Re: [Air-l] we need a better word than lurking

Once I asked my group mate why she didn't post in blogs and forums and she answered that she was a "looker". "Lurker" - I said correcting her as she was not much aware of Internet terms. "No, I prefer "looker" as I rather prefer to look at others' posts than write myself" - she said. It seems like she anticipated this discussion although she is absolutely profane in Internet and Internet-related research. Alexander Semenov. P.S. I've always known that Erving Goffman is "the must" sociologist to apply for Internet-research =). <http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html>