I just posted this on my new Facebook page --
Sage, Scribe & Quill...
Throughout my considerable internet experience, from my very first website, the Freewebs version of The Witch's Corner that hit close to 1,000,000 viewers before Freewebs wasn't free anymore, to blogs, and other websites created on a variety of platforms, there has always been a ghostly presence of invisible silent visitors.
When I was getting ready to deactivate my Facebook Witch's Corner page, I made a post letting people know that this would be happening. I decided to do this because I felt that I was posting to no one but myself. Of the 40,000 people who Liked or Followed this page, almost none -- practically 0 -- ever, ever left a comment or clicked a post reaction button. I honestly thought that this page just wasn't making the algorithm and wasn't being seen at all.
Much to my surprise, a lady left a comment on this post, something to the effect: "I love this page and followed this page for years, I'm sorry to see you go, but you do what you think you need to do."
Seriously?
She loves the page, but never clicked a reaction button, never left a comment, never gave any indication that she had seen anything.
Here I was thinking that I was wasting my time posting and keeping this FB page up, that no one was seeing it anyway. I tell you, my reaction, sitting there at my computer all by my little lonesome, was very colorful.
I don't know what else to say. It's not that me, or any other creator, is looking for tons of accolades and constant pats on the back. We just want to know that doing all this work is worth the effort, that someone is reading what we write, viewing what we post, has been impacted with it in some way, that someone has gotten a chuckle from something, or connected with something.
Otherwise, we might as well all go back to the old-fashioned days of spiral notebooks and private journals.
