OMG I'm such a great fan!!!! #2

The final nail to my coffin: I officially announce that I am part of the tumblr community now. I can't wait to wallow in my fangirldom. This actually should be illegal.

Anyways, the actual topic of today's post is what the difference between a geek and a nerd is. As a member of various blogging platforms and social networks, I stumble upon these expressions from time to time. For some people geek and nerd are synonyms. Both are dedicated to their interests but still they connotate differently. I have to emphasize here that this are my personal opinions and interpretations. I would call a person a geek if he/she is very enthusiastic of a topic, book, movie, hobby etc and is determined to collect all possible information about it. On the other hand, a nerd is more an intellectual of a certain field.

So for me, a geek would look like this...

...and a nerd perhaps like this:

There are some more of those funny new expressions, such as "hipster", "nerd glaze", "duh" or "to chillax" (the latter has actually been added to the dictionary recently). However, I won't get into detail about those now but if you want to find more about it in the links below.

hipster explained by a "grrrrl": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a1FdDf72AQ
the night when nerd glaze was coined (bless this man!) :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO0D87dBmoM
duh http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=duh

So here we stand now, surrounded by all this modern stuff, without really knowing what to do with it.

(Internet-) society somehow pigeonholes us, no matter what we do or like. If you have another opinion than other people, you are pigeonholed as a so called "hater". If you actually like to listen to Coldplay, you are pigeonholed as a hipster. And if you enjoy a particular book and can't put it down, especially if it is a book series, you are labelled a geek. I do not say that stereotyped thinking is entirely bad because in order to form an opinion you have to make lists in your mind. No one has ever said that you are not allowed to rearrange your list. However, I feel that (internet-)society is over-using certain expressions and classifications and I sometimes feel exhausted reading the same ideas over and over again. So this is a call for action addressed to all you on the internet reading this: BE MORE CREATIVE! Be more original in what you think, in what you write and in what you post. I will also give my best. Best wishes, the English adventurer.