Wednesday, February 16, 2005
I am now officially an internet nerd.
It's true.
I've got a blog, a live journal, a favorite messageboard, a myspace account and any second now I'll probably find myself on friendster. Watch out.
But I'm more connected to people than I ever have been in my life. I've met more people in the last few weeks than at any other time in my life. And they are cooler and more interesting than I could have imagined.
Being nerdy isn't cool, it's just that the coolest people are now doing things that were nerdy a little while ago. Nerdiness is still nerdy, it's just that being a nerd looks a lot more like what being cool used to look like that it does what being berdy used to look like.
That's a subtle, but incredibly important distinction.
There's been some kind of sublimation--the nerds went to technology to get away from people, but they ended up finding the people behind the computers and making friends. Then they got cool, but they didn't leave the computers behind. That's when everything exploded.
The cool people all figured the computers were for nerds, and got left behind. Now they're bigger losers than they could ever have imagined.
E-mail me! Just 'cause I haven't met you yet, doesn't mean we have nothing in common.
-Trevor
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I've got a blog, a live journal, a favorite messageboard, a myspace account and any second now I'll probably find myself on friendster. Watch out.
But I'm more connected to people than I ever have been in my life. I've met more people in the last few weeks than at any other time in my life. And they are cooler and more interesting than I could have imagined.
Being nerdy isn't cool, it's just that the coolest people are now doing things that were nerdy a little while ago. Nerdiness is still nerdy, it's just that being a nerd looks a lot more like what being cool used to look like that it does what being berdy used to look like.
That's a subtle, but incredibly important distinction.
There's been some kind of sublimation--the nerds went to technology to get away from people, but they ended up finding the people behind the computers and making friends. Then they got cool, but they didn't leave the computers behind. That's when everything exploded.
The cool people all figured the computers were for nerds, and got left behind. Now they're bigger losers than they could ever have imagined.
E-mail me! Just 'cause I haven't met you yet, doesn't mean we have nothing in common.
-Trevor
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