Six Months Since Starting Note, the Anxiety of Being Seen by No One ~What Is Your Like Rate?~

Hello, I'm Maa.

I woke up in the morning feeling very unpleasant.

At the same time, I thought.

Isn't this...

a dream stemming from my current anxiety about my own note?

And────

It has been six months since I started note, and about four months since I started in earnest after becoming a semi-freelancer.

I've written a fair number of articles, but to be honest, I feel the difficulty of paid notes and sometimes feel anxious about whether they are really being read.

Sometimes I write an article I've poured my heart into, only for it to be met with silence, or for the views not to grow.

I suddenly thought I would try to analyze my note with numbers.

Since I'm a major liberal arts person and bad at math and arithmetic, I'll have AI do the tedious calculations! You're good at this kind of thing, right?

So, I had it analyzed.

1. Views proportional to quantity

The first thing you can see from this is that views grow in proportion to quantity.

“Well, of course,”as Professor Oak might say (Pokémon OP), but while I was mass-producing articles, I also had some anxiety on the other hand.

That's because I was concerned that the quality might drop as I increased the quantity. Of course, I was posting with a certain quality line decided within myself.

However, when I actually opened the lid, perhaps because my writing rhythm had settled, the likes for each article increased, and the reactions improved. I think it's also a big factor that by writing a large quantity, the way to structure articles became ingrained in my body, reducing the time I spent hesitating. As a result, I feel that a phenomenon occurred where both quantity and like rate increased at the same time. Thinking about it that way, I realized that “increasing quantity doesn't necessarily mean quality drops.” Rather, there are times when quality improves because you get used to it by doing a large quantity. The numbers taught me that.

2. A surprisingly (?) good like rate

I hadn't really paid much attention to this like rate until now. Of course, every time I got a notification for a like, I thought, 'Oh, that's nice,' and gratefully accepted it, but it seems the standard for like rates on note is something like this. This isn't an official announcement, so it's just for reference.

Comparing this to my own numbers...

My like rate of 19.4% in July is close to the level of the 'highly specialized niche articles (15-20%)' mentioned above, which could be said to be proof that my content on civil servants and mental health is really hitting the mark.

The 11-14% from March to May also exceeded the average of 5-10%, so those are definitely not bad numbers.

So, these are very grateful results.
Thinking about it that way, I think I can be confident about receiving this many likes.

With that said, as I wrote at the beginning, I don't need to feel down about whether I'm not being read, and I was able to think, 'I'll keep writing in this style!'

Moving forward, I hope to write articles that can garner even more likes and comments.

See you then.