Blanchard reading..question D
‘Lurkers’ are in a way, a large part of the online community, in my opinion, because they do not necessarily leave comments, messages or opinions after visiting and reading what others have written, but they are, nevertheless, present. Perhaps it is the hits, or how many times viewed something is, that is how lurkers are found out, but these numbers are important because they are used somehow. So surely without lurker’s making the ‘hits’ and ‘view’ times larger, peoples blogs and online writings wouldn’t be as popular, and, perhaps even, as well known or spread.
Besides, I would see ‘Lurkers’, metaphorically, as the people in ,say for example a business meeting or focus group, who are present, involved, and listening, but will make no comment or opinion on anything said. They are important because they are there and taking everything that is said into account, but their non-opinionated way doesn’t make them seem any less important. It only shows how there ARE different roles for members of the online community just as there are in ‘real life’ communities.
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