Lurkers

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lady_branwyn was recently discussing a recent article in an online pub called AlertBox. She mentions this in her entry:

In any on-line community, participation follows a 90/9/1 rule, where 90% of users lurk and never participate, 9% of users participate occasionally, and 1% of users seem to have no life outside of the Internet...

It really made me wonder about how LJ fits in with that. I mean, a lot of people don't comment on the flist even though they read it, but they have journals, which is definitely some form of participation.

I just can't imagine that people are even looking at my LJ without being friended. I mean, sure, passing glances, but I can't imagine much more than that. With the above formula, it would imply that a thousand people are watching this journal and not interacting. Or perhaps I'm completely wrong, and it's really the people who have me friended but don't comment who are considered lurkers.

In any case, I just have this feeling that in LJ, at least in fandom, that there are fewer lurkers/a lower percentage of lurkers.

Anyone else have thoughts on this? Anyone track non-LJ users or non-LJ friends who hit their LJ? Any figures?