"Blargon" - I think I may be a "blurker"...

I think...I am a blurker!

I blog lurk...I admit it...and that is called blurking.

We have all our friends and family listed on the sides of our blogs...and - I click on the links!

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"Blargon"

Kel Richards writes:

In his New York Times column “On Language” William Safire recently referred to “blargon” – by which he meant blogger’s jargon – the jargon used by bloggers about their blogs.

It turns out that a “blurker” is someone who lurks on a blog: a blog lurker is a “blurker”.

I’ve reported in the past on some of the jargon words that have developed around weblogs (or “blogs”) and those who write them (“bloggers”). For instance, I recently mentioned “blook” – this being a book based on a blog. Now I come across one that is new to me – “blurker”. It turns out that a “blurker” is someone who lurks on a blog: a blog lurker is a “blurker”. Someone who reads many blogs but leaves no evidence of himself behind, or reads an online forum conversation without making a contribution, is a “blurker”.

The word is recorded in the third edition of Paul Dickson’s book “Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms.”
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I've learned a LOT by blurking!

One of my dear friends won the sweetest dress ever for her little Granddaughter because of a contest I read about on another blog!

I've gotten some of the BEST recipes by blurking.

And I've found that the friends of my friends - not to mention the friends of my children's friends - are some of the nicest people!!!

Hmmm - maybe I'm not a true blurker - because sometimes I do post - I just have to say "Thank you" for the recipe or share a ((hug)) - and - I hope you don't mind - SMILE