There is definitely a social scene in geekdom now with its own zeitgeist that is independent of underlying intellectual factors. Using the terms from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, geeks used to inhabit just the intellectual plane (although like any gathering of people, there will be some social aspects to their behavior).

Nowadays, with so many self-promotion and socialization tools out there (and which capture so much of our attention), geekdom is as much a social phenomenon as an intellectual one.