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< The Fluctuating Coolness of Geekdom
Thanks to my private goddess of bitly nirvana I have never been "cool", or "geek" --- don't even know how to recognize geekness. Checking wikipedia did not help. I can say, that a fellow traveller called me "hardcore nerd" a few years back. Although I'm old enough, I never participated in some culture netnews/irc/bulletin board/forum/facebook/twitter/whatever thing. I'm boring, and that keeps me out of trouble.
In other words: I have no clue, what you are trying to say.
"geek culture" refers to the culture of those whose interests would be described as niche or strange by the general population. Interests such as: computers, the internet, history, video gaming, obscure film, literature, science fiction, etc.
"cool" refers to the types of people and things considered of value or interesting to the general population. Anyone can see what these might be in their time/place.
Also, the things you listed are all wildly different types of things, some of which are quite "geeky" (like IRC) and some of which are exceptionally not so, at least at present (Facebook, Twitter).
I am assuming you included this hoping I would explain. If not, I would wonder why you chose to comment that you didn't understand