There are far more Lurkers than we realize<\/span>. You who are reading this are probably a lurker. I have to admit that I also do my share of lurking (except for this blog).<\/p>\n There are may reasons to lurk Perhaps I missed one? Let’s here yours. (almost got ya didn’t I?)<\/p>\n Those who are not Lurkers may wonder what one looks like. Well just the other day I found this one reading here, clicking there but not commenting anywhere.<\/p>\n I see some of you lurkers are taken aback by my level of awareness of your presence. Because you have stayed with this post all the way to the end I will tell you one of us bloggers<\/span> little secrets. See the little picture in the upper left corner of this page (the one of the dowdy<\/span> family hosting this blog)? Well it’s not a regular picture, it’s like those windows that look like they are covered by an advertisement<\/span> but if you go inside you don’t see the advertisement<\/span> – you can see out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dictionary.com defines it as;<\/p>\n “to read or observe an ongoing discussion without participating in it, as in an Internet newsgroup“<\/p>\n There are far more Lurkers than we realize. You who are reading this are probably a lurker. I have to admit that I also do my share of lurking (except for this blog).<\/p>\n There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
wanting to remain<\/span> anonymous<\/span>
because it’s too much trouble to put in your own 2 cents
you feel you don’t have anything to contribute
you’re sure if you post you will be inundated<\/span> with spam offering to improve your sex life and the opportunity to help a poor Nigerian monarch with his too much cash problem . .<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.thechristys.net\/uploaded_images\/lurker-793704.jpg\")
He was lurking while he should have been studying<\/span>. He was in class, all the way in the back lurking on this very site while IMing<\/span> a footreader<\/span> (he is from the southern hemisphere<\/span>) in Auckland<\/span>.<\/p>\n