Tag: Lurker

Blogging can get monotonous (especially when you hyper specialize in a niche), and when it gets boring you have two choices: plow through boredom and try to find new ways of writing about the old stuff, or give up. This happened to me on a little blog called Lurkers Anonymous. Lurkers was all about how to activate online communities. As I was working in community … [read more]

Let’s take an honest look at ourselves with a little test.  Don’t worry, it’s not a hard test and your honest answers will help you diagnose whether you are in fact a lurker (check out this confession from a real, live Lurker, Virginia Heffernan of the NY Times).  Ready?  Let’s begin: Do you have an account on a social media platform (Facebook, Linkedin, Connected, etc.)? Do … [read more]

Popular web mythology has a pyramid for the unseen masses online.  It looks something like this: 90% lurkers.  That means in a group of 10 people, 9 of them are lurkers.  Who are these faceless consumers of online content that seem to be all of us?   Wikipedia says: “In Internet culture, a lurker is a person who reads discussions on amessage board, newsgroup, chatroom, file sharing or other interactive … [read more]