Wikipedia describes this term as "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." How do you become this obsessed? What responsibilities are required of a "fanboy"?
Just as an example, not to point out any person in particular, lets say we had an Apple fanboy. What would be some characteristics of an Apple fanboy?
| Items that would be on the fanboy or within 7 feet at all times: | MacBook (only the newest "metal" one), iPhone (3G), Apple iPod earphones |
| Lifestyle changes from pre-fanboy: | Constant access to the internet, music, email, instant messaging, and Twitter |
| Frequented websites of the fanboy: | macrumors, appleinsider, techcrunch |
| Words commonly used by the fanboy: | zomg, plzkthxbai, probs, maybs, poss, n00b, ijwd (abbreviation for "i just wanna dance"), lolz |
| Customary activities of the fanboy: | blogging, coding, geeking |
| Heroes: | Steve Jobs |
| Favorite Drinks: | Red Bull |
| Topics they love to talk about: | New Apple technologies (the ambient light sensor, the no button track pad and how it will probably get a firmware upgrade soon, how the metal laptop is lighter and slimmer than the previous versions, the battery that takes a long time to charge, etc...) |
| Life Goal: | Be a hax0rz |
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