The other day the Coaching Volleyball group on Facebook hit 100,000 members. That’s a figure I have a hard time wrapping my head around, to be honest. I started the group 10 years or so ago. Definitely never imaged it would ever get this big!
Honestly, for the first few years the group was pretty much dormant. There were some technical issues with it, so most of my focus was on the Facebook page instead. I can’t remember when it happened, but at some point the Group really took off, way surpassing the Page. Maybe changes in how FB does things has something to do with it. I don’t know.
The really wild part of all this is that it was only about 15 months ago – on the 10th anniversary of the blog’s first post – that I noted the Group had just under 50,000 members. That means it’s added over 50,000 new members since then!
The English have a good term for how I feel seeing that – gobsmacked. It means dumbfounded. That’s definitely me.
Now, to be fair, the group doesn’t have 100k active members. I pulled up some stats. From July 1st to September 27th – so nearly 3 months – there were about 10,000 people who posted and/or commented. It was likely a bit higher than that because apparently there was a glitch and I’m not seeing anything for about 2 weeks in that period, but close enough.
Let me tell you, even 10k active members keeps me quite busy as a moderator.
And get this. In that same time frame, FB says over 1 million people viewed the group. How crazy is that!?
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