“You like me! You really like me!” Like Julia Roberts in 2006, we were thrilled last week to cross the milestone of 1,000 Facebook friends (up from 807 in August). And we were interested to learn about the diversity of our online friends, such as:
- 68% are women
- 37 countries, led by Costa Rica (460), US (443) and Canada (34)
- 10 languages, led by English (627) and Spanish (361)
- Most popular cities outside Costa Rica: New York, Austin, Philadelphia, Seattle, Arlington and London (UK)
- Pretty even age distribution (see graph below)
And perhaps most importantly, our “post reach” is growing. That is an indicator of how many people actually get to see our posts – Facebook only shows it to a limited number of our followers, then increases that release as more people like, share, and comment on it (so please do that!) Our most popular posts of the past year have been:
- Staff photo – 2,300
- Photo of our outdoor meeting – 1,700
- Photo of Marisella – 1,500
- Benito Guindon teaching about puma safety – 1,300
- Thanksgiving Day activities – 1,300
- Heather Livingston, volunteer extraordinaire – 1,200
- Celebration of 100 days – 1,100
Thank you to everyone for following these blogs and our facebook posts, and for sharing/liking/commenting to make sure they reach even more friends. You bring diversity, fresh perspective, and creative ways of supporting Monteverde Friends School.