“Was it me?”

—Yrs Trly posts links to these blogs on his Facebook.
That’s because some readers aren’t in my Ne’er-Do-Well list, which is those to whom I e-mail blog-links.
I usually Facebook the same time I publish a blog. It takes maybe 20 seconds.
I do the Ne’er-Do-Well e-mail the next day — 2-3 minutes. That allows me to see if anyone opened my blog from Facebook.
Every time someone opens my blog, BlogSpot (my blog service) tells me. It doesn’t tell me who or how, but I Facebook the night before I Ne’er-Do-Well.
Facebook may get 0-2 hits, which I see the next day when I do the Ne’er-Do-Well e-mail.
I Facebooked a blog-link the other night, and no hits the next morning. I have readers not in my Ne’er-Do-Well list, plus Ne’er-Do-Wells who open my Facebook link as “friends.”
I don’t know how Facebook works, nor do I care. I think I could limit FB “notifications,” but let ‘er fly!
Facebook is so complicated it’s not worth the trouble. Plus they like to change things unannounced.
So zero Facebook hits the following morning, and I had minor editing to do. Usually those edits are so minuscule it’s not worth worrying about Facebookers who read my blog before editing.
Fixes complete I noticed BlogSpot was showing me one hit instead of zero.
“Was that me?”
I don’t think MY firing up a blog is a hit. It wasn’t before.
At 8 a.m. eastern some faraway ”friend”may be firing up my blog. I also put a link to that blog into an e-mail to an old friend. He refuses to Facebook. “I have enough friends.”
“Was it me?”
“What, me worry?”
Alfred E. Neuman ascendent!
I have a Facebook “friend” (thank you Mark!), who gave up watching the news.
I can’t do it. How can I miss the latest 3 a.m. tweet from the Great White Throne?

• “Mark” is Mark Zuckerberg, founder and head-honcho of Facebook.