Ooh, Visitor Stats...Shiny!

[red_satin_doll]

The other day I finally decided to check out that "My Guests" function on LJ and realized, dear goddess, I'm becoming one of THOSE people.  A Stats Hussy.  (As my friend Lady M told me years ago, "A whore does it for money, a hussy does it for free.")  Not that there's anything wrong with that, or anything.

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[snogged.livejournal.com]

I agree that it can be fun to check out stats some times. :)

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Does it make a difference to you re: how much you write and post?

I have to admit I get a particular charge out of seeing names from my flist pop up there who I haven't talked to in a while or specifically pimped a post to, but they're looking in anyway whether they comment or not. (In addition to the folks with their identities hidden.) It reminds me of gabrielleabelle's meta celebrating "lurkers" a couple years back (have you read it?)

[snogged.livejournal.com]

I think I have read that post about lurkers. It's a good one.

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I have read that post about lurkers. It's a good one.

Indeed - I re-read it recently and agreed with her 100%.

The irony is that a couple of days after I posted this, I remembered that a year ago as an admin on the local co-op FB page and a writer for it, I was very invested in the page stats (esp watching them double w/in a year) and am still when I put up a post and see that 300-700 people "saw it", some who have never shopped at our store.

I think it's a little different here though - more personal, more "me".