The Internet, I"M doing it wrong!

[vixalicious]

So I keep seeing all these bandom-related "hi if you're a lurker, please say hi now" posts, which is awesome, but has brought me to a dilemma:

Am I a lurker????

I have people on my flist that I friended because I like their fic, and I comment on most of the stuff they write, and occasionally on their personal posts, but I don't really KNOW them. Does that make me a lurker? Should I say hi? I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!!!!!!!!

Hee. Internets are confusing.

Comments

[purple-hazed.livejournal.com]

ha! This is the same problem that I have all the time!! It sounds like you have the right balance because you do comment, but you don't write too much..................but then I'm not the best person to judge but i had to comment because I have wanted to write posts like this so many times!!

[vixalicious]

I have been choosing to inflate my own importance and not comment, because I usually comment when I friend someone so they know why I friended them, and in my mind, that makes me NOT a lurker.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think you're a lurker. I am, in some places. Selective lurker.

[vixalicious]

It's weird, I think my problem is that I don't consider anyone who has me friended as 'lurking' - I can see them, I know they're there, even if they don't comment, right?

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd say so. There are people on my flist I'm mutually friended with but we just don't talk much, for whatever reason.

[harriet-vane.livejournal.com]

You don't seem like a lurker to *me*. IDK. I lurked for years -- proper lurking, no journal at all.

[vixalicious]

Thanks! I comment more on your journal than probably anyone else in bandom, but that could just be because you bring all the fun :)