Salvete omnes. It’s high time to have a Facebook community for Classics. Thus I’ve created the new group Nerdy Classics Majors. Please check it out.
With a name like that I think your group may be destined to attract a very small membership; even nerds don’t really want to hang out with nerds.
On a minor note, the only majors we have in my part of the world are army personnel.
ETA: I can’t actually access the page anyway.
What’s this website, then? 
As for me, I’ll have to decline. I’m very loath to mix real life with the internet (sorry, but I don’t want to meet up with, call, or text anyone from any forums) and Textkit obviates the need anyway, with its many experienced classics enthusiasts rather than 20-year-old nerdy undergrads.
(e-mail correspondence is a totally different matter)
It’s ironic, I’m assuming.
All, it’s an endearing name like “Computer Geek,” which IT guys cling to affectionately. It’s also a knockoff of two other robust FB groups with similar names: Nerdy Language Majors (almost 2,000 members) and Nerdy Theology Majors (700+ members).
It looks like the meaning of “nerd” may have evolved considerably since I was young. Several decades ago the word was unambiguously derogatory; now it seems to be most often used as badge of honour.
I’m unable to find it endearing, personally.
It looks like the meaning of “nerd” may have evolved considerably since I was young. Several decades ago the word was unambiguously derogatory; now it seems to be most often used as badge of honour.
Victor, it certainly has evolved. I think people started grasping the term affectionally to make it less offensive. Now it’s a badge of honor, and this is evident by 2,000 members now part of Nerdy Language Majors on Facebook who have a very robust community. You should check it out at the very least.
Here’s Nerdy Language Majors: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NerdyLanguageMajors/
And again Nerdy Classics Majors: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1188003901262141/