. They prefer to stay at home and interact with their PC or their games console. Have they been deprived of social skills as a result of their dependence on tapping away at a keyboard or fiddling with a joystick. Would their lives have been infinetely different if technology hadn't consumed them?
2007-02-21 03:55:03 · 55 answers · asked by Prince 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
interesting question.. my short answer to all of that is yes, but similar concerns throughout time must have arisen, when kids started getting their hands on books, some might have stopped to question if they should not be outside playing instead, when TV became popular similar concerns must have arisen, and now computers, the ultimate, book/TV stay at home entertainment learning device... without kids staying at home part of the time to read and learn on their own they would indeed loose something, just as a kid who stays at home all of the time looses his social skills, the opposite is just as concerning, the key of course is balance, and the computer is so powerfully educational and entertaining that this balance is getting lost, every ones lives would be very different if not for the computer now, but i would not say they would be better, simpler maybe, kids should find a balance between technology and good old fashioned playing/social interaction.. i for one did not and am a geek who answers questions on yahoo haha, although i wish i had spent more time playing sports and talking to girls haha..
2007-02-21 04:10:18 · answer #1 · answered by Matt H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You wouldn't be able to posts question on a forum without a computer.
I am a geek, and proud of it! Computers helped me through university financially and now pay my bills, I am a bit unsocial but I cannot blame computers entirely.
A geek spend time in front of a computer with a bar of chocolate and a can of coke whilst what you might call “social” individuals spend time is bars and clubs with alcohol and bad friends. Social is out in the cold, battering high winds and getting yet trying to catch a taxi, a geek is in a well heated home on a comfy chair with a cup of warm chocolate and a fancy weather control system at their finger tips. A social burns their liver and geeks their minds. All great people are geeks; socials end up in unscrupulous, underpaid careers servicing geeks.
Geek is the way to go! This world need more geeks but socials that damage the environment and increase global warming whilst getting bankrupt.
Socials watch out the geeks are coming.
2007-02-21 07:27:36 · answer #2 · answered by Shuggy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's always been geeks - but define geeks? Presumably it seems someone so enamered by something that it takes over their lives e.g. train spotting or using a computer. But then if the activity gives that person joy, pleasure and reason to live then why should we pour scorn on it or them? Model car enthusiasts could be described as geeks but then they have get togethers - are they socially stunted?
Are not people who just live to out to get pissed on a Friday and Saturday night just a different form of geek?
2007-02-21 04:11:45 · answer #3 · answered by Andy S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I personally think that a social recluse (as that is more accurate a term than outcast) would find other activities to absorb their time rather than resort to socialising.
Additionally, the majority of "geek" socialise using their computer anyways, albeit in a non-personal and usually non-verbal way.
2007-02-21 04:31:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, computers have significantly increased the number of geeks because geeks can now meet geeks of the opposite sex in on-line dating forums, marry and have geeky kids.
Eventually we will take over the world.
I mean they will.
Oh, damn, I've given our plan away. Still, you do have a very attractive avatar. Fancy meeting up for some unsocial interaction later?
2007-02-21 04:41:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
nope - geeks have always been around - it's just that before they were sat on the railway platform writing down the engine numbers of all the steam trains. Geeks have become cool now though and no longer hold their glasses together with an old fabric plaster.
2007-02-21 05:22:51 · answer #6 · answered by Carrie S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
geeks are not born , they are made, not everybody is the same, and some are different than others, and if you are unlucky enough to be born in to an area from which you differ in intellect, interests and activities ( lets face it, not everybody supports a football club, drinks himself silly at the weekend and is only interested in the shageability of the next ****)
so you go somewhere else, and if travel is not an option, computers are, with forums and discussionboards and a lot of other things
Wissen is Macht
Nix Wissen macht auch nix
2007-02-21 04:36:35 · answer #7 · answered by fred10002003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Geeks aren't neccessarily chained to computers as their 'drug' of choice. What about train spotters or...ahem...Star Wars mega-fans (you surely know about those C3PO?) to name just two other pursuits that are considered geeky.
I'd say a geek is quite an uneccessary label pinned to anybody who has a real passion for something that doesn't neccessarily include any other human interaction.
2007-02-21 04:33:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the risk of pointing out the obvious - are you really having a crack at "geeks" for spending all thier time on computers, on an website? I suspect that yahoo is administerd by the very "geeks" you're running down. How would you occupy their time without them?
2007-02-21 04:26:10 · answer #9 · answered by Bultimus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its actually the other way around! Geeks are responsible for increasing the number of computers!
2007-02-21 06:28:56 · answer #10 · answered by Romi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋