Keeping a blog is a responsibility, and I gladly take it on every week. Being a blogger in a world full of bloggers has one large problem in the way: making it worthwhile. Some people get no followers of their blog, while others have followers off the charts. I’m somewhere in the range that has no true meaning, because nobody looks at the people in eleventh place. Sometimes people are curious to find out who is at the very bottom of the popularity list, and it may not be that a blogger sitting in last place is a bad blogger, but they may have no wherewithal to obtain a massive following.
Some people are natural people magnets; they blink double and hordes of people notice. Others could stand naked on a street corner and nobody would bat an eye. There is no true explanation for this phenomenon, but when you take on a task that requires recognition, like keeping a blog, the how and why do matter a great deal.
My biggest issue right now is with Facebook (or should I say Meta). It appears I have been permanently banned from boosting my blog on my Facebook page. The first time it happened, I tried to determine the cause, and I figured out that, even though our world was dealing with a disease, I could not use terminology about it in my posts without being flagged. Let me give an example: let’s say the word “tingle” is associated with a global crisis, and I wrote something that ended with “while we’re dealing with this tingle.” Facebook put me in “jail” for a month just for using the word “tingle.” I didn’t give an opinion on “tingle,” and I didn’t post any false information about “tingle.” Still, mentioning it was apparently a naughty thing to do. Suddenly I found myself permanently banned from post boosts, so other than standing in a public place with a sandwich board with my page info on it, my ability to obtain more followers is a bust.
A blogger without publicity at their fingertips is blogging for their own amusement, and that’s not what I originally set out to do. However, as anybody on the platform knows, trying to communicate with Meta is like standing on a soapbox and giving a speech; you’re lucky if anybody pays attention to you at all, unless you pay the audience. And I can’t even do that.
So it looks like Meta doesn’t care about me or my money. Fortunately my readers care enough to view my posts every week, and I am grateful for all of you.
The month of June will be more challenging than normal, so you may see a post on a Friday or Sunday on occasion, but I do intend to post as I’ve resolved to do, and I will be happy if three people read them. Or 30. Or 300 if I’m lucky.
The thought of more zeros added to my viewership numbers is always a possibility. The anticipation of that possibility makes me tingle all over.
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