LOL 2018 ... Lurker in the house

In our house we know all about lurkers (aka silent readers) because Frank is one :>))

... let me explain ...

I am the household techie ... via education and career. Frank, on the other hand, is a technophobe BUT he is interested in all the content that technology brings. Many years ago at home, we only had a desktop and one email address ... mine ... which he used to read 'our' email (he can do the basics when it comes to computers).

I signed up for a Facebook account over ten years ago, shortly before we moved here from the big city. We'd left behind Frank's very large family and the many friends we had gathered over the years so Facebook was a perfect way to stay in touch with everyone. Pretty soon Frank was reading 'our' Facebook as well.

Not long after our move, our desktop died and I replaced it with a laptop ... see sad Frank ... now it was not so convenient for him to follow all the family and friend activities  or read our digital newspaper subscriptions. All of which meant we got Frank a laptop as well. It became apparent to Frank when I was setting up said laptop that giving him his own Facebook account would not be nearly as interesting as staying on as a lurker to mine ... so a Facebook lurker he remained. He did get his own email address but also continued to read my mail as well when my laptop was connected to the large monitor in the office ... he likes to read, not send email ... without sending, he didn't get much on his own account :>))

Fast forward a bit more ... his laptop died so I bought him a tablet - one with a stylus because he has thick gnarly fingers that do not do the 'swipe' type of action very well (he despises smart phones). He remains a lurker to my personal email and Facebook account to this day ...

When Nora Jean and Frank were born in February 2018, Nora Jean got her own email account ... no Frank allowed :>)) AND the Blog was also born and yes, of course, Frank wanted to read what I was writing but then he also came to enjoy reading all the blogs on my blogroll as well ... so Blogger friends ... Frank is one of your lurkers!

To all our silent readers out there in ttwd Blogland, this is why Frank and I do understand some of the possible reasons for your silence. However, on these special two days of LOL 2018, we encourage you to join the party and make a comment, be it just to say hello or ask a question or two. Frank is going to try to be the one of the first LOL Anonymous commentors on this post ... and maybe I can 'convince' him to comment on a post or two from other bloggers 😉.

Regardless of whether or not you can bring yourself to comment, I am giving you another 'just for fun' opportunity to be heard. I have set up an anonymous little four question ttwd poll, which you can find here (it uses a site called polljunkie.com which gathers and presents aggregate results only). The poll is open until Sun, Nov 18th. I have turned on the option for participants to view the poll results. I will also publish the final results in a post subsequent to this post. If you are a blogger or a commenting reader, you are welcome to take the poll as well.

And if you really, really can't bring yourself to do any of the above, I do understand. All you have to do instead is look down ...

... way down ...

... at the bottom of the post page where it says 'Give me a sign' ...

... here you can unobtrusively check one or more of the boxes (new reader, regular reader, I'll be back) which will let me know you've been here and whether or you think you might be coming back ...

If you haven't done so already, check in with Hermione, at Hermione's Heart ... she will be providing links to all the LOL 2018 participating blogs. 

And thank-you for being here ... silent or not ... without you, I/we wouldn't be here!

... nj (and Frank) ... xx