We're All Stalkers!

[frustratedearthmother]

Occasionally I actually read topics on other PUBLIC forums. I saw someone called a stalker for reading a forum. Can you believe it? Does reading other forums make our lives "thin and uneventful?" Are we reading forums to "gain fuel for evil works and evil words?"

Makes me wonder how so many PUBLIC forums have remained so active for so many years? WE'RE ALL STALKERS!! I guess I'm a stalker and you're a stalker and we're all stalkers!

 

[Finnie]

Only a few ever talk and everyone else just listens

That’s me! I’m the listener, or reader. I rarely have anything to contribute, so I just stay quiet. Unless I have something relevant worth adding. Right @baymule ?

 

[Mini Horses]

Does this all mean I am no longer just a "reader"?

OK then -- a stalker, lurker, sneak up behinder -- take your pick

 

[flowerbug]

Occasionally I actually read topics on other PUBLIC forums. I saw someone called a stalker for reading a forum. Can you believe it? Does reading other forums make our lives "thin and uneventful?" Are we reading forums to "gain fuel for evil works and evil words?"

Makes me wonder how so many PUBLIC forums have remained so active for so many years? WE'RE ALL STALKERS!! I guess I'm a stalker and you're a stalker and we're all stalkers!

i had a completely different idea of what this thread was going to be about (plant stalks )...

 

[Britesea]

The ones who listen, learn.

 

[Hinotori]

Whomever called them a stalker must be older and mistaking the internet for real life. Or they are a troll.

The correct internet term is lurker and has been for decades. Nothing wrong with lurkers. It's the trolls that cause problems. Trolls live off drama and try to cause it. Don't feed the trolls by deigning them with a reply.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I found the whole thing petty and a little bit amusing...but it is what it is!

 

[Hinotori]

Sounds like a troll to me, but I've had Mom get offended at odd things she's seen on the internet because she doesn't understand how things work, so I'd give the benefit of the doubt.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I'd give the benefit of the doubt.

Agree.... what is that bible verse? Something about "turning the other cheek?"

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: [39] But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

I'm not a bible scholar so I hope that's right.

 

[baymule]

My name is Baymule and I am a stalker. LOL LOL