You know you're a geek when…
- You try and pass off your less than 1 year old iPhone to your non geek partner so you can get the new 32GB video enabled one.
- Life looks like a big content opportunity or a chance to have a say on the very obscure but mildly intriguing (that probably will be of zero interest to anyone non-geek). Unless (a) you make a fool of yourself or (b) you said something cutting edge, controversial or offensive in which case you hit a retweet gold mine.
- Writing a blog post has become a chore and an anomaly amongst a plethora of tweets which we all know is “time saving blogging” or otherwise know as 160 character rants.
- Facebook feels childish now and a “zombie chomp” from a friend is just damn irritating. How about you send me a frigging beer instead!
- You start referring to Facebook as FB. If so it’s time to stop using Facebook.
- The word SEO stops meaning opportunity and instead references all those people trying to infiltrate your LinkedIn and Twitter networks.
- When every pixel of white space means something special to you in the sense of design, screen real estate or most commonly an IE6 wireframe implementation headache.
- You stop opening PPT funny files sent to you from friends because generally there is an “I’m not evil please send me to all your friends and create good karma” message on the last slide. OR, when received from a fellow geek your anti-rick-roll defenses kick in.
- You don’t pay for virus software because you know that while AVG exists it’s like dropping a $50 notes through the grill of a street drain.
- You wonder how banks and telco companies with so much IT muscle can build such bad websites.
- You stop trying to fix problems with large companies and instead adopt a cancel service and move on approach.
- You know the font on a document just by looking at it from 100ft away.
- You know what would be a better font choice for that same document.
- You also know that font will look crap on a PC when compared to an Apple.
- You know PC could do better and can’t understand why PC doesn’t fight back with some “[long pause] Hi I’m Apple [long pause] I’m a bit slooooow” adverts.
- You think gradient shades of blue or grey in Web2.0 websites are pretty but will undoubtedly date at some point.
- You catch the train/bus to work so you can tweet and read blogs instead of lame bumper stickers and lower your carbon footprint.
- You get a call at least once a week from a non-geek relative asking you to fix their circa windows98 PC and being a true geek you are happy to help despite telling them every Christmas to switch to Mac next time as PC’s are really best left to the geeks who need power and like to get under the hood.
- You write a blog post about being a Geek and close it with…KTHXBAI
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Nice post. Need to send this to some colleagues
Interesting info. I thought I was a geek, but when I read the first item, I realized I’m not. Lol. I can still relate to the other items though.