Better terms for watching (and tracking?)

[Mittineague]

My feelings on this subject in a previous discussion

Suggestion to change topic-subscription descriptions

I don’t know. Maybe it has more to do with how much and what meaning one imparts to certain words. To me, “tracking” is a bit more removed than “watching”. That is, if I am tracking (my mind goes to “as in hunting, stalking”) something I may be following it at a distance. I’m interested, and I do hope to catch up to it, but I may not be “on top of it” If I’m watching something, it means I’m right there up close enough to see it at the moment. In any case, I’m not so sure it is the “words” …