"But I don't know a single person in the geek demographic who is not freaked out" by large social networks and cyber warehouses of information.
Spying and cyber theft are not freak phenomena; increasingly, they appear to be unavoidable consequences of online access as it now exists.
"Backovers are not freak accidents," Ms Fennell said, adding that in 60percentt of these fatalities, a child's parent or a close relative is driving the vehicle.
These stories are not freak occurrences, every day women face gender related abuse.
His optimism extends to his family, too – he's always interested in what his sons are up to, and isn't freaked out in the same way that other parents of teenagers I know tend to be.
Margaret: It's interesting to me that Shosh isn't freaked out about discussing these things with Ray in front of an audience.
"We are not freaks," he said.
"I hope some shy, insecure, anorexic girls out there see they're not freaks," she said.
Nina Carberry and Hayley Turner are very talented but they are not freaks of nature.
