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March 22, 2005

Personal ads for nerds

I think slashdot should have a personal ads section.

The nerd chic factor is definitely visible in the world of internet dating. In a lot of the personal ads people will say they're looking for hot girls in glasses (preferably ones with tattoos although not necessarily a geek tattoo) or girls will say they love nerds, or geeks, or whatever -- hey, I'm one of them, so I Am My Own Target Demographic (I did that in title case just because it sounds like a good name for a book -- maybe the autobiography of an ad man?).

You also seen people in real life wearing I heart nerds t-shirts and there's a car in my neighborhood with the bumper sticker and in fact -- jesus -- now that I'm looking for it, there's all kinds of I heart nerds paraphanalia. If I still smoked dope, I'd definitely get an "I heart nerds" bumper sticker and put it on my bong.

(btw: I've already broken my own rule by linking to something already linked on boingboing ... but it was indendently -- that is, I didn't find it via boingboing. I can see this rule is going to be impossible to enforce).

No doubt, it's only a matter of time before nerds start feeling exploited. But in the meantime, they might as well start exploiting back and get laid out of the deal, right? So, I'm just saying, slashdot should have a personal ads section. I don't even think they should just put up a link to Nerve -- they've got all those coding skills, they could make something much better! One where profiles get scored by moderators, for instance. Actually, it seems like every guy I've dated over the last 5 years has had a plan for building a better Nerve -- I'm surpised there aren't more out there. Another possible site for nerd loving personal ads is the American Nerd Association -- actually, there are a bunch of sites where nerds congregate (not all of them porn), and they could all link back to the mother-nerd-personal ad database which, I'll say again, I think slashdot should do since it seems to me to have the best nerd credentials and popularity combo. Granted, a lot of the people commenting there sound like assholes and tools, but that's true of many regular personals, anyway.

Or maybe this already exists and I'm just not nerdcore enough to know about it. Maybe nerds are hooking up in online multiplayer forums or something? Didn't I read about that in the New York Times Circuits section? Maybe people are finding love through World of Warcraft?.

Speaking of WoW, another idea I had the other day is that they should offer Bugdom as an online multiplayer game (they just brought out a 3-D version). If they had it, then I'd get to play with and talk to my friends via the little IM channel screen thingy and I'd be like, "OMG! It's a blueberry!" and they'd be like, "WTF?! bonk it!" and I would and then I'd be like, "W00T!" and it would rule.

I need a nerd to heart.

Posted by mary at March 22, 2005 2:57 PM

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