Our Mayfly Vocal Stories

Introduction

I was spurred to write this because of what has happened to a couple of my stories, and I am not sure what the answer is to solve this. I have written in the past about getting what I call "The Creep", which is achieved by sharing with groups outside of Vocal and the Vocal Facebook Groups, and here are a couple of articles on the subject:

The music is PostModern Jukebox covering Radiohead's "Creep"

So What Is The Problem?

Firstly, this recent Challenge entry has not had a single read

It has been entered in a challenge and shared on my timeline and in several Facebook Vocal groups. It is not that bad, but it does stick out like a sore thumb in my stats. I am sure many Vocal Creators have unread stories, but this is unusual for me, especially with a challenge entry. It will be interesting to see if it is still at zero reads when Vocal announces the challenge winners.

The problem is that in all social media feeds the only thing that people see is what is there now. People seldom go back very far in the feeds, so after a few hours, your story usually sinks and unless people find it somewhere else, that may be the last time anyone but you sees it.

So your story's visibility in any social media feed is like a mayfly; it has a very brief life.

The other problem I have with is particular story is that is not something I can share with groups outside Vocal, so it is likely to stay on zero reads, c'est la vie.

Then there is this one, which got lots of comments and shares here:

I can't check the reads on this story because Vocal's Stats do not work properly, so I don't know if those shares and comments have turned into reads.

This is still the state of Vocal's STATS

I don't know what makes people outside of Vocal read our work instead of just liking and commenting on the image, but I know that some do work like this one, which gets a few reads every day:

Conclusion

Thank you so much for reading, and I am sorry that I have no real answers for you