Today in my Digital Media class we had a discussion about what roles users fall into, and they were grouped into three categories:
Creators (People who make post) (About 1% of users)
Synthesizers (People who share and comment on posts) (about 10% of users)
Lurkers (People who look at the content but do not interact with it) (about 90% of users)
In addition to this we talked about the value that lurkers have, and how even if they lurk in one place, what they learn from it may encourage participation and content creation in other places. As someone who mostly lurks with the occasional comment on most things, I'm curious to see how much of Hubski's base is like me. I know if the past there have been lurker roll calls
but I want to know how it works out now.How often do you make posts on Hubski? What about comments? And do you make posts on any other sites, if you don't here?
I'd like to take this opportunity to be perfectly honest. There was an ask reddit thread that asked why lurkers lurked and I really wanted to say it then, but, given my lurkeryness, didn't.
For me it takes quite a lot to build up the courage to comment. I'm just too paranoid of saying the wrong thing and having the excitement of someone replying snatched away with hate mail. I'll usually try to be as neutral as possible. I usually only ask for help on audio engineering and edm subreddits and gearslutz, only when I'm in a real fix. Expressing any part of my personality freaks me out, so i try to stick with the raw data.
Even saying "lurkeryness" as a relaxed form of slang is a little unnerving. But I quite like hubski. For some reason I feel more relaxed around you guys. Although, it has been a while since I last posted here, life just got in the way.
I also get distracted very easily, and find it difficult to properly finish a train of thought. I think of tonnes of things all at once then try to connect everything then and there and it gets overwhelming. I've tried keeping a blog several times. Maybe one day it will work.
Finally, I mostly use aggregators for news, so I'm happy just scrolling through.
Anyway, I'm going to try and come out of my shell a bit more :)