A lurker is one that looks at everyones profile and reads old posts from various individuals and finds out what town they are from, their birthdate, where they work/and or go to school and jots it down for further use..haha
Iv'e Done That On Many Occasions, But It Was Only So I Could Form A Mental Picture Of People On Here And In Doing So Make A More Appropriate Response To Their Thread Or Post. Honest It Was... Cheers Glen.
I used to lurk. This is actually my second account, i forgot the password of my first one then i was too lazy to sign up again. It diddn't really bother me i don't seem to be noticed anyway.
On the TV show Babylon-5 a lurker was a homeless transient who lived in the down-below section of the space station Hotwater