{"id":877,"date":"2014-09-11T22:49:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T06:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biz141.inmotionhosting.com\/~akweko6\/sacollins.com\/wp\/?p=877"},"modified":"2014-09-11T22:49:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T06:49:23","slug":"the-haze-and-maze-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sacollins.com\/blog-wp\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"The Haze and Maze of Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Haze and Maze of Social Media<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Okay, I’m a techie. I mean, I work in the IT world and all of its variety of devices, servers, and networking security ins and outs. So you’d think that I’d understand how and why my website stats are what they are. But I don’t.<\/p>\n

I check my stats on this site from time to time. My audience is growing – steadily. Not bot combing either. These are actual human web surfing hits – not bot or spider crawls (at least not that I can tell). If they are then they’ve got some serious smart spiders now.<\/p>\n

I checked it today, you wanna know what I found?<\/p>\n

Apparently, I am BIG in China.<\/p>\n

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This one surprises the hell outta me… I like it, but I don’t know what it means.<\/p><\/div>\n

As of today (September 11th) my stats are just shy of hits for the entire month of August. So I know I am gonna surpass it in a day or so. So yeah, my audience is growing. But why China? It’s not like my stuff is in Chinese. I don’t think its Baidu doing the crawling.<\/p>\n

But China surpassed the good ol’ US of A this week.\u00a0 Here’s the rundown –<\/p>\n

1) China<\/p>\n

2) USA<\/p>\n

3) France\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (this one I can sort of understand because well. they’re French for Chrissake)<\/p>\n

4) Canada\u00a0\u00a0 (I LOVE me my Cannucks!)<\/p>\n

5) Some EU country\u00a0\u00a0 (What the fuck does THAT<\/em> mean?!)<\/p>\n

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The Ukraine is next and THEN Great Britain. Sorta wacky weird how this whole thing works. It sort of reminds me when a good friend and I did a short lived podcast back in 2006. We were BIG in Scandinavia. HUGE even according to our stats. Why? I had absolutely no idea. Russia even makes the list. I like Russians. I even went to visit there (this was way before the whole let’s hunt down fags and kill\/humiliate them that is going on now). I feel for my queer Russian brothers and sisters. I wish I could do something to make it all better for you. I really do. Being gay is hard enough, having to live with it in your world, I just can’t fathom it.<\/p>\n

I’d like to think it is my writing (like my forthcoming Angels of Mercy book) that keeps them coming back (because they are repeat followers – not just drive bys). But somehow I think it is the “Inspirational” gallery that keeps them coming back. Who knows. Well, really I guess I could dig deeper and find out. The analytics are there. Just not so sure if I wanna know. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s Marco and Elliot that keep them coming back. I am gonna post another chapter and this weekend I am going to put out a novella form of my forthcoming book that can be read on any e-reader (epub and kindle formats). so keep an eye out for it.<\/p>\n

So yeah, I’ll just keep posting like I do. Just going with my gut on this. I tweet, I post on Facebook (which is where most of my links seem to come from), and I blog here.<\/p>\n

So, I guess I’ll give a big shout out to my followers in China!<\/p>\n

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I hope I did that right. I used Google Translate so please forgive me if I said something stupid like “I will eat your dog” or something insane. I’m just trying to do my best. That wasn’t what I was trying to say at all – just wanted to say HELLO!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m not going to go prattling on about all of this. I just thought I’d give a shout out to my followers beyond the US borders. You’re the best!<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n

SAC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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