A Geekster, would be someone in their late teens, early twenties, who the Geeklings would look up to,(even tho' he/she doesn't know everything yet, but just happens to impress).

@Scott, Thanks for suggesting movie channels. I those have information content where one can learn something, that would be interesting. But plain old movies that someone dreamt up is not along my lines. Last time I went to the movies was in 1964 - and that was in one of the theatres on the Champs Elysee. They were showing Dr. Zhivago.

So does that make me a geekster? Facebook is a bit overrated.

:P
I enjoy facebook, if only a good way of catching up with friends and sharing pictures of good times!

whs said 'I am with you. I never looked at this stuff either. But this thread is very educational - at least now I know what I don't want to look at.'
That is very interesting, I've only seen about 2 episodes of the show and didn't like it but I have constantly heard about the show in television commercials and the local television news in the last few years.
I didn't think it was possible for someone who watched television to miss hearing about the show as it's a very popular show.

whs said 'jd, I do watch TV (about 50 commercial free channels in Europe). I just don't watch commercial TV'
That would explain how you missed this show as Extreme Makeover is a commercial reality TV show on the ABC television network.

whs said 'stations that constantly do "fund drives"'
I can only assume you are talking about the Public Broadcasting Network (PBS) and if so I don't understand your issue with them.
PBS has to do "fund drives" as it is very expensive to run a national broadcasting network and our government and other organizations do not provide the funding necessary to run the network.
It's quite possible other countries provide the necessary funding for their Public Television Networks(s) but that just is not the case here.
The reason that they constantly do "fund drives" is because too many people in this country will not pay for Public Television when they can get commercial television for free.
Also it's only constant during a certain time period of the year, most of the year PBS has no "fund drives" to speak of.
Should there be another network doing "fund drives" that I'm not aware of then I would like to know what it is.

whs said 'that leaves C-Span'
C-SPAN is totally different from PBS.
C-SPAN is not a national channel, it is a Washington D.C. Local Channel that is broadcast by cable companies to peoples homes.
Unlike PBS there is no free way to obtain C-SPAN. For PBS any television you buy will be able to pickup the PBS television signal in your area if you are close enough to the affiliate.
For C-SPAN you always have to pay a cable company to get the channel.

whs said 'and the local channel of our county as only options.'
Indeed it would.

whs said 'And for that, it is not worth paying $50 per month.'
Indeed it's not worth that but it does not come close to $50 a month at all.
Most cable companies are required by the government (City, County, State and/or Federal) to provide a low cost package with all the over-the-air and public channels.
Comcast in Seattle, WA is one place that has this, for $15 a month you can get the over-the-air channels like ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and PBS and also cable channels like C-SPAN, NASA and a couple other public access channels.
The thing is that companies are not required to advertise that this package is available and Comcast for Seattle will not list this package.
If you go to their web site and type in a Seattle zip code, they will list a $60 package as the minimum available.
You have to call Comcast to set up this limited package.
From what I've read on the internet, most cable companies are like this.
If you call the local cable company in your area and ask if they have a low cost package, the answer 99% of the time is yes.
The price only goes from $15 to $60 because you have extra premium channels like MTV, Discovery Health, Discovery Home, The Science Channel, Turner Classic Movies, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Fox Sports, etc.
The $15 package is about 28 channels while the $60 adds about 200 channels or so.
It only makes since that a for-profit company like Comcast would only advertise their 200 channel package as it makes them the most money. Doesn't make it right though :-(