Creepy Foot Obsession

I haven’t done anything to promote my blog other than post links on Facebook so my friends can click a link when they’ve had their fill of other people’s vacation photos but aren’t quite up to reading a real book.   It took me awhile to get used to the idea of anyone, let alone strangers, reading my babble, but now that I’ve put it out there, I like having readers.  I’m just not sure I’m comfortable with the kinds of new readers that I seem to attract.

I can’t see who is reading what, but I can see stats of which posts get more reads and how people are linking to the site.   Most people link from my Facebook posts, but more than a handful come from Google searches.   The vast majority (almost all) of those search terms involve “feet” and that is more than a little disturbing.

I like to think that these “cute feet” searchers are people like me – moms who are nostalgic for their own baby’s once-sweet little feet.   If that is how you got here, Welcome!  It’s true…they do grow up too fast.

But I am guessing a lot of these “hits” are actually foot fetish people like that football coach who was outed posting YouTube videos of his wife’s feet.  In the wake of Weiner-Gate, his videos seem kind of innocent, but all of this tech-exploitation weirdness gives me the creeps.  So, if you are looking at that photo of my kid’s giant stinky flat feet and thinking anything other than “yuck,” please go back to your dark little cave and get ready for your soon-to-be-scheduled blind date with Dateline-NBC.