as top tv shows beating celebrity and entertainment shows reading current affairs and watching documentaries were picked as preferred pastimes over fashion and exercise forty four per cent of the respondents were into computer games comics and scifi four times as many compared to reality tv the surveys purpose explains the agencys blog is to prove how interesting our world has been rendered by geeks their campaign geek is good which wants to change the meaning of the word in dictionaries has sounded the battle horn where would we be without geeks theyre heroes gods saviours at google theyre the new rock stars and those of you who buy the boring socially inept myth where would your own social life be without them ever clicked im attending on a facebook event page geeks made facebook not convinced yet how about we told you that youre well part geek yourself that youve been infected without even knowing the truth can be chilling geekhaters but geek is good says it with finality were all geeks deep down face it were mad for the new star trek films and season 5 of breaking bad we all status update tweet tumble and instagram we set our sky box to record game of thrones all a bit geeky isnt it so say it loud im a geek geeks are not boring or unattractive were what makes the world more interesting and those who cant beat them prefer to join them or embarrass themselves trying another poll also reveals how eight in ten people now lie to appear cleverer than they are and twothirds even pretend to have read deep stuff like orwell and tolstoy deeply sad yeahthe dictionaries want a new definition because theyre beginning to realize how notwithit they are they who have been describing geeks as boring and unattractive people since forever the collins dictionary is apparently tracking the word carefully as they are increasingly encountering the word in contexts other than computing and with increasingly positive connotations says editor ian brookes and the image of geeks as being lightyears away from style can officially take a beating geek chic made its entry into the oxford dictionary last month for many a decade too late as the dress appearance and culture associated with computing and technology enthusiasts regarded as stylish or fashionable have you heard what they say about dressing up for the job you want not the one you have well since the best paying jobs today go to the monkeys who know the most computer tricks it might be time to start dressing like themgeeks are the new rebels because every second longhaired punk hangs out in ripped jeans and lugs a guitar because the geek youre just now planning to mock will probably be a millionaire tomorrow as chris coleman from fashion trend forecasters wgsn was quoted as explaining though geek first appeared as a kind of antifashion statement its becoming bound up with entrepreneurialism selfmotivation and independence