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What’s expected to happen does not always.

This happens a lot in sports.

It is probably best to expect the unexpected when wagering.

I’m talking to you Baltimore Ravens’ pickers.

And at least for the first quarter of today’s game, I’m also speaking to you, Kansas City Chiefs favorers.

I took a recent gamble not on a football game but on the merits of having a Facebook page for auto-posting of my blog posts to Facebook.

For at least a year, I want to say longer, Facebook stopped permitting auto-posting of blog posts to an individual, personal account. You could still manually post new stories, but that defeated the whole beauty of what WordPress has to offer–the ability to not need to log in to your Facebook page to publicize one of your articles.

I continued to manually post but occasionally I forgot.

Considering I don’t spend much time on Facebook anymore, I may have erred when I decided to create a page for hittingthesweetspot by bobskelley at bobskelley.com on Facebook.

I say this because I’d rather not abuse my Facebook friends by requesting they like the new page.

But I will after I post this.

Not really bothering Facebook friends

I thought of how back in the day I used to ask my friends to come to see whatever band I was playing in. Sometimes, friends were the only members of the listening audience in the club. That’s how the music business is, though.

In the case of this blog and using the new Facebook page that accommodates auto-posting, I will ask my Facebook friends to like the page.

This is nothing different from my being asked to like pages and I have tried to like them to support my Facebook friends.

Can your likes make a difference?

So, now we’ll see who really truly likes this stuff and in the process discover who my true blue Facebook friends are.

So, have I erred by creating the new Facebook page for the purposes of promoting this blog?

Only time will tell.

It kind of reminds me of popularity contests.

I was never voted most popular.

And I don’t want to be now.

I revel in my relative anonymity as that is one of the best gifts the universe has ever bequeathed me.

Some self-help gurus say you have to be ready and receptive to change and new things.

They say change is scary and sometimes it is–especially the prospect of change.

Social media has largely left me indifferent and unsocial regarding its benefits.

I suppose I just can’t get past what a time suck it is.

And since I have less time ahead than behind me, how efficient I am with my time is one of my considerations when I choose not to utilize social media in such a fashion that it becomes where I spend any significant time.

Some would suggest I lower my expectations of Facebook likes when I finally request them from the masses that are my Facebook friends.

My curiosity is getting the best of me.

I’m late to the Facebook like request table.

But I’m also thinking better late than never.