“Publish on social media? No sir, that’s for them fancy lads.”
You are NOT reading this on Facebook.
Or Instagram.
Or Twitter.
Or any of a million other social media platforms sprouting up, dying, then sprouting back up, like poisonous mushrooms clinging to life.
If you don’t like something I wrote here, on my blog, to dismiss it with an arch, tossed-off “Well, I don’t have social media” proves only one thing.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what I have been doing for the past 11 years on Coupeville Sports.
Because none of the 10,176 articles I have written have ever been published on “social media.”
Like ZERO, ZIP, NADA.
Zuckerberg, and Musk, and their buddies don’t make any money off me.
After I publish a story HERE, I post a LINK to said story on Facebook and Twitter, to drive readers to my actual site.
So, yes, it’s there on social media where readers often then share the LINK, or comment on the LINK.
But a huge chunk of my readership doesn’t have social media, even the snarky ones, and it doesn’t matter, because they come directly to my blog.
You know, that place where all my articles are actually printed.
But I get it.
While Coupeville Sports is overwhelmingly positive in its coverage, there are articles which people don’t like.
When something provokes, that discussion often plays out on social media, which is the 2023 replacement for people meeting and talking in person at Videoville and Miriam’s Espresso.
Social media is the frickin’ Wild West, with people shooting off opinions like they’re gunslingers. Sometimes things get pretty dang funky.
If I was a school administrator, I’m sure I’d also want to avoid the whole mess if possible.
So, it’s a good thing I don’t publish stories on social media sites.
Makes it easy for the big bosses to monitor my written output without having to sink into the swamp.
But, as they do so, it’s always good for them to remember something else.
As it very clearly states in my “Who’s responsible for this?” section, I am NOT an employee of the Coupeville School District.
Never have been.
You ain’t never paid me a cent, and I am NOT your PR flack.
Probably should have gone that route. Might have my indoor/outdoor swimming pool by now.
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