What is a Fanboy?
Here is the term as defined by Wikipedia: “Fanboy is a term used to describe any individual who is devoted to a single subject in an emotional or fanatical manner, or to a single point of view within that subject, often to the point where it is considered an obsession.” That says everything you need to know about Mr. Pinto. For some unknown reason he has been “social media obsessing” about me for the last few months. His Fanboy site is actually pretty cool focusing on anime, science fiction, science in general among other geek type stuff. I happen to be a Trekkie and the guy has put some cool Star-Trek content up. I have no problem giving his site some props. The guy is still an idiot. It is res ipsa loquitur. Here is why. An article I wrote about former professional wrestler Jeff Gaylord was posted on Digg. The Digg comments are all pretty inane in general, none having anything to do with the story. That is not unusual within the social media universe. The social media community is no
A fanboy is someone who is extremely devoted to a very specific and often limited topic of interest. Fanboys may focus their attentions on comic books, television series, computing platforms, videogames, films, and a wide variety of other topics, and they are often extremely single-minded in their devotion. They are also famous for being rather narrow minded, rejecting opinions and ideas which run contrary to their own, and they can comprise a small but very vocal minority on websites which are designed for fans of various topics, much to the frustration of more casual users. While many people consider the fanboy to be a late 20th century phenomenon, in fact, the word first emerged in 1919, in reference to fanatical followers of comic books. Fanboys would obsessively collect all of the editions of comic books with their favorite characters or by their preferred creators, exchanging information, ideas, and arguments about their topic of interest with other fanboys. Over time, the word b
