'FACEBOOK' IS CLOSED BOOK

Having tried 'FACEBOOK' in the past, the old geezer thought he would give it a go again.  Odd how we tend to forget why something was left before, only to have to re-visit the mistakes made in past over and over again. 

When me blog was young, and the old geezer was desperate for readers, 'FaceBook' seemed like the perfect tool to capture the attenton of folks and get more hits for blog.  Truth be told, it worked.  And were one to be completely honest, the hits to me blog did go up again when 'Facebook' was re-joined.  The problem is how much time it takes to wade through all of the 'updates' that land on your 'wall'.  It hardly seems worth it.

The number of hits from folks has stayed constant.  The initial jump of hits from 'Facebook' is long gone and more seem to find the old geezer in a different way.  "Google" is still the biggest method used to connect to me blog, followed by folks telling other folks about the blog.

There was a clever chap who passed through the hostel some weeks past and he told the old geezer of ways to get folks aware of me blog.  Information passed onto was most excellent and am right pleased at number of folks now visiting me blog from places not heard fromin the past.  Russia, Poland, Spain, Netherlands and more locales in South America.  Who would think that one would be read in Chile?  Must be a language school or trapped miners.  The other day, there were 33 folks from Chile on the blog reading, and some stayed for hours.  Fancy that...

What drove me over the edge was a recent post on 'Facebook'.  Clever chap asked the question; 'why is Robert like a vampire'.  Clicking on the post took the old geezer to a page that made one answer mre questions to find out the answer to the question poised initially. One never did get the answer, as more and more questions about folks on 'friends' list kept coming up.   What a complete load of rubbish.

I rather think that me mates will still know how to connect with the old geezer.  'Facebook' will just have to continue to make buckets of cash without the help of this old geezer.