Nerd or Geek ??
Are you that kind of person who always wants to sit at home, keep the phone on silent or flight mode, Don't need a company of anybody, just want access to the internet and surf the web. Then there will be 2 reasons either you are enrolled in some major project or you have an anxiety of facing your friends or any outer people, the reason is the failure, it may be marks, percentage, position, etc.
And people think that you are studying, hence that is not every time true.
Then congratulations these are the characteristics of a nerd person or geek person, let's find out what you are -
Some more nerd traits-
1) Extreme interest or fascination with academics.
2) Introvert
3) Socially Inept
4) Diverse and impractical skills due to broad interests in games, movies, science, computer, etc.
5) A PC
6) Interest might include Battlestar Galactica (BSG), LARPing, Second Life, physics, Chess, Fantasy, Computer programming.
Some more geek traits-
1) Someone with specific interest/lifestyle that they have become the expert on.
2) Knowledge can range from mundane to 'living encyclopedia ' status.
3) It can be pretentious and long-winded.
4) were iconic t-shirts.
5) interest might include gaming, film. Collecting gadgets/tech, coding hacking. techno music, etc.
6) A fan of gadgets
Let's discuss briefly on this topic-
Geeks and nerd may share similar outward traits --or not-- but when you compare their approaches to life, the difference becomes apparent.
Nerd love to use jargon or unfamiliar terminology in their dialogue, whereas geeks will use obscure references rarely.
for example-
NERD - That's an overused Foley. The SD must be lazy.
GEEK - Oh! I love how Percy Jackson uses the Wilhelm Scream in every movie!
Geeks often take interest in the microcosmic details of life, such as noticing that your present situation is much like one from a news article or a novel. Nerds will be seemingly uninterested in the details of daily life, being more focused on the macroscopic, such as scientific possibilities and the future of humankind.
Compare Interest-
- A geek may enjoy board games, film (and may follow directors, composers, or key grips obsessively), tech gadgets, hacking, and techno music.
- A nerd enjoys solitary pursuits like programming and Second Life, or games like chess and go.
Discover where they work-
While nerds and geeks are both intelligent and educated, there are some career paths that appeal only to one or the other:
- In addition to populating IT departments the world over, you can find geeks in artistic jobs like web design, graphic design, or game designs. You may find geeks behind the bar, in your local record store, or pulling espressos at the coffee shop.
- Look for nerds to be working as a rocket scientist, or programming the software that the IT department has to manage. They may be an engineer, or an inventor, or even a brilliant recluse who rarely sees the light of day. You might also find them behind the counter at the last remaining video store.
- Nerds tend to be interested in the field of STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. People in this field tend to be intelligent and will require years of a college education.
Factors/stats-
17% of Americans identified as geeks
65% of video game designers identified as geeks
50% of tech engineers identified as geeks
37% of bloggers identified as geeks
66% of millennials think 'geeks' is a compliment
45% of people believe geeks are early adopters
31% of the people believe geeks having higher chances of being successful
In short-
- geek – An enthusiast of a particular topic or field. Geeks are “collection” oriented, gathering facts and mementos related to their subject of interest. They are obsessed with the newest, coolest, trendiest things that their subject has to offer.
- nerd – A studious intellectual, although again of a particular topic or field. Nerds are “achievement” oriented, and focus their efforts on acquiring knowledge and skill over trivia and memorabilia.
My views-
According to me,
Collections are geeky: All derivatives of the word “collect” are orange. As are “boxset” and which imply a taste for completeness and authenticity.
Academic fields are nerdy: math, history, physics, biology, neuroscience, biochemistry, etc. Other academic words and institutions (“Harvard”, “oxford”) are also blue.
The science & technology words differ: General terms (“computers,” “big data”) are on the diagonal — similarly geeky and nerdy. As you splay up toward geekier, though, you see products, startups, brands, and more cultish technologies (“apple”, “Linux”). As you splay down toward nerdier you see more methodologies (“calculus”).
Hobbies: compare the more geeky pastimes (“toys,” “manga”) with the more nerdy ones (“chess,” “sudoku”).
Brains: the word “intelligence” may be geeky, but “education,” “intellectual,” and “smartypants” are nerdy.
Reading: “books” are nerdy, but “ebooks” and “iBooks” are geeky.
Pop culture vs. high culture: “shiny” and “trendy” is super-geeky, but (curiously) “cellist” is the nerdiest…
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Hey all geeks out there, before ending up I want to tell that Tony Stark was nerd..3000