A little experiment

 

Hopefully not cat-astrophe will happen 😂

Like I said in my last post I have always been a lurker in the different communities I have joined. The Game of Thrones community I mentioned before I only actively participate it during the first 2 seasons of the show and then I read the books, so I already knew what was about to happen.

My modus operandi on online communities is the following:

• Find a group/community that I like
• Join
• Do an intro post
• Comment a couple of times in other post
• Ghost the group
• Provides likes or hearts from time to time.

Then after some time, I will realize that there is no point for me to be part of this community, so I will leave.

Now, as part of this course I will try to be more active in my engagement. I will join 2 groups or online communities where I will be an active member and in another one, I will be a lurker. The purpose of this activity is to see the learning potential these communities can have if used properly.

For this activity I decided to go with fitness as my category: I will join Hurdlers and No excuse runners. Hurdler is a podcast that focuses on fitness, mental health and how to overcome the obstacles of life and recently the author of the podcast decided to do a Facebook group to connect everybody who listens the show. I have listened the podcast for quite some time, and I follow the author on Instagram, so I thought it would be a good addition. I planned to be an active participant in this group. No excuse runners is a Facebook group for runners. People share tips, they latest PR and the races they are training for. I plan to be a lurker in this community.

I am excited to try this experiment and depending on the results it might help me to be more active or continue with my modus operandi.