I thought a geek was based on interests mostly

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Well, a person that I met on minecraft that I message on Skype said to me, "You're a geek, aren't you?"
I said yes, and asked about what made him now ask this.
I expected him to say something about me being in band, or liking pokemon and minecraft, or having a large vocabulary or something. He said yes to those, but it was mainly that I was there, on Skype. I asked how being on Skype indicated a geek, and he said:

"it is that you are always on here. When you talk about your life it is minimal to none socialment. Those moments when you do talk about being with your friends, it usually has to do with videogames. The only things you do talk about is school, videogames, and friends with school or videogames."

It's true, and I suppose that is kind of geeky, but I thought that other things would've been more so.
What do you consider to be defined as a geek or nerd? If they're different, please explain.

It kinda doesn't matter what we think the definitions are, it's NeuroTypicals that make and use and modify the language's working definitions, only very rarely do they use words exactly by any dictionary definition.
Webster had to have been Autistic. I mean he went and got all those definitions, he even alphabetized it for chrissakes!

Besides 'geeky' and 'nerdness' are pretty fuzzy and abstract artificial social constructs. =/

At least you're socially competent enough to have a conversation, be thrilled about that! =)

That is quite true and quite annoying that people just try to change the definitions of things...
My friend just moved and now goes to a school with kids who bully in a way that people born in the 21st century really don't typically bully like anymore, and they complained about her using "big words." (the big words part is typical)
Knowing words of your native language isn't needed to be complained about, and knowing more of them is best, because then you're not cramming together definitions onto a word that it doesn't belong with!

Except NTs don't use words by the definitions, they just say they do.
NT's use words because they like them, because they think that how the word makes them feel, it will then communicate that feeling/meaning to others.
They don't really choose words for content or dictionary meanings.
And for the most part that works for them.

Everybody thinks/says having a large and accurate vocabulary is a good thing, but they're wrong. What NTs really mean by that is that you get to talk with lots n lots of people, wheee! how fun! aren't you smart! (popular=smart).

Dorks made dictionaries, dorks wrote the definitions, dorks read dictionaries for fun (yes, yes, I do), dorks talk in dictionary definitions.
NTs do none of these things, can you see the communication flaw now? =(