Do Not Look Now · 26 April 2025
I know why I do not look at my statistics for my websites and social media accounts. They offer no encouragement.
If I was to judge whether I should continue writing based on statistics on my websites and social media accounts, I would have quit long ago. I mean, c’mon. A couple hundred followers on social media after nearly twenty years! (I have more than a couple hundred on Facebook and less than a couple hundred on X. Which by the way, I still have a hard time not calling it Twitter. I mean, c’mon, X!? Anybody else? Probably not. At any rate.)
So much for analytics. (I wonder if that might be a better title for this blog post. So Much for Analytics. Seems kinda catchy. We shall see.)
At any rate.
(By the way, if you have noticed, I use the phrase “At any rate” quite a bit. It is a one sentence paragraph that I stick in there when I abruptly go from one thought to another. It is like my non-transition transition. Think about it. I just write the phrase (it is actually a sentence) and voilà. I can move on to a different thought.)
At any rate.
(See?)
I think that analytics are great. At least in most industries. You can look at your various metrics and use them to decide what to do next. I suppose that I could do that too. I could look to see which of my blog posts get the most views. Then, I could continue to write on those subjects. Seems simple. But I am all over the place on subjects. I write about this, that, and the other. I do not have a single overarching subject. Except me. Except life. I just write about life on this blog. Sometime this. Sometimes that. Sometimes the other. Sometimes without rhyme or reason.
Maybe somebody should come up with a weekly blog prompt. That way bloggers like me who do not have many readers can write about certain subjects certain weeks. They would not need to be experts on anything. They could just write. After all, that is what I do. I am not an expert on anything but me. And life. My life, anyway. I just know what I am and what I do. So I write about whatever comes into my head. (Which might be an interesting subject. Which I am not sure that I have written about it yet. Then again, it might not be so interesting to my readers to read about how I come up with ideas. Especially since it is probably a short subject when it comes right down to it. After all, I just write what comes into my mind. Not difficult to figure that out.)
At any rate.
I forgot where I was. Oh yes. Analytics.
I do not think I will ever use analytics to judge what I write about. After all, I have so little data that there would probably not be much of a pattern to discern anyway. So I will go along blithely ignoring any data that might be out there. Unless of course, I happen to hit upon something that just explodes. But until then, I will just ignore the data (or lack thereof) and continue to write about various topics.
I forgot where I was going with this, but that does not really matter. Because I will not look at the data to see if anybody read this post. After all, my analytics do not offer me any encouragement anyway.
© 2025 Michael T. Miyoshi
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