Apparently last month I attracted more visitors than ever to this site. I’m not sure that’s really representative of anything, since I think of my readership as “Russian Spambots + Statistical Noise”. Increased traffic at this level graduates me at best from “Barely Exists” to “Barely Exists plus a couple people Googled you”. Maybe if I blogged more…
The top search terms for my page nearly all relate to the Auditions bulletin board; which I think of as a real positive because it means that in this massive pile of crazy known as The Web I actually found something within my ability to do that people find useful and that no one else was really doing. Think about that honestly for a bit and realize how rarely we hit that combo shot anywhere in life.
I think part of my anonymity here is that I pretty much defy every habit you’re supposed to have to draw traffic. I don’t write about politics, or celebrity vaginas – not for lack of interest in those things, mind you, but because I see nothing enriching for me personally about writing about them. I don’t Instagram. My posts are long. I don’t pick fights, and very rarely just pass along stuff that’s already being passed around. I kind of figure I’m a couple circles out from the cool Internet people; and by the time I hear about something, it’s already been memed out. Seriously – it took me like five years to learn about Leroy Jenkins.
Still, I see ongoing usefulness in this outpost; and goodness knows if I ever get to the next level of success along one of my career tracks it could become far more useful. I wonder how many people are willing to blog and build a web profile even with such clarity about the fact that no one’s paying attention? But I like having this to represent me to the general world. My Facebook is for my friends only, so this is effectively the “Public Public” me, as opposed to the “Private Public” me represented by that insidious FB timeline.
Interesting – Public Public and Private Public. I feel like there’s something to be learned from those terms.