Cathy,

In looking at the list, I get curious about some of the members.  The ones who have been members for a long time, post regularly, and then disappear off the face of the earth.

Hey!  An idea for a forum requirement.  "All family members, not otherwise posting, shall be required to check in once a month with a 'well-being' report."  We'll have to come up with some kind of punishment for non-compliance. 

Vance

 

Thank you! I'm thinking VanMar is joking. To me though, you get used to seeing someone around posting and then suddenly they are gone, well, you just always wonder what happened to them. I know when we have relocated, I have tried to let those that might care, where we have went and how things are going. I've seen "Guests" logged in from China, UK, Ukraine and a few other surprising places. As a child I used to sit and go through the phone book looking at all the numbers and names and thought it was the most fantastic thing I had ever seen. I am easily entertained.

I actually have been thinking a lot of someone who was very active and then suddenly disappeared. I sent her a PM but didn't get a response. Should I post here (new subject of course) whether anyone has heard from this member?

For this particular Forum, I have the following settings for members:

0 Posts = Lurker

1 - 24 Posts = RV-Dreams Community Member

25 or More Posts = RV-Dreams Family Member

It doesn't mean anything other than to distinguish levels of participation.  :)

If one looks further into the list of users, one finds that there are a LOT of folks that have registered but have not posted but maybe once or twice.  I guess some simply came and registered in order to ask one or two questions and then moved on.  Or, they might have read enough of the experiences of others to get the idea that this life isn't for them.

Who knows, but it is disconcerting to see a fairly active user disappear for a long period.  It makes me begin to speculate that they are having to deal with serious illnesses in their family, or even worse, have passed on.  After all, being an RV Dreams "family" member is just that.  We are a family with the same concerns for the others as it would be in our own families.

I recall the words of Glenn Beck when talking of family one time.  His daughter that has special needs began to talk of her "family of the heart."  When Glenn asked her about that, she replied that she had her "blood" family to which she was literally related to, but that all those acquaintances that she had grown to love, otherwise known as friends, were her "family of the heart."

Terry