Good morning! Kirk here. This post is a follow up to a very nice post William did on the same topic:
Thanks again to William and everyone who commented at the time for your kind words. At that point, though, we were still shy of the “5,000 likes” mark. Last night, however, we passed it so I thought I’d write a bit about the current “State of the Page,” so to speak.
I don’t know who number 5,000 was; if I did, I suppose I would have to give them some prize, like what is given to the unsuspecting customer who walks into a store and gets showered with confetti because they’re deemed to be number 1,000,000 or something. But, alas, I have no prizes to offer, just gratitude to the other editors (whose posts are often considerably more popular than most of mine) and you readers/participants for being so nice.
The page has been quite peaceful this year. I upset some people with my rather ill-conceived April Fools post but the negative feedback was reasonable and civil, which I appreciated. Other than that, the page has been quite peaceful. Even more discussion and interaction would be nice but I hope we can maintain this friendly, respectful atmosphere well into the future.
Even though the number of “likes” has grown over the years, I think the number of active readers/participants has reached the level of saturation. Individual posts are typically seen by just a few hundred people and the total daily “reach” (number of sets of eyeballs) for the page has been pretty steady over recent years at a little over a thousand or so. Even if we collect a few more “likes,” I doubt that the active readership will grow much in the future. In fact, because the younger generation seems to be abandoning Facebook for other platforms, we may even wind up shrinking a bit in terms of actual readership. For that and other reasons, I’m still looking for another platform, not to replace Facebook but to add to it.
Thanks again for participating!