Senseless Sunday Sarcasm : Num6er5
Admit it!
We’ve all done it!!
You go to sleep with 1058 readers and wake up to find you now have 1045 for no apparent reason.
In the background, on your 60 inch entertainment center, a news commentator says, “The stock market just crashed! This is the worst depression since 2008!”
But you don’t hear it.
Your gi-normous TV screen is showing people jumping from tall buildings to end it all, throwing bricks into store fronts, looting, screaming,
…and you’re staring at the screen yelling, “What happened to 13 of my followers!”
Somewhere in Florida, it’s snowing in July, but you’re too busy checking out every social media site linked to your blog.
Finally! You look at your Twitter feed and find that the robo-unfollow demon has been very busy eliminating anyone’s followers who aren’t active, so…
…you take 6 hours to scroll through all 5,000 people you’re following and yell out, “Die, sucker!!!” as you delete the 3 bastards that didn’t know they’d unfollowed you.
Only 10 more to go!

Numbers rise and fall,
but Mother’s Day only comes once a year.
…and believe me when I tell you this: You DON’T want to piss off a mother!
Blogging is about OVER!
I started blogging back in 2007. I can’t claim to have been among the very earliest bloggers. It was still new, but definitely already cool, when I started. WordPress was a small, neighborly platform and it was free, claiming to be run by VOLUNTEERS. Ha! Most of the early posts were written words. You know, sentences, like in a newspaper or magazine. Pictures were rare. I blogged for over a year before I posted my first photo.
A popular feature of WordPress was statistics on your blog’s traffic. Readership seemed to grow from week to week. Bloggers became obsessed with our daily traffic counts. Many bloggers trumpeted how to get rich quick by blogging!!! That must have been The invention of click bait.
WordPress felt like a community. It had a daily feature called Hawt Post, featuring particularly good writing. Someone I knew was featured on Hawt Post practically every day. I even made Hawt Post once. What a thrill!
Soon practically every post had at least one photo, and then the number of bloggers grew into the millions, or maybe billions. They canceled Hawt Post. Things change. WordPress was no longer a neighborly place; it became big business.
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter. The bloom faded from blogging. Traffic stagnated, then declined. How could writing be cool, when everyone could post videos on YouTube, and photos galore on Instagram. WordPress started plastering ads everywhere, trying to charge fees for everything. WordPress continues to grow, I think. And prosper, definitely prosper. But now it brags about how many WEBSITES it hosts, not about how many bloggers.
Old blogs fade out, and new bloggers appear. Some old-timers plod on, still writing, once in a while, with moderated enthusiasm. 😩
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The history of blogging by someone who started out when WP was small and personalized. Wow!
Change is unfortunately the way of things. If you copy/paste this, you’d have a ready-made (and informative) post for your blog. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog.
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Thanks for reblogging. 🙂
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Thanks for writing it, Joelle 🤗
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Lol!
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Happy to dispense laughter, a few chuckles, or a smile. 🙂
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Thank you! 😂
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Gosh, looks like I need to update to “password2”! thanks!
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LOL! Definitely update that password. 🙂
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