FOWC with Fandango — Stats
This is a good time of year to look at statistics. It’s just past the middle of the year and in theory, it should give you a reasonably good idea what the year will look like. But my stats have gotten pretty erratic and I have bursts of big numbers, then occasionally surprisingly low numbers … and we are still hoping to go on vacation next week which will probably mean a nearly zero week for the numbers game.
I really shouldn’t care. I’ve been at this a long time and I know that stats don’t mean much except when they dip very low and I realize WordPress has disappeared me from their database.
Again.

Overview. I had 1500 additional Facebook followers a couple of weeks ago as well as 2000 more Blog followers. I wonder where they went?
I’ve had years when I got a huge explosion of big numbers from them and years when I get almost nothing. For reasons I don’t understand, about 1000 of my Facebook followers have recently vanished along with about 2500 blog followers. Not sure what that’s all about but I haven’t cared enough to follow the trail of crumbs and see what’s going on. It would require yet one more annoying conversation with their Happiness Engineers.
Aren’t those people embarrassed by that title? I would be ashamed to tell anyone I was a Happiness Engineer for WordPress or for that matter, for anyone.
But I suppose a paying job is a paying job and these days if you get one that pays the most of the bills and keeps and your family living in a house with heat, light, and a roof that doesn’t leak, you’re doing fine.
We used to have higher standards, but as time as marched on and things like “raises” have become scarcer than hen’s teeth, we are just happy if we manage to keep even.
Now that we are on a fixed income, we can’t even count on staying even. In theory, Social Security pays “cost of living” raises to its recipients, but whenever Congress is feeling poor, the first people whose “cost of living” that mangle are retirees. After all, we are old and therefore we don’t need anything, right? Like … you know … food. Medication. A home. A car. We just need a little, dark room in which to quietly disappear.
If we would just stop doing annoying things like voting, we could be completely dismissed.
Except we do vote. More than any other age group, we vote. Moreover, we think about voting well in advance of doing it. We actually watch the news with all the advertisements for medications we can’t afford, reverse mortgages that will ultimately leave us living on the sidewalk, how to sell off our life insurance, and how to sue people who have ripped us off.
Can we sue the Federal Government? They are the biggest ripper-offers of all time.
In God we trust. We might as well trust in God because we sure can’t trust the people we elected. Or other people elected. I’m sure I didn’t elect them!
Stats. I have pretty decent stats. I don’t work at them anymore and when the numbers drop into low digits, I shrug. Tomorrow will be better. Probably. If it isn’t, does it matter?
All of this mattered more years ago when I was trying to establish a “base.” Now? I’ve got one. It isn’t gigantic, but it’s not tiny, either. If I keep writing, someone will read me. Maybe someone who matters will read me. Maybe I’ll make a difference.
I would like to make a difference, though I’m not sure what that means anymore. The world in which I live is twirling on its ear and the future is looking a bit abbreviated.
Categories: #FOWC, Daily Prompt, database, Fandango's One Word Challenge, Humor, Marilyn Armstrong, Statistics, WordPress
As of today I have about 81% of the views I received in the entire year of 2018, so I guess I’m on track to blowing through my stats for last year. Not that I pay attention to my stats, mind you. 😏
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None of us pay any attention to our stats.
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Suddenly I have received NO posts since yesterday — my inbox is usually full in the morning, but not so today! How do I contact the Happiness Engineers?
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Look for a “help” button on your “dashboard” page. If you can’t find one, try writing via their help pages. Sometimes they a help button, sometimes, not.
I’m missing at least 3,000 followers at the moment.
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Thanks! After I wrote the above, new posts began to come through again! I will look for a help button, but am assuning for now that there was something going on at Cox or at Microsoft that caused the problem.
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My posts no longer go to Facebook, so 100% of my FB followers are gone…
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I send mine manually to FB, but at least a thousand are gone and more alarming two or three thousand blog followers are missing. I think they are having issues with their database again.
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They might be.
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This would NOT be the first time here or in England. I used to get all bent out of shape about it, but now, I figure if I just wait, eventually they will work it out. Besides, I just can’t handle the aggravation of another conversation with a Happiness Engineer. Last time they explained that I had lost more than half my followers overnight because I didn’t write well. I haven’t recovered from that yet.
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Of course thousands of people would chose the exact same moment to unfollow a blog that they no longer like. It’s a vast conspiracy that spans continents. I can see why you don’t want to talk to a “Happiness Engineer” about it. Great for the ego.
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Happiness Engineers is a corny name at the best of times and for these people it’s ridiculous.
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What you write does matter.
Leslie
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Not with WordPress. They REALLY don’t care.
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Then WP doesn’t matter….
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