title: Social Media Metrics For Dummies
author:  Leslie Poston 
description: This book was a labor of love in response to the many people who have been struggling to make sense of social media and get a real picture of how social and emerging media is working for and with them to make their goals reality.I hope it helps you figure out metrics and use that knowledge and the power it gives you to reach your goals, whatever they may be.
zlib_text: not a final version
  Problems with graphics 
  and statistics
  a reddit peer review  
  I can prove that this kind of graphic 
  is ultimately harmful to humanity. I do
  appreciate anyone trying to further 
  our knowledge, but our systems for 
  doing so are broken. Please read.
  
  This was posted in /r/europe on 22 jan 21, and it did quite well. It's titled "English Proficiency 
  in Europe." It lists the source of data as EF English Proficiency Index, 2020, and states it was 
  created using mapchart. The author only refers to himself using a reddit profile and thereby 
  remains anonymous. 9 hours after posting the post has received 10,000 upvotes and is still 
  blowing up rapidly. It's received 8 awards: one helpful award, three wholesome awards, two 
  silver awards, and two hugs awards. The wholesome and hugs awards are quite frankly, 
  straight up creepy, because they mean people have a personal investment in this. This makes 
  them feel like they're talking to a friend: someone who likes them and makes