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Bloggers: A Bunch of Dorks?
Posted by drjay1966 • 5/10/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: bloggers, dorks
Questions for discussion:
Are bloggers all a bunch of dorks?
Do they start blogs because nobody will listening to their dorky blathering in the real world?
Should they be permitted to pass on their dork genes to future generations?
Note: these are just questions for discussion. They're not meant to be controversial or offend any anybody or anything like that.
User Comments
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This is part of my first blogpost:
"For Christmas I was given a fridge magnet that read: ‘Everyone is entitled to my opinion’, which I took to be an indication that, at least in my family’s eyes, I am a highly opinionated person, with no interest in keeping my ideas to myself. So perhaps this journal will not only serve to alleviate my boredom, but also that of anyone who may otherwise have been at the end of one of my rants."
so...yes! -
After I thoughtfully considered the original meaning of the word *Dork*... I have decided that my answer is No!
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good catch!
OP just wishes
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It's easier to have a conversation with people in the real world, but blogging is more for keeping notes for self also. -
I think bloggers would lean towards the geeky side - versus the dorky side. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXyXuqfBLA-
and I would say embrace and celebrate the geekiness
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I'm with PetLvr.
More geek than dork. -
I have no problem being called a dork...a very bitchy and opinionated dork. People seem to like that about me. -
This is a dangerous statement you are making.
I would avoid generalisation if I were you.-
ummm...okay...won't do it again...
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Maybe.. I'm dorky 8)
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Geeky dorks, yes. Otherwise, we'd just have diaries. -
I think of myself as more of a nerd than a dork. Nerd sounds much smarter. -
Bloggers are all different, like everyone else. I'm totally cool, wise, and happy, so I definitely don't fit into the dork category. -
I may be slightly dorkish with geeklike tendencies. Luckily the people around me think it's okay.-
I'm with you, floormodel
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Of course we're dorks! That's why people smirk when we tell them we have a blog at all. -
"Do they start blogs because nobody will listening to their dorky blathering in the real world?"
Wow, that should be the profile description for polybore. -
sadly, I work with psychos who actually listen to my blatherings... and spin off them into their own blathering 0_o
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I would go with 'Losers'-
Or knuckleheads, ding-a-lings and Goofy Goobers. -
or d-bags
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"Dime bags?" What exactly are you doing, cookinga$$hole?
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how do you know what a dime bag is?
Junkie -
I watched a lot of after-school specials in the 80s.
And Nancy Reagan taught me everything I know about drugs. -
plus dime bags are for poor people...can't you just buy an ounce like a normal, decent, and civilized person?
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Oh my goodness no. I don't do that sort of thing! You're a very bad monkey for bringing it all up, tho. Next thing you know, you'll be so far gone, you'll be hallucinating and talking to plastic doll heads from New York City.
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I actually meant "douche bags." You are the one that turned it into drugs!
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Hmmm. I know that phrase, my bespectacled simian friend. Mother used to say it to me all the time. Which reminds me, it's Mother's Day, so I should let Mother out of the cupboards for her monthly walk about and airing out.
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I already called my mom.
you better get on it! -
Shhh! I'm stalling. Same as always.
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gnome fetishists!
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Now I have a major aversion to gnomes...
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I've always been a writing nerd. Now at least I have an audience for my nerdity. -
I think a lot of us have all this useless knowledge bottled up in us and if we don't let any of it out we will explode!
No really, I think that we know that there is more to life then sitting in front of the TV, playing video games and going shopping. We just like to pass onto others information.-
Gosh, Betsy, you make it sound all... empowering. Like we all actually know what we're doing-- I like it.
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For the most part we do!
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I fit equally into "dork" and "geek" -
I prefer the term "Nerd"
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I also fit into "nerd"
I don't have a preference . . . . well cool jock would have been nice but . . . . . -
yeah, fate is cruel like that
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I'll have to agree with cooking asshole on this one re:douchebags. Which reminds me - Gtally were you attempting to insult me by calling me a plastic doll head?-
what a d-bag
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Thank you for defending me ! dime bags LOL how 1980's.
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I know! that never even crossed my mind...
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Anybody got a d-bag for sale... the 1980s kind?
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Maybe Gtally can hook you up - he seems to know about these things...
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@NP
I got your d-bag right here baby -
I bet you gtally's inn is just a cover for his dimebag operation
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yah - isn't he in Detroit?
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The Feds will be right over to pick it up.
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HAHA! No, Colorado, but I hear the street level dime bags are not too bad there. Thanks gtally!
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make sure they rap on the door three times. That is my code knock for the junkies. -
yes- if you manage not to get shot in the process (Detroit).
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oh I meant colorado...screw detroit
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That doesn't even make sense! "Bloggers area bunch of dime-bags"
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it could mean bloggers are cheap and lowbrow...
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or it could mean they only ever bought dirtweed from guys on the street!
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or that they are mediocre to crappy quality.
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DollinNYC -- I kid, I kid! Who says I was ever serious about anything? And of course I know the difference. Peace to the monkey; peace be to the doll.
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meanie pants
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But I am off to write a nasty, unhinged blog post about you, monkey, like that brains fellow did.
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Don't forget your dime bag !
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hippy
that guy has no brains -
He had brains, I just thought they were made of blue Jello. By the way, steamed artichokes, with either mayo or melted butter, are my favorites. Do you ever eat the heart?
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I am tempted to try them the way cooking asshole makes them!- they look yummy!
cookingforassholes.blogspot.com/2009/05/braised-artichoke.html -
you HAVE to eat the heart...that is the cash money of the artichoke!
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The gods feast on nectar and artichoke hearts. Artichoke hearts are awesome.
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my mum thinks I'm cool -
Hey, folks this is a serious topic, and is of great social and political import.
Quit the goofin' around.....-
we wern't doing anything! We swear!
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What an enlightenment! I seems to agree with you- you're right! Finally someone said it! Oh, I'm so happy! -
Although, BetsyIckes had her point, too!
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I got Cool History / Lit Geek
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no way!
the test was flawed! -
Tis a perfect test!
Go play with your lit...
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I blog so i can have an alibi! Seriously! -
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haha! Loser.
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I would say there is a balance to be maintained. By 'Bloggers' I assume you mean the hard-core bloggers and not the occasional poster.
Some may be in it for the money.... just saying. -
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nerd alert...this is not a drill
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How do you dress in the morning with such a high dork score? Clown shoes per chance?
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you really never did read any part of my blog... or you would have figured that out sooner
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you need more pictures...like diagrams explaining stuff
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I think it docked me for not caring about the I-phone. Also, how rigged was the "naked" question. seriously
Also i may have lost points for being so anal about sock holes -
"you really never did read any part of my blog" Nope
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I scored too high on a few, quirky test. I only knew some of the tech stuff because I have a close friend who talks so much about it that I accidently started to understand it all.
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wow...
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Please, like this surprises anyone.
I saw Star Trek on opening night and was obsessed with Battlestar Galactica. -
shouldn't an architect have higher math scores? just sayin...
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Hey! I am very bright in math thank you.
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Ignore her, Agit8r. She's not royalty like me.
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i guess they average it out w/ science
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I took 2 years of calculus, 1 year of physics and 2 years of building science. I am good at math and science.
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the extent of still's scientific knowledge is appearently the techno-babble they throw into the Star Trek script
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None of the buildings I have worked on have fallen down thank you.
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just giving you crap. I'm sure you know your science just fine -
Though I did work on the Dallas Cowboys practice stadium. That was a freak accident of nature though. We're not required to design for freak accidents like microbursts.
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did you really?
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No, I didn't.
Or did I? (o_O) -
And here I thought I knew a celebrity
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Cowboys suck! Go Redskins!
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under the circumstances, pretty harsh
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Why does yours look different? I would like to see the breakdown please.
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Where do I find it? I don't see the other option.
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It's all the way at the bottom of the page, unless you went to a different page.
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Oh, I took 1.0, not 2.0. How nerdy of me..
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Retake it my nerdy friend.
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LOL!!! All hail the nerd king!
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So if I average version 1.0 and 2.0, I suppose that puts me in about the middle, right?
Right? -
Yes, bow before me, my little Nerdlings!
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sorry nerd king
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The odd thing is, I used to jokingly describe myself as "King of the Nerds" in high school. I was popular and able to move from group to group with ease, but all my closest friends were decidedly nerdy.
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I would fall into that same category but I would never every refer to myself as King of the Nerds just because that is freaking nerdy
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Wow, how did you get nerd king when I think I am decidedly more obsessed with sci-fi than you are. Oh, I don't have anything to do with comic books though, so that may have affected my score.
Well, must be going for the night. Settling in with a Fat Tire and Gossip Girl. -
(Sheepishly)
I do own several graphics novels, so I think that put me over the top. -
Hell, just using the term "graphic novels" instead of "big thick comic books" puts you over the top....
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The Nerd King shall have you executed forthwith for your comic book blasphemy!
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85% scored lower than me for science fiction, 61% scored lower than me for computers/technology and 88% scored lower than me for history/literature. I expect all of you to start referring to me as "Your Majesty."
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i think that the test is full of poop
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Commoner.
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it didn't measure trivia/general knowledge (unless it factored the Jeopardy bit into the Dumb/Dork/Awkward score)
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I took the test and scored so high in the totally cool column, I was embarrassed to show the results to a bunch of nerds.
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By the way Nerd King, I want to tell you-your franchise's fries really suck!
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Now there's two of us!!!
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No way, you both must bow down before the Nerd King!
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Those results just mean they're not not interesting. Cool is code for shallow.
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Hence my moniker: nothing profound.
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no luck in the avatar department?
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@Cook: Nope. Failed miserably again.
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Hmm... I think if they had more art oriented questions I would be an uber nerd, I am just more into creativity than logic I suppose.
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I think as writers, most of us are into creativity. I am a very right brain oriented person. All about creative thinking. That is why I am an architect. I also write, sing, draw, paint, take photographs. I played the violin and piano. I acted in high school and college.
I just happen to also be kind of dorky because I am also very introspective and somewhat introverted.
It's not about logic, taking an interest in history and science fiction is about fascination with the world around you and having very intense imaginations.
Plus, this test was just for fun and my comment about shallow was a joke. -
@stillthinking: If being introspective and creative makes one dorky, then what are the assets of a non-dork?
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These are high school labels anyway. Does it really matter? I always thought of cool as someone who navigates social situations very gracefully. Someone who naturally attracts people to them. A natural extrovert.
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@ stillthinking- I knew it was a joke, I wasn't offended.
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Bloggers are essential to a free society. We give Google AdSense a reason to exist.-
Well Google Adsense sure isn't giving me a reason...I think I'm still about three years from my first check....
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Question: Are bloggers all a bunch of dorks?
Answer: No
- Science/Math 47%
Technology/Computer 71%
SciFi/Comic 39%
History/Literature 92%
Dumb/Dork.Awkward 2%
Uber Cool High Nerd-
Now there's THREE of us, nerd kings!
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you tell me.... -
Yes, I reckon we're all a load of dorks personally. Well I certainly am! -
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NOOOOOO. Most people blog for fun. I blog. You blog. It doesn't make us dorky. We're blogging because we want to broadcast our life to the world. It feels good to know, that someone you don't know at all is reading and is interested in your stuff. -
I don't have to marry any of you nerd kings, do I? Because hubby would be so upset. -
I think the answer depends really on the reason for starting a blog - my reason is money based so would not categorise myself as a dork, however, if this is a persons only outlet in life and they do blogging for fun, then perhaps it could be questionable!! -
There is a huge chunk of people who work out of their home and earn money while blogging.
I am also a part of that community. I dont think all these ppl including me are "dorks".
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get an avatar already!
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Some of these people definitely are dorks.
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I raise your 'some' to 'a bloody lot'.
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I'm definitely a dork. Yes, a proud dorky nerd-girl! -
What's wrong with being a dork?
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Apparently, according to the test, I'm a "Slightly Dorky Nerd"...
... so I guess there's you're answer, DrJay... -
Nerds of the world unite!
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I am handsome and very cool. But also a dork in the fact I can build a website. So I would say yes and no. -
YES, we are dorks! Instead of spending time with live people doing real things, we are here posting comments. DORK DORK! -
depends on the blogger and his blog
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