The Real Difference
My very good friend Chrono had posted nice stuff on geeks some months back. I had thought about it then but not till recently someone sparked it again in my mind. I was thinking what is the difference between a nerd and a geek and who defines the difference. I have always thought what am I a geek or a nerd, never got an answer to that question though. Simply because maybe I really don’t know if I am a geek or nerd material. Anyways apart from that I always believed there is a great difference between a geek and a nerd. Some say it doesn’t matter but to me everything matters.
Lets take a look at what Geeks are. Well, according to my opinion any person who has some special interest in something and learns things about it and loves to question even its basics to understand it fully is a geek. For a good example, a computer geek. I believe some one who has special interest in computers or any special part in computer and dares to pursue to understand what really it is and why it is. They are totaly passionate to what they are doing and even dare to ask question about the basics so that they learn more. They whole heartedly believe in what they are doing. I believe that this is what a Geek is and what he does.
A nerd, well many people proclaim to be “Computer Nerds”, I am sure more than half of them even don’t know what is the definition of Nerds. We see in movies that people wearing spectacles and being different are nerds but really that is no where being a nerd. Nerds, according to me are different from Geeks in many aspects. Firstly lack of questioning, that means accepting given facts. They accept facts that have been given to them without a question. Understanding is not preliminary to them, just learning it or mugging it up is important. Never asking what they really don’t know, trying to hide that aspect always. But these people know everything about something without any understanding. I never say that a guy wearing spectacles or looking different is a nerd. Nerds lack a quality of making the world move around them, I mean they really never have lots of acquaintances. But one thing the people they know are truest of friends. This makes a nerds unique, bookish knowledge makes nerds unique.
Geeks have lots of acquaintances but out of them maybe one or two true friends because they love to make the world spin around them. Nerds and Geeks though similar have many differences. Both are same but still so varied. It really feels good when you have them as good friends because they normally won’t back bite you for anything else because both know how to stay true.
P.S: Note this are my ideas and thinking, I believe many people might have different ideas and I respect all ideas and would love to see them in comments here but please no flamings.
Another P.S: Yeah this note is for people who self proclaim they are geek or nerd without much thought on what they are so I believe they can learn from this post and any future comments what really a Geek or Nerd is.
Random Thoughts: Well, after a mind twisting post this post comes consecutively within an hour or so, I think I went overboard with philosophy in last and this post.
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November 28th, 2006 at 4:26 am
What is feel is that in both the cases , there life revolves around something , like in case of Computer Geek & Computer Nerd , there lives revolve around Computer but the diffrence is that the geek loves it and the nerd doesnt .
November 28th, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Yeah you got a point there about geeks loving and nerds not loving it.
December 1st, 2006 at 3:44 pm
interesting…I plan to post on how a non-neek or gerd(ie, people like me) views neeks and gerds:)