The Bible: Second Most Engaging Page on Facebook

The world may reject anything to do with the Gospel, but apparently the rules are different on Facebook. According to The Unofficial Facebook Blog, The Bible is the second most engaging page on Facebook at the point of writing this article, on September 6th.

According to the post, the Bible has over eight million fans (8,110,556 to be precise). Not that impressive, if you compare it to names well known in popular culture.

We're not talking about how many "likes" the page has though - we're talking about engagement. The point of this article is how much it is keeping people's attention regularly.

The sixty-six books of God's word does well in that category. It's second only to "Jesus Daily" in interactions.

What interactions you're asking? Interactions on Facebook are simple things such as clicking "like" on a post (status update, photo, video etc) or comments. Assessing interactions is a good way of knowing what people are doing on Facebook, though it isn't totally accurate. They may be doing very different things on their own personal profiles (and their friends' profiles and groups).

According to the statistics from All Facebook, there are just over four million interactions with Jesus Daily this week. A quarter of them interact with The Bible.

It's amazing though, some of the mega superstars that have captured the attention of popular media haven't been able to keep enough people engaged on their pages.

Here are some interesting facts:

Manchester United is fourth with 835, 017 interactions.

Justin Bieber is sixth with 680,882 interactions.

Lady Gaga came in seventh with 566,455 interactions.

After comparing it to the results from last week, the blog said: "A three place improvement for Joyce Meyer Ministries demonstrates the non-profit’s growing interactive social presence; 444,158 likers place the page in 12th."

Hopefully this means that more people are reading the bible. I hope that's true for you, in reading this. Why not leave a comment, and tell us what you read today?

Written by :

Maurice Burke

 

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