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Posted on: Tue, Aug 19 2008 1:56 PM

Posted by: Mshores Posts: 203

I'm with Liesl on this...

I don't think it's in my genetic coding to lurk.  I'm pretty sure we should add keeping quiet, not voice an opinion and not helping others wasn't programmed in me either....

Posted on: Tue, Aug 19 2008 2:03 PM

Posted by: Kara Posts: 2,287

 Safe to say I'm not a lurker but surprisingly (to some here maybe given my rambling) I am on other sites. A few things contribute: 1. if everyone just agrees and my post just feels like piling on another. 2. if the forum moves SO fast that if I only check it a couple times a day I have no chance of keeping up or finding previous threads I participated in 3. if I'm a little interested in the subject but don't feel like I have all that much to contribute oh and if there are alot of forum inside jokes...that steers me away too.

Lucky for me....I haven't encountered any of those things here.

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Posted on: Tue, Aug 19 2008 2:35 PM

Posted by: Darius Posts: 4

No I am not a Lurker but I understand how someone could be!!

Posted on: Tue, Aug 19 2008 10:00 PM

Posted by: beckywatson49 Posts: 425

 Ah to be a lurker or not to be....that is the question

I was a lurker for a long time but then found something I just had to comment on and that was the beginning. of the decade plus years I have been using the internet  this is the first site I have actually felt comfortable about posting anything and sharing with people I don't know personally.

I think our lurking habit come from trust questions. so many time I have tried to take part in conversations and have been totally overlooked or ignored. I was worried that disaboom would be the same way.

 How wrong I was.....for all its imprefections it is a community of people who can share their difference and their disabilities  with no worry about being the only one. In disaboom our disabilies are not barriers...they are membership badges.. and the imperfections we have to deal with daily are OK with those we meet here.

 So i would say to all who lurk...take your time, don't have to rush but join the discussions you are interested in and deal with your health concerns, You may be the exact person some else needs to talk to or share a answer to a day to day questions.

blessings

Becky W

Posted on: Wed, Aug 20 2008 7:13 PM

Posted by: PerfectlyImperfect Posts: 817

I'm not a lurker of the site in general, but there are threads that I follow regularly, but haven't contributed to yet. Will I in the future? Who knows. As of yet I either have nothing worthwhile to contribute, or it's something that I don't feel strongly enough about to bother commenting, but I still find it interesting.

Posted on: Wed, Aug 20 2008 8:45 PM

Posted by: PerfectlyImperfect Posts: 817

ArkanzanWheeler:

HAHAHAHA! That was hilarious, Ark!