Facades of #Fakebook

I started blogging because I wanted to create a record of my life: where I had been, where I was going and all that I had experienced in between.

I guess I assumed that some other peeps less fortunate than I or others with similar interests may derive some joy out of seeing or reading about my little adventures. But mostly I started blogging for two good, honest and genuine reasons:
1) I love to write
2) I want to remember.

And when I started I genuinely felt that it did not matter a whole lot if anyone or no-one ever actually read what I was writing or clicked on the video links.

But at some stage there was  a shift. I started using Facebook to promote my blogs and that was a mistake. Like billions of others I fell immediately into the Facebook trap: how many likes or views did this story get. Interestingly I found that the hit rate or click ratio of direct loads to Facebook vs embedded links into Facebook status were strongly divergent and not in my favour. In short, no-one or very few people clicked on the blog links. Why would you? Why read about a 40 something biological consultant's trip to the Gulf country in Queensland when you can laugh your ass off over #CatFails. As a consequence, and straying ever further from my original intent, I actually started posting longer and longer 'updates' and also started uploading videos direct to Facebook. I was basically spamming my friends.

Today I had a small moment of reckoning when I did to someone exactly what I hate having done to me. Even though I know it bores people stupid to have a mobile phone youtube clip shoved in their face, I did just that: I insisted a mate endure a video I made of the capture of a rather impressive varanid. What was so much worse than my insistence on his watching it was that the video kept pausing and buffering: I reckon it would have been less painful for him to have his teeth pulled.

Anyway, enough is enough; I have decided to commit Facebook harakiri before I disappear totally up my own bottom .

If you want to see what I am up to then follow my blog. If you don't, I don't care because it simply means your life is as full and complete as mine. If you do follow my blog, then I hope you get a little kick out of the words, the pics and the vids.

The fact that I have 122 blogs, only 13,000 reads over nearly 18 months and not a single subscriber should be evidence enough that I am only doing this for me and I'm cool with that.