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All this proves is that geeks think about things very differently than normal people.

• nostrademons 17y ago
  Also: that geeks are getting laid now, just like normal people.
  • potatolicious 17y ago
    "Google user" = "geek" now?
    • nostrademons 17y ago
      I was initially going to write "Also: that geeks are much more numerous now", and on reflection that may've been a better observation. Yes, Google users are geeks. Think back to the 1980s, or even the early 1990s. If anyone had suggested then that you type a few words into a box onto your computer screen to ask how to impress a girl, they'd be branded with "OMG you are such a geek." Except that "OMG" was itself a geek thing then. More likely, they'd be punched in the face. It's amazing how standards have changed in 15 years, and how what was dorky then is normal now, and what was normal then is hopelessly out of date now.
    • houseabsolute 17y ago
      This may be what the person responding to you meant. What I meant was that geeks as in privacy geeks have a mentality (as displayed in this article) that is far different than what a normal person feels. No one I was with said anything about finding the ad creepy, and many of them said it was sweet. All I meant to say was that this article just demonstrates that you should let a guy like it's author be in charge of your marketing, unless people like the author are the only customers you wish to attract.