Is being a geek fashionable now?
The above video (accompanied with this site) is a fun initiative to tell people to embrace their inner geek. And it seems geekdom is on the rise. On tv there are characters like Liz Lemon, Chuck and Leonard and Sheldon who clearly are geeks. Using social media like Facebook, Flickr or Twitter is going mainstream and so is posting videos and blogposts. So is being a geek fashionable now?
I can remember not so long ago I was talking to some of my friends about my nightly Counter Strike matches and how I tweaked my settings. Or talked about the forums I hung out at and moderated. I was met with blank stares. Now they come up to me and show me their latest smartphone and the fun things they can do with it or ask me to join a social media site. Maybe it’s because technology is being intertwined more and more into our lives. We work with computers on our jobs. We mail, text, call and interact through phones and computers. Or we plan a meet up between friends through social sites.
So if our work and social life demand for us to use technology, we don’t have another choice than to become a geek.
